April 29, 2011

BY-LAWS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF Evidence Science

The object of the International Association of Evidence Science is to promote the international development of the evidence science by encouraging collaboration among evidence scholars, lawyers and forensic scientists and the exchange of information concerning data, publications, and documents; to promote interdisciplinary and international communications; and to plan, organize and administer meetings, facilitate research and the preparation of reports, and other projects for the stimulation and advancement of these and related purposes. To achieve these objects the Association will in particular: (a) organise Congresses and international colloquia; (b) cooperate with national and multinational associations of evidence, science and law; (c) provide for the publication of an information bulletin concerning the activities of the association, the proceedings at Congresses and colloquia and any other work considered by the executive committee to further the objects of the association.

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ICELFS

Evidence science is a comprehensive scientific theory and methodology which combing the method of natural science and social science to study the evidence collection, forensic service technology, ascertaining the fact of cases and the legal application. Evidence science shows an irreplaceable role on achieving rule of law and judicial justice, which also has more and more perspective on public service. In order to promote international academic exchanges and interdisciplinary studies on evidence science, the Key Laboratory for Evidence Science of Ministry of Education (China University of Political Science and Law) has hosted the first, the second and the third International Conference on Evidence Law and Forensic Science in December, 2007, July, 2009 and July, 2011. In future, the International Conference on Evidence Law and Forensic Science will be an important activity of the International Association of Evidence Science.

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December 01, 2011

Activities

According to By-laws of the International Association of Evidence Science, following activities will be organized: (a) organize Congresses and international colloquia, decide where they are to be held and indicate the subjects for discussion. Congresses will be held at least every six years and colloquia at least every two years;(b)cooperate with national and multinational associations of evidence, science, and law;(c)provide for the publication of an information bulletin concerning the activities of the association, the proceedings at Congresses and colloquia and any other work considered by the executive committee to further the objects of the association.

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December 01, 2011

International Association of Evidence Science Was Formally Founded in Beijing

In the afternoon, July 17, 2011, when the 3rd International Conference on Evidence Law and Forensic Science which was hosted by Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science of China University of Political Science and Law was in session, The 1st Plenary Session of the 1st Council of the International Association of Evidence Science was held in Beijing. This plenary session was chaired by Ronald J. Allen, professor of Law School of Northwestern University in USA. Twenty two evidence law scholars and forensic scientists from China, America, Australia, Italy, Israel, Tanzania, Korea, Japan, Hungary, Vietnam, etc. took part in the session. They discussed seriously about the name of the association, object of the association, By-Laws of the association, and proposed the list of candidates of the Council of the Association.

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Alex Biedermann

Professor Alex Biedermann is associate professor at Faculty of Law, University of Lausanne. His research and teaching activities concentrate on graphical modelling for evidential reasoning and decision-making in forensic science. His work is multidisciplinary and involves forensic science, law and various topics in probability and decision theory. Professor Biedermann is multi-lingual (mother tongue is German) and his publishing and oral presentation activities cover contributions in French, English and German. Alex Biedermann graduated from the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in 2002 (Ph.D. in forensic science). He then worked (until 2010) as a forensic scientist within the Federal Department of Justice and Police in Berne (Switzerland), with a continuous collaboration in research, teaching and casework with the School of Criminal Justice of UNIL. His PhD studies (2002-2007) at UNIL focused on graphical models and probabilistic inference for evaluating scientific evidence in forensic science. Since then, he pursued several postdoctoral research projects with a statistician at the University Ca’Foscari of Venice and a philosopher of science at the IUAV University of Venice, jointly supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Italian National Research Council. Alex Biedermann was awarded a SNSF/ERC-Starting-Grant for a 5-years research project (http://wp.unil.ch/forensicdecision/), starting in 2016.