Criminal Justice Past Events
"Why Comply with International Law?", a talk by Shima Baradaran, Asociate Professor of Law, Brigham Young University Law School, November 2, 2011.
Criminal Justice Roundtable on Responses to 9-11, September 23-24, 2011
Participants included: Diane Marie Amann (Georgia Law School); Norman Abrams (UCLA School of Law); Robert Chesney (University of Texas School of Law); Monica Hakimi (University of Michigan Law School); Peter Marguilies (Roger Williams University School of Law); Deborah Pearlstein (Princeton University); Harvey Rishikof (National War College); Stephen Vladeck (American University College of Law); Matthew Waxman (Columbia Law School); Benjamin Wittes (Brookings Institution), and members of Vanderbilt's criminal justice and international law faculty. Co-sponsored with the International Legal Studies Program.
Habeas for the 21st Century released in March 2011 by University of Chicago Press
A discussion of Nancy King’s new book, Habeas for the Twenty-First Century: Uses, Abuses and the Future of the Great Writ (University of Chicago Press), coauthored with Joseph Hoffmann, featured comments from Professor King, Vanderbilt's Lee S. & Charles A. Speir Professor of Law, Barry Friedman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law at NYU Law School, and Judge William H. Pryor, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Professor Hoffmann, the Harry Pratter Professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, responded to the comments. Watch now.
"Wrongly Convicted: An Exoneree, His Lawyer, and Tales from the Front Lines of the Innocence Revolution," March 18, 2011 Nina Morrison, staff attorney, Innocence Project, and John Restivo, an exoneree, will talk about wrongful convictions and the work of the Innocence Project (Flynn Auditorium). View a slideshow of pictures from the event.
The Third Annual Criminal Justice Roundtable held December 10 and 11, 2010, featured Orin Kerr (G.W. Law School), An Equilibrium-Adjustment Theory of the Fourth Amendment, with commentator Chris Slobogin (Vanderbilt); Jeffrey Fagan (Columbia), "Profiling and Consent: Stops, Searches and Seizures after Soto," with commentator Nancy King (Vanderbilt); Wayne Logan (F.S.U.), "Police Mistakes of Law" with commentator James Coleman (Duke); Adam Benforado (Drexel), "Judging the Goring Ox: Examining Intuitions About Punishing Animals to Better Understand the Retributive Motive" with commentator Sara Beale (Duke); Doron Teichman (Hebrew University), "The Probative Function of Punishment: Criminal Sanctions In Defense of Innocent Defendants," with commentator Richard Bonnie (Virginia); and Carol Steiker (Harvard), "Capital Punishment: 100 Years of Discontinuous Debate," with commentator Scott Sundby (Miami).
February 17, 2011 "Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong," Workshop by Brandon L. Garrett, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School.
“Culture and Risk: Is Nanotechnology Different? How About Synthetic Biology?” November 16, 2010. Workshop by Dan M. Kahan, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
“The Future of the Death Penalty,” October 22, 2010. Ten experts on the death penalty, including representatives from the legal system, the correctional system, victims’ organizations, religious organizations, and advocacy groups will be on a panel. Christopher Slobogin, Milton Underwood Professor of Law, Vanderbilt, will play the role of governor of a new state considering whether to adopt the death penalty and will question panelists about their views.
“Roundtable on the American Bar Association’s draft revisions of the Prosecution and defense Function Standards,” October 8, 2010. The American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section chose Vanderbilt as one of six schools to co-sponsor a roundtable. devoted to soliciting input from members of the local bar on a draft revision of important standards including the right to jury trial, discovery and sentencing.
"Guantanamo Bay: Discussion of Current Issues and the Way Forward” (co-sponsored with International Legal Studies Program), September 10, 2010: The detention center at Guantanamo Bay has spurred a tremendous amount of litigation, with a number of cases ending up in the United States Supreme Court. This panel will examine topics including the relevance of international law and treaties to American jurisprudence, the scope of preventive detention, the rights of enemy combatants, and the habeas jurisdiction of the federal courts.
Sentencing, Corrections and Punishment - Spring 2010, a short course co-taught by Professors Nita Farahany, Nancy King, Robert Mikos and Christopher Slobogin, covered theories of criminal punishment, the relationship between sentencing and actual harms, guidelines sentencing; collateral consequences of convictions, such as deportation, disenfranchisement and forfeiture; probation; state regulation of incarceration, including good-time credits, supervised release, parole, mandatory and discretionary release sentencing systems; and innovations in punishment, including preventive detention, sexual predator statutes, "dangerous offender" statutes, notification, monitoring, mental health courts, drug courts, habitual offender statutes and shaming penalties. One goal of the course is the development of materials for possible use in a sentencing component of the first-year criminal law course, based on the idea that an understanding of the nature and scope criminal sanctions and their alternatives is crucial to understanding the theory and current practice of criminal law.
Young Scholars Roundtable, January 2010: Vanderbilt’s Criminal Justice Program sponsored a roundtable for criminal faculty who are early in their careers. Participants included: Laura Appelman (Willamette), Josh Bowers (Virginia), Eve Brensike (Michigan), Samuel Buell (Washington University), Bennett Capers (Hofstra), Roger Fairfax (George Washington), Barbara Fedders (North Carolina), Lea Johnston (Florida), Erin Murphy (Berkeley), James J. Prescott (Michigan), Alice Ristroph (Seton Hall) along with Christopher Slobogin, Nancy King, Nita Farahany, Terry Maroney and Sue Kay of Vanderbilt.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. November 2009: The Court heard arguments in one case, United States v. Durbin, which involved the issue of a Military Rule of Evidence 504 claim of spousal privilege in the context of a Air Force court-martial proceeding for possession of child pornography. The Appellate Litigation Clinic appeared as amicus curiae in support of Technical Sergeant Durbin, and one clinic student argued before the Court.
Inaugural Roundtable, September 2009: Six provocative papers were presented at the program's first roundtable in September. Participants included Douglas Berman (Ohio State), Stephanos Bibas (Penn), Dan Kahan (Yale), Tracey Meares (Yale), Joan Petersilia (Stanford), Kevin Reitz (Minnesota), Daniel Richman (Columbia), David Sklansky (Berkeley), Kate Stith (Yale), and Robert Weisberg (Stanford), as well as Vanderbilt’s criminal law & procedure faculty.