Barry C. Scheck is a Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. In his forty-one years on the Cardozo faculty, he served as the Director of Clinical Education, Co-Director of the Trial Advocacy Programs, and the Jacob Burns Center for the Study of Law and Ethics. He worked for three-years as a staff attorney at The Legal Aid Society in New York City before joining the faculty at Cardozo. Barry C. Scheck and his colleague Peter Neufeld, Co-Founded and are Special Counsel at the Innocence Project, an independent nonprofit organization closely affiliated with Cardozo Law School, which uses DNA evidence to exonerate the wrongly convicted. He has published extensively in these areas, including a book with Jim Dwyer and Peter Neufeld entitled, Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong And How To Make It Right. He has served in prominent positions in many bar associations, including the presidency of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (2004-2005). He is a former Commissioner (1994-2016) on New York State’s Forensic Science Review Board, a body that regulates all crime and forensic DNA laboratories in the state. He is currently a member of the Legal Resource Committee of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. From 1998-2000, he served on the National Institute of Justice's Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. In 2005, he was a member of the American Judicature Society’s National Commission on Forensic Science and Public Policy.