Events
Solitary Confinement and the Constitution: A Conversation with Center for Constitutional Rights President Jules Lobel (with an introduction by Professor Robert Weisberg)
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesA discussion led by Jules Lobel, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which struck the landmark settlement with the state of California on behalf of prisoners held in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison.
Criminal Justice Over Coffee
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Criminal Justice Center and the Criminal Law Society for our quarterly Criminal Justice Over Coffee brunch. This quarter’s topic: Drugs, Addiction, & Criminalization Come for brunch and enjoy a panel discussion featuring: Professor Robert Weisberg, Stanford Criminal Justice Center Professor Keith Humphreys, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Susan Champion, Stanford Three Strikes Project Download Flyer RSVP
Finding a Criminal Law Job Your 1L Summer: Lunch Panel
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAre you interested in criminal law and excited to get your first taste of what criminal practice looks like during your 1L summer? Or, do you just want an interesting and substantive job that will get you lots of practical experience? This panel is for you! Come join the Criminal Law Society for a lunch time […]
Criminal Justice over Coffee
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin us for bagels and coffee for the first in a quarterly brunch series being co-sponsored by the Stanford Criminal Justice Center and Criminal Law Society. The first brunch is also being co-sponsored with the Black Law Students Association. We will have a facilitated discussion with SCJC Faculty Co-Director Professor Joan Petersilia, Professor Shirin Sinnar, […]
Design Thinking and Mass Incarceration
@ SLS: Room N102 Neukom Building, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesProfessor W. David Ball will discuss how design thinking can shape our discussions about reducing prison populations, focusing on what research would be necessary to figure out what is broken in our current system of mass incarceration and what various constituencies (citizens, prosecutors, judges, corrections officials, legislators, and those caught up in the justice system) might need or […]
Criminal Law Society Open Meeting
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Criminal Law Society board would like to invite all CLS members or other students interested in criminal law on campus to discuss upcoming events and plans for the rest of the year. Related Media
As Goes California, So Goes the Nation? The Impact of California’s Recent Prison Reform Initiatives
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesA Discussion Featuring: George Gascon, District Attorney, San Francisco Lenore Anderson, Executive Director, Californians for Safety and Justice Michael Romano, Director, Stanford's Three Strikes Project Moderated by Professor Robert Weisberg Co-sponsored by the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest, and the Criminal Law Society. Following the passage of CA […]
Alumni Mentor-in-Residence: Lauren Brady
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCo-Sponsored by the Criminal Law Society Lauren Brady, JD '06 is a deputy public defender and the director of the Legal Educational Advocacy Project (LEAP) at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office. LEAP is a first-of-its-kind program which provides legal and social work services in the areas of school discipline, special education, and truancy to […]
Forced Sterilization and Reproductive Justice in Prison/Jail
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join CLS and LSRJ for a lunchtime discussion with Dr. Carolyn Sufrin about the intersection of reproductive justice and criminal justice. Dr. Carolyn Sufrin is an Assistant Professor in the Ob/Gyn Department at the University of California, San Francisco. She focuses on expanding access to reproductive health care for incarcerated women. To this end, […]
Screening of American Violet
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSponsored by the Criminal Law Society Lunch provided. Set in the midst of the 2000 presidential election, American Violet tells the story of a young mother named Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie), a 24 year-old African-American single mother of four living in the town of Melody (based on Hearne, Texas, where the real incident took place). […]
Head, Heart and Soul of Restorative Justice
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Criminal Law Society presents a lunch time event on Restorative Justice, its effectiveness and the role it can play it shoudl play in our society. Lunch served to attendees! Speakers: Camille Perrier Depeursinge: A current LLM and a Swiss lawyer. During her PH.D work, she studied restorative justice and specifically victim-offender mediation. She also […]
Restorative Policing
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesLessons from Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Police Officer Keld Hove comes to Stanford to discuss the Restorative Policing program he helped create in Santa Barbara. He works in a Restorative Court, built to keep the homeless population of Santa Barbara City from cycling through the criminal justice system. He will discuss what problems police departments […]
Criminal Law Society General Meeting
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesGeneral Meeting to discuss upcoming events and board elections for next year. Related Media
Litigating California’s Prisons after SCOTUS intervention
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe perils and promise of institutional reform litigation Michael W. Bien, founding partner of Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld and lead counsel in the landmark Supreme Corut decision that mandated a steep reduction in California's prison population, will speak about how the litigation has progressed since the Brown v. Plata decision in 2011. Among other […]
The Future of Criminal Law at Stanford
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesYour Ideas, Served up with Wine and Cheese The direction of the study and practice of criminal law at Stanford over the next couple of years is not settled; you can and should weigh in. Professors will be stopping by to talk about their upcoming projects and to hear from students about where we want […]
Volunteering with the Reset Foundation -INFO SESSION
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCome learn about volunteer project with the Reset Foundation WHAT IS THE RESET FOUNDATION: By creating an alternative model of incarceration centered on learning, education, and reentry, The Reset Foundation will allow sentenced young adults to reset their life trajectories—to envision and achieve futures of meaning, opportunity, and purpose—thus enabling communities to break the cycle […]
Scenes of a Crime Documentary Viewing
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesDocumentary on Police Interrogation The Stanford Criminal Law Society will be screening the documentary Scenes of a Crime (a filim by Grover Babcock and Blue Hadaegh). The documentary focuses on police interrogation techniques, and how we should view the confessions they extract. Related Media
Money, Markets, and Mistakes: The History of Crack – Lunch Talk with Prof. Mark Osler
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCome hear Professor Mark Osler address the growth of crack and our nation's failure to address it as a business rather than a moral scourge. Professor Mark Osler is a former federal prosecutor whose work has consistently confronted the problem of inflexibility in sentencing and corrections. As lead counsel he won the Spears v. United […]
Criminal Law Society’s Welcome Dinner
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCLS invites everyone to welcome the 1Ls over dinner. Related Media
Bake sale for Crime Victims in honor of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week
@ SLS: Cooley Courtyard 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease come to the courtyard to enjoy the tastiest baked goods SLS has to offer. All proceeds will go to CORA. CORA is the only agency in San Mateo County with the sole purpose of serving victims/survivors of domestic violence/abuse. We are a multicultural agency committed to serving victims/survivors, regardless of age, ethnicity/race, financial status, […]
Screening of “American Violet”
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAmerican Violet tells the story of Dee Roberts, a 24-year old African American single mother of four, living in the town of Melody. One day, while Dee is working a shift at the local diner, the powerful local district attorney leads a drug bust, sweeping up Dee and other members of her housing project. Indicted […]
Criminal Law Journal Interest Meeting
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAbout Criminal Law Journal Interest meeting Related Media
A Discussion on Ruiz v. Brown
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe case was class action lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement at Pelican Bay Special Housing Unit (SHU). Related Media
Criminal Law Society Membership Meeting
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesA meeting for the members of the Criminal Law Society to discuss plans for the Winter Quarter. Related Media
Chesa Boudin on “From Jail to Yale: Children’s Personal and Legal Obstacles to a Relationship with their Incarcerated Parents”
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesNeukom Faculty Lounge Neukom Faculty Lounge -- Chesa Boudin will speak about the relevance of defendants' children to sentencing and visitation decisions. Traditionally, courts and advocates have considered questions of a prisoner's contact with his or her children through the frame of prisoner's rights. Boudin argues that these questions should instead be approached through the […]