Stanford Criminal Justice Center (SCJC)
Stanford Criminal Justice Center (SCJC)
Criminal Justice Welcome Reception: October 7, 2025
Room offsiteThe Stanford Criminal Justice Center invites you to meet and greet faculty, staff, local alumni, and other students who share criminal justice interests. Thomas Nosewicz ('08), Legal Director for the California Committee on the Revision of the Penal Code, will provide brief remarks. This event will take place in Professor Sklansky's backyard. The address will […]
Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy: October 8, 2025
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin Judith Resnik, in discussion with Pam Karlan and David Sklansky. Can prisons escape their ties to plantations and concentration camps? This wholly original book by Judith Resnik explores the history of punishment inside prisons and the rules that organize prisons. Resnik charts the invention of the corrections profession that imposed radical restrictions on human movement […]
Cinematic Capital: Hollywood and the Libidinal Economy of Financial Crime: October 15, 2025
Room offsiteProfessor Fabio Vighi (Cardiff University) examines how Hollywood cinema, in the wake of financial capitalism, portrays capital as symptom. How does Hollywood cinema recalibrate surplus value as surplus jouissance? How does the criminal legal system feed into and facilitate the structure of fantasy that produces this surplus jouissance? Professor Vighi writes and teaches on cinema […]
The Public Defense Crisis and the Future of the Sixth Amendment: January 15
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSixty-three years ago, on January 15, 1963, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963). As we reflect on the meaning of the Sixth Amendment in today's reality, an esteemed and experienced panel of experts will consider the legacy of Gideon and its implications on the legal […]
Legal Perspectives on the Federal Crackdown in Minnesota: January 28
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin SLS Professors Rabia Belt, Evelyn Douek, Lucas Guttentag, Pam Karlan, Fred Smith, Jayashri Srikantiah, and Bob Weisberg for a discussion on the federal crackdown in Minnesota. Students will have an opportunity to hear from and ask questions of faculty experts on legal issues including immigration, federalism, the First Amendment, civil and criminal liability, and […]
Rule of Law Speaker Series: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser: February 17
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesWatch the event State attorneys general are the primary legal officers of their states, responsible for upholding the rule of law within the state. As Attorney General of Colorado, Phil Weiser has forcefully advanced this role, filing multiple lawsuits against the federal government for violating both statutory and constitutional law across a range of issues. […]
The Perfect Neighbor: A Screening with Director Geeta Gandbhir: February 25
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin us for a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Perfect Neighbor and a discussion with award-winning filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir and producer Nikon Kwantu in conversation with Professor Fred Smith. Told almost entirely through recovered police bodycam footage, the new Netflix documentary reveals the fatal consequences that can occur when individuals feel emboldened by the […]
Private Policing and Racial Power: A Discussion with Professor Ekow Yankah: April 8
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin Criminal Law Society, Stanford Criminal Justice Center, Stanford Racial Justice Center, Stanford Critical Legal Studies for a timely and thought-provoking conversation with Professor Ekow N. Yankah from the University of Michigan, as he discusses his recent Stanford Law Review article examining the relationship between criminal law and private racist violence. In his work, Professor […]
Voices from the Jury Box: A Homicide Trial Story: April 9
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis event is open to the on-campus Stanford Law School community (faculty, students, staff). Join us for a discussion between SLS staff member Joe Neto and Professor Bob Weisberg on Joe's recent service as the foreperson of a local murder trial. Joe will share his experience, and Professor Weisberg will provide legal context.