Confronting Legal Injustice/ Imagining Legal Justice

This day-long conference will bring together authors from two recent books co-edited by Professors Charles Ogletree and Austin Sarat. They will discuss the various ways we confront the law’s failures as well as imagine a nation without capital punishment.

Morning Panel: When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice

*Professor Douglas Berman, Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law

*Professor Mary Dudziak, University of Southern California

*Professor Patricia Ewick, Clark University

*Professor Linda Meyer, Quinnipiac University School of Law

Afternoon Panel: The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment

*Professor Simon Cole, University of California at Irvine

*Professor Deborah Denno, Fordham University School of Law

*Professor Bernard Harcourt, University of Chicago

*Professor Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Swarthