Workshop 4: Teaching law to scientists, and science for the law curriculum: Forensic evidence

Michael Bromby (Glasgow Caledonian University) and Fiona Raitt (University of Dundee)

This workshop was part of the 2010 conference Moving forward: Legal education in Scotland

biographies

Biographies

Michael Bromby is employed as a reader in law and was previously a research fellow with the Joseph Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning. The Centre is based at the School of Law and the School of Mathematics at The University of Edinburgh the Law Department at Glasgow Caledonian University, and in association with the Lothian and Borders Police Forensic Laboratories.

Michael graduated from the University of Stirling with BSc (Hons) in Molecular and Cell Biology and subsequently from Edinburgh University with an LLM, specialising in Medical Jurisprudence, Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence & Legal Reasoning. He also holds a Diploma in Forensic Medical Sciences from The Society of Apothecaries and Glasgow University and is a member of the Institute of Educational Assessors. Prior to his current appointment, Michael was a technical consultant for a company specialising in police software solutions and facial composite systems.

As an Executive Member of the British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association, Michael organised the 23rd Annual Conference at Glasgow Caledonian University. Michael also does work for the UK Centre for Legal Education, including the blog Digital Directions.

Professor Fiona Raitt was appointed Professor of Evidence and Social Justice in 2005. She was previously a Senior Lecturer in the School having been Director of the Diploma in Legal Practice from 1993-2000. She has thirteen years’ experience as a practising solicitor in the public and private sectors. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University (2002) and the University of British Columbia (2004). She is a member of the Criminal Courts Rules Council and was an examiner for the Law Society of Scotland from 2003-2008.

She is a member of the Access to Justice Committee of the Law Society of Scotland, and two Scottish Government groups concerned with Vulnerable Witnesses: the Vulnerable Witnesses Practitioners Forum, and the sub-group on witness communication, part of the Witness Issues Group. She is a member of the Steering Group for the Scottish Civil Justice Network, a Consortium involving 5 universities and a public policy partner, funded by the Scottish Funding Council.

Last Modified: 10 March 2011