Events

Guy Hamilton-Smith on THE AGONY & THE ECSTASY OF #METOO: THE HIDDEN COSTS OF RELIANCE ON CARCERAL POLITICS

Guy Hamilton-Smith is a legal fellow with the Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law, a contributing…Read More +

CANCELLED Lisa Kerr on Equality Arrives to Sentencing

Dr. Lisa Kerr JD (UBC), LLM, JSD (New York University) is Assistant Professor at Queen’s University, where she is the Director of the Criminal…Read More +

Guy Ben-Porat on Civic Lessons: Police, Minorities and citizenship

Abstract: The encounters between police and ordinary people are a display of citizenship, in its complexities and contradictions. Police discretion on whom to stop…Read More +

CANCELLED Alexandra Natapoff on “Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal.”

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE Alexandra Natapoff is an award-winning legal scholar and criminal justice expert.  A 2016 Guggenheim Fellow,…Read More +

Paul Butler on “Prison Abolition, and a Mule”

Paul Butler is the Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a legal analyst on MSNBC.  During the 2017-18 academic…Read More +

Miguel de Figueiredo on “Corruption, Policy, Candidate Attributes, and the Voter’s Decision: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment”

Miguel de Figueiredo’s research is broadly focused on accountability and compliance in challenging institutional and behavioral settings. His writing and teaching focuses on the…Read More +