Forensic Science for Lawyers Part I
New Non-Credit Course Offering!
A Florida Bar Association Certified CLE Program in Forensic Science
The Distance Education Programs in Forensic Science announces a new course specifically designed to meet the Continuing legal Education Requirements of Florida Attorneys.
The course is certified by the Florida Bar Association for 12.5 CLE hours. Part I of the course consists of seven videotaped lectures by Professor Bernard A. Raum. As part of your tuition, you receive a free copy of Forensic Science, 2nd Edition by James and Nordby.
Open Enrollment is Now Available! Register Here
Course Description
The complete course program consists of seven video lectures in Part I and nine video lectures in Part II, all fully illustrated by PowerPoint® presentations. Part I is now available online and Part II will be online in the Spring of 2008. For part I alone, the Florida Bar Association has awarded 12.5 general Continuing Legal Education credits. Part I is also certified for 9 credits in the Criminal Appellate specialty as well as 9 credits in the Criminal Trial specialty (course number 71977). The lectures in Part II will pick up where Part I has ended and will give the attorney a complete course on the forensic sciences based upon the textbook. In creating these lectures, Professor Raum has used not only the course textbook, Forensic Science, 2nd Edition, James and Nordby, but also an extensive bibliography of noted textbooks and treatises each of which in turn was written by recognized experts in their respective fields.
Part I consists of seven Modules each for which also has an extensive accompanying video lecture by Professor Bernard A. Raum, Adjunct Professor of Forensic Evidence at the Levin College of Law, University of Florida. The first seven lectures in this series discuss the following topics which are related to chapters in the textbook:
- lecture 1. Daubert/Frye and related statutes and rules of evidence, crime scenes;
- lecture 2. death investigation;
- lecture 3. trauma/pathology;
- lecture 4. forensic anthropology;
- lecture 5. forensic odontology, entomology, and botany;
- lecture 6. biological evidence; and
- lecture 7. forensic toxicology.
Each of these lectures will be supplemented by additional written materials as important changes and additions occur in the respective areas of science. Part I will be continuously available to registrants for viewing at any time, however, individual registration passwords will only be valid for 6 months from the date of registration.
Part II will address such topics as trace evidence, DNA, eyewitness testimony, finger prints, footprints and tire prints, firearms and tool marks, questioned documents, forensic fire and explosive investigations, controlled substances, and forensic psychiatry and psychology.
A former prosecutor, Professor Raum received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Baltimore and his Master of Forensics Science degree from The George Washington University. He has previously taught in both the forensic sciences program at The George Washington University and also at the University of Baltimore, School of Law, where he created the popular course, Forensic Evidence. He is now an Adjunct Professor at the Levin College of Law, University of Florida, where he again teaches the same course, Forensic Evidence, upon which this new online program is based. He is a current member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and is active in the academy’s programs.