Anatomy of Justice: An Honest Conversation on the Criminal Justice System in 2017
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
Organizer
Where
Washington College of Law
4300 Nebraska Avenue, NW
Washington DC
20016