LAW72017 DNA & The Law

The journal articles relate to challenges and opportunities that may impact on the future of forensic DNA. The articles explore potential developments and their impact on the justice system.You are required in this assessment to select one of the three journal articles and to describe, analyse and critique that selected journal article. Describe means ‘to give a detailed account’ of the article, a ‘report’ or ‘recounting’ of what the work says. In other words, you are required to descriptively outline the article in question. Analyse means ‘to examine methodically and in detail, typically in order to explain or interpret it.’ In the case of the journal article you select, you are required to interpret and explore the author’s central argument(s). Critique means ‘to evaluate a theory in a detailed and analytical way’. In the case of the journal article you select, you are required to reflect on what the article says, and how it relates conceptually (and hence more broadly) to wider questions of law, property aand society. In critiquing the article, you must draw parallels, or make linkages or connections with the other two (2) journal articles.Legal scholars need to develop and acquire disciplinary specific skills of reading legal works, writing legal papers, and thinking legally. These skills may need to be applied to material from other disciplines. This assessment item therefore requires that you read all three (3) journal articles, that you write and engage in a description and analysis of the selected journal article, and lastly, that you engage in higher order thinking by critiquing what the journal article means in terms of its connections to the other two articles, and more generally in terms of its implications for the role of DNA analysis in law