Symposium on “Scientific Truths and Judicial Truth”

“The Contribution of Science and New Technologies to Forensic Expertise and Understanding the Risk of Criminal Behavior.”
School of Law and Political Science, Building 1, Lecture Hall D.

A multidisciplinary and cross-cutting exchange of perspectives can provide a more effective way to understand forensic expertise and assess 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 integration of these different perspectives. Advances in scientific techniques, as well as new technologies, are raising new questions and shedding light on issues that must be carefully assessed at the dawn of the 21st century.

Through interdisciplinary collaboration and the mutual enrichment it fosters, the conference held on December 13, 2019, at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Montpellier combines legal, psychiatric, and neuropsychiatric analyses, while also incorporating the perspectives of chemists and criminologists.
Thanks to this type of cross-disciplinary analysis spanning the social sciences, chemistry, and health sciences—which is unprecedented in its methodology from a social science perspective—the symposium will identify both avenues for further reflection and practical, concrete implications.

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

Free admission.

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