The Intersection of Gender and Immigration: Working with Immigrant Victims
Come learn from professionals in the field about how to use your law degree to serve immigrant victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking. Lunch will be provided.
- Lecture
- Open To The Public
The Intersection of Gender and Immigration: Working with Immigrant Victims
Come learn from professionals in the field how to use your law degree to serve immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. Lunch will be served.
- Seminar
- Open To The Public
“Debating Methods in Human Rights Research”
The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is pleased to present, Siobhan McInerney-Lankford, Senior Counsel at the World Bank Legal Vice-Presidency & Hans-Otto Sano, Research Director at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Authors of Research Methods in Human Rights.
- Presentation
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
Anatomy of Justice: An Honest Conversation on the Criminal Justice System in 2017
Featuring:
A Keynote by Professor James Forman Jr. of Yale Law School, Author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Discussions on Juvenile Justice, the Death Penalty, Racial Disparities, and Bail Bonds & Fines with prominent scholars and practitioners, including:
Juvenile Justice
o Jenny Roberts, Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Scholarship, Washington College of Law
o Craig S. Lerner, Professor of Law, George Mason Antonin Scalia Law School
o Patricia Puritz, Founder and Former Executive Director, National Juvenile Defender Center
o Kristin Henning, Associate Dean for Clinics and Centers, Director for the Juvenile Justice Clinic & Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center
Death Penalty
o Ira Robbins, Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Practice & Policy Institute, Professor of Law & Justice Barnard T. Welsh Scholar, Washington College of Law
o J. Richard Broughton, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Associate Professor of Law, University of Detroit Mercy Law School
o The Honorable Timothy Lewis, Counsel, Schnader Attorneys at Law & Former Circuit Court Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
o Shawn Marie Armbrust, Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
o Mark MacDougall, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
o Angela J. Davis, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law
o Katheryn Russell Brown, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin Law School
o Renee McDonald Hutchins, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Law School
o Marc Mauer, Executive Director, The Sentencing Project
o Roger Fairfax, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
Bail Bonds & Fines
o Cynthia Jones, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law
o Katherine Hubbard, Attorney, Civil Rights Corps
o The Honorable Truman Morrison III, Senior Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
o Rachel Sottile Logvin, Vice President, Pretrial Justice Institute
Registration is free but required.
5 CLE credits will be applied for – cost of $275
Please register at www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration
- Conference
- Open To The Public, Alumni, Students AND Faculty/Staff
- CLE
Mindfulness Mondays
Join instructor Aurora Hutchinson for a mindfulness session in N100B Wellness Space (first floor of the library, to the left).
- Workshop
- Open To Students AND Faculty/Staff