Presented by The American University Law Review
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
- Jenny Roberts, Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Scholarship, Washington College of Law
- Craig S. Lerner, Professor of Law, George Mason Antonin Scalia Law School
- Patricia Puritz, Founder and Former Executive Director, National Juvenile Defender Center
- Kristin Henning, Associate Dean for Clinics and Centers, Director for the Juvenile Justice Clinic & Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center
Death Penalty
- Ira Robbins, Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Practice & Policy Institute, Professor of Law & Justice Barnard T. Welsh Scholar, Washington College of Law
- J. Richard Broughton, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Associate Professor of Law, University of Detroit Mercy Law School
- The Honorable Timothy Lewis, Counsel, Schnader Attorneys at Law & Former Circuit Court Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Shawn Marie Armbrust, Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
- Mark MacDougall, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
- Angela J. Davis, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law
- Katheryn Russell Brown, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin Law School
- Renee McDonald Hutchins, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Law School
- Marc Mauer, Executive Director, The Sentencing Project
- Roger Fairfax, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
Bail Bonds & Fines
- Cynthia Jones, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law
- Katherine Hubbard, Attorney, Civil Rights Corps
- The Honorable Truman Morrison III, Senior Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
- 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
November 10, 2017 9:00 AM–5:30 PM American University Washington College of Law 4300 Nebraska Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20016 Yuma Building – Terrace Level – Claudio Grossman Hall, Room YT01 |