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Qualified Immunity
This discussion will outline the history of qualified immunity and explain whether this protection can ever be eliminated. Speakers will discuss the real-world application of the protection and standard of proof for juries. Attendees will be encouraged to think about what America would look like without qualified immunity. Guest speakers will be Fred Smith (SLS […]
A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crime and What It Means for Justice
OnlineJoin the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, Stanford Center for Comparative Studies on Race and Ethnicity and Stanford Law School, to an interactive panel to discuss A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crime and What It Means for Justice, Stanford Law School Professor and former federal prosecutor David Alan Sklansky’s book.
Panel Discussion on the Derek Chauvin Guilty Verdict
OnlinePlease join us for a panel discussion via Zoom on the Derek Chauvin verdict. We acknowledge that the killing of George Floyd and the events leading to and including the trial of former police officer Chauvin are traumatic for many in our community. Our speakers are experts in criminal and civil rights law. They will […]
Understanding Crime Rates: How Should Cities Measure and Respond to Victimization
OnlineTraditional ways of discussing the “crime rate” are inadequate and antiquated given the complexities of how crime affects specific communities—particularly communities of color. During this discussion, a diverse set of stakeholders will explore how to approach crime policy—at the local, state, and federal levels—in more refined and nuanced ways. The panel will also highlight the […]
Stanford Criminal Justice Center Regilla Project Lunch
@ SLS: Cooley Courtyard 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCome learn about the Regilla Project, the research project the Stanford Criminal Justice Center is leading to analyze how many women are incarcerated in the United States for killing their abusers, and how you can get involved in it. The Center will start data collection in CA prisons in winter 2022 and is looking to […]
Imagining Justice: American Indian Tribal Laws of Criminal Responsibility
OnlineElizabeth A. Reese, Yunpoví (Tewa: Willow Flower) is a scholar of American Indian tribal law, federal Indian law, and constitutional law focusing on the intersection of identity, race, citizenship, and government structure. Her scholarship examines the way government structures, citizen identity, and the history that is taught in schools, can impact the rights and powers […]
When a Witness Recants: Legal and Ethical Duties Arising from Wrongful Convictions
OnlineIn her recent New Yorker article, staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman wrote about a criminal case from Baltimore in which a 14-year-old provided eyewitness testimony in a murder trial resulting in the convictions of three innocent boys. Thirty-six years later, the witness recanted. Join us for a conversation with the writer and legal experts to discuss the legal […]
Why The Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free, and Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis event is open to the Stanford Community only. Join the Stanford Criminal Justice Center for a discussion with U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York Jed […]
Data-Driven Policing: Abolition and Reform
Zoom (virtual location)This event is open to the Stanford Law School community only. Shakeer Rahman is an attorney and community organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, an abolitionist group working to build community resistance to police technologies. His work focuses on LAPD's use of data as well as "community policing" strategies to select people and places for targeted policing. […]
Santa Clara County District Attorney Candidate Debate
@ Stanford: CEMEX AuditoriumTo attend in person, register using the form below. To attend via live stream, register HERE. Join us for an engaged debate with the three candidates running to be the Santa Clara District Attorney: challenger Daniel Chung; challenger Sajid Khan; and incumbent Jeff Rosen. The primary election will take place on June 7, 2022 so […]
The Right to a Jury Trial: A Crime on the Bayou Film Screening with Remarks from Pamela Karlan and Discussion with Gary Duncan
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease register for the event using the form below.
