Symposium on “Scientific Truths and Judicial Truth”

"The contribution of science and new technologies to forensic expertise and knowledge of the risk of criminal behavior."
Faculty of Law and Political Science, Building 1, Lecture Hall D.

A multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary exchange of perspectives can enable a more effective understanding of forensic expertise and knowledge of the risk of criminal behavior. In this sense, forensic expertise, based on a combination of legal disciplines, forensic psychiatry, and forensic chemistry, relies on the necessary confrontation of these different perspectives. Advances in scientific techniques and new technologies are raising new questions and shedding new light on the subject, which is important to consider at the beginning of the 21st century.

By bringing together different disciplines and the mutual enrichment that this allows, the symposium organized on December 13, 2019, at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Montpellier combines legal, psychiatric, and neuropsychiatric analyses and includes the perspectives of chemists and criminologists.
Thanks to this type of cross-disciplinary analysis between the social sciences, chemistry, and biology/health, which is unprecedented in its methodology from a social science perspective, both avenues for reflection and practical, concrete effects will be identified.

The symposium will bring together speakers from these diverse disciplines.
It is organized by the Montpellier Criminal Law Team (EDPM/UMR 5815 UM/CNRS Dynamiques du droit), the Max Mousseron Biomolecules Institute (IBMM), INSERM Unit 1061, and CRIAVS-LR, Montpellier University Hospital.

Free admission.

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