Criminal Justice News And Events

Vanderbilt Law Professor Robert Mikos outlines the limitations of Rescheduling Marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act Read More

Robert Mikos applies lessons from marijuana reform to explore the possibilities Read More

New article from Farhang Heydari explains how administrative agencies can drive criminal law enforcement Read More

New initiative dedicated to improving outcomes in the criminal justice system, with a focus on prosecution in the South Read More

Kate Weiburd, Michael Gentithes, Barry Friedman, Maria Ponomarenko, Lisa Griffin, and Jenny Carroll presented papers at the two-day conference Read More

Heydari’s research centers around society’s reliance on policing and criminal law Read More

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is poised to move Marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), putting it on par with ketamine and some anabolic steroids instead of heroin and LSD. The move would reduce restrictions on the drug, but as Marijuana Law expert… Read More

Wagner, who is deputy director of Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, addressed his pioneering research on the cognitive neuroscience of memory. Read More

Founding director of NYU’s Policing Project and senior fellow at Stand Together Trust discussed current issues in policing. Read More

Slobogin is the author of "Virtual Searches: Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing" and a leading analyst of the impact of government surveillance that involves remote electronic monitoring of digital information on Americans' individual privacy and security. He discusses the implications of the transformation from physical searches and seizures to monitoring electronic data with host Alan Rozenshtein in the Dec. 19, 2022, Lawfare podcast. Read More