Stanford Criminal Justice Center Welcome Reception
Room offsiteNote: This event is open to the Stanford Law School community (students, staff, and faculty) only. Interested in criminal law and criminal justice issues? Join us for a Welcome Reception to launch the 2022 - 23 year. The Stanford Criminal Justice Center invites you to meet and greet faculty, staff, local alumni and other students […]
Book Talk — Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment with Devon W. Carbado
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesIn Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment, celebrated legal scholar Devon Carbado, The Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at UCLA, explains how the Fourth Amendment became ground zero for regulating police conduct—more important than Miranda warnings, the right to counsel, equal protection and due process. Fourth Amendment law determines when and how […]
Bringing Restoration to the Legal System: Where Do Mercy and Vengeance Fit? A Two Part Series on Restorative Justice (Part 1)
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin us for a two-part series on the themes, theories, pitfalls and practices of restorative justice. During the first event on January 24th, writers Katharine Blake (SLS '12) and Josie Duffy Rice will discuss the notion of restoration (or lack thereof) in our criminal legal system, touching on the current system’s reliance on vengeance and […]
Watchdogs from Within: Government Lawyers in Divided Times: Glenn Fine, in conversation with Professors Anne Joseph O’Connell and Shirin Sinnar
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesMr. Fine served as Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011 in the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Administrations. After practicing law at a firm, Fine returned to government, and in January 2016 he became the Acting Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Defense. In this role, he led the […]
Bringing Restoration to the Legal System: Where Do Mercy and Vengeance Fit? A Two-Part Series on Restorative Justice (Part 2)
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin us for a two-part series on the themes, theories, pitfalls and practices of restorative justice. During the first event on January 24th, writers Katharine Blake (SLS '12) and Josie Duffy Rice will discuss the notion of restoration (or lack thereof) in our criminal legal system, touching on the current system’s reliance on vengeance and […]
Hope, Kinship, and the Path to Reform-The Homeboy Way
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesA Reception will follow the event. In 1986, when Homeboy Industries’ founder, Gregory Boyle became pastor of Dolores Mission Church, it was the poorest Catholic parish in Los Angeles. The parish included Aliso Village and Pico Gardens, then the largest public housing projects west of the Mississippi. They also had the highest concentration of gang […]
Book Talk – In Their Names with Lenore Anderson
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis event is sponsored by the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, and the Haas Center for Public Service.
Meet U.S. Attorney E. Martin Estrada
@ SLS: Room 320D Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesDiscussion with students sponsored by the Levin Public Interest Law Center, Stanford Criminal Justice Center, and Stanford Criminal Law Society in Room 320D Crown; Moderated by Professor David Sklansky or Professor Bob Weisberg (Faculty Directors of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center). Students are invited to sign up for office hours with Mr. Estrada. You may […]
Stanford Criminal Justice Center Welcome Reception
Room offsiteThe Stanford Criminal Justice Center invites you to meet and greet faculty, staff, local alumni, and other students who share criminal justice interests. Judge Haywood Gilliam, Federal District Court Judge for the Northern District of California, will offer short remarks. This event is open to Stanford Law School students, faculty, alumni, and staff.
Conversation with elected District Attorneys: Kim Foxx (Chicago), George Gascon (Los Angeles), and Larry Krasner ’87 (Philadelphia).
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin Stanford's Criminal Justice Center and the Levin Center for Public Interest Law for an insightful dialogue with elected District Attorneys: Kim Foxx (Chicago), George Gascon (Los Angeles), and Larry […]
Lunch with Stephen Bright, Longtime Director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, on “The Fear of Too Much Justice”
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesWatch the Event Join Stephen Bright, longtime director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, in Atlanta, Georgia, as he discusses his work in the areas of capital punishment, indigent criminal legal defense, racial discrimination in the criminal legal system, conditions and practices in prisons and jails, judicial independence, and his new book (with co-author […]
Excessive Punishment: How the Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesLunch will be provided. The United States has by far the world’s largest population of incarcerated people. Our criminal legal system doles out punishment—particularly to people from marginalized groups—on an unfathomable scale. At the same time, it fails to secure public safety, instead perpetuating inequalities and recidivism. Why does the United States see punishment as […]
Join the Levin Center, Criminal Justice Center, and Criminal Defense Clinic for a screening of "Justice USA, " and Q&A with Marshall Goldberg, JD '71
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Levin Center, Criminal Justice Center, and Criminal Defense Clinic for a screening of "Justice USA, " and Q&A with Marshall Goldberg, JD '71, who spent the past seven […]
Second Chances: Attorneys Working to Provide Post-Conviction Relief
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin us for a panel discussion on the legal avenues attorneys use to advocate for the release of individuals from incarceration. Panelists include: Judge John Gleeson, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton […]