Criminal Justice News And Events

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

Vanderbilt Law School has established a new criminal justice policy hub that will primarily focus on prosecution in the South. Dean Chris Guthrie announced the creation of the Vanderbilt Project on Prosecution Policy (VPOPP), a nonpartisan network of prosecutors, researchers, students, and other stakeholders dedicated to improving individual and… 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

Financial regulation expert Yadav discusses the federal charges against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces an eight-count criminal indictment that includes charges of fraud and conspiracy and violating campaign finance laws in the wake of the collapse of his cryptocurrency empire, with CNN International news anchor Rosemary Church. Read More

"Criminal Justice through Management: From Police, Prosecutors, Courts and Prisons to a Modern Administrative Agency," an Oregon Law Review article Rubin co-authored with Malcolm Feeley, is reported on in an Oct. 12 Crime Report article by James Van Bramer. Read More

Hinton was convicted of two murders in 1985 and when exonerated through the invention of the Equal Justie Initiative. His talk is sponsored by the Law Students for Social Justice and the George Barrett Social Justice Program and made possible by the Hyatt Student Activities Fund. Read More