Join ACS for a Beyond the Doctrine panel discussing Addressing the Peril: Seeking Better Legal Outcomes for Criminalized Survivors, a recent report published by the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. The panel will feature Debbie Mukamal, Executive Director of the Center, Robert Weisberg, Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center, and SLS students Wyndham Ermini and Anna Zannetos, who contributed to the Addressing the Peril report.

The conversation will draw on work from the Regilla Project, a long-running research and policy initiative that examines how survivors of intimate partner violence are criminalized, with particular attention to women incarcerated for homicide and related offenses. Drawing on original in-prison survey research and policy analysis, the panel will explore how core criminal law doctrines governing charging decisions, homicide liability, defenses, evidence, sentencing, and parole often fail to account for the realities of abuse and trauma, and what these gaps reveal about the limits of existing criminal law frameworks for addressing survivor-defendants. Lunch will be provided.