Barry Scheck Barry Scheck is a Clinical Law Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Scheck both taught and defended criminal cases.  Professor Scheck is known for his landmark litigation setting standards for forensic applications of DNA technology. Since 1988, his and Peter Neufeld’s work in this area have shaped the course of case law across the country and led to an influential study by the National Academy of Sciences on forensic DNA testing, as well as important state and federal legislation. Professor Scheck is a commissioner on New York’s Forensic Science Review Board, a body that regulates all of the state’s crime and forensic DNA laboratories. He serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and on the National Institute of Justice’s Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. In addition to the work he has done through Cardozo’s Innocence Project, which has represented nearly three dozen men who were exonerated through post-conviction DNA testing Scheck has represented defendants such as battered women Hedda Nussbaum, O.J. Simpson, au pair Louise Woodward, and the assault case of Abner Louima.

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