What crimes count as “violent,” and what significance does that have?  In his new book, A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crime and What It Means for Justice, Stanford Law School Professor David Sklansky argues that these are moral and political questions and that the answers our legal system has provided have contributed to mass incarceration, police brutality, and other pathologies of contemporary criminal justice.

Join us for a panel discussion of these issues, sponsored by Stanford Law School, the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, and the Stanford Center for Comparative Studies on Race & Ethnicity, with comments from attorney and restorative justice practitioner sujatha baliga, Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of the California Supreme Court, Adam Serwer of The Atlantic, as well as Professor Sklansky. Stanford Law School Professor Rabia Belt will moderate the discussion.

Copies of the book are available at the Stanford Bookstore and online from Harvard University Press, Amazon, and Bookshop.

Speakers:

	sujutha baliga Attorney and Restorative Justice Practitioner
	Rabia Belt Associate Professor of Law and History by courtesy, Stanford University
	Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California
	Adam Serwer Staff Writer, The Atlantic
	David Sklansky Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, Stanford University

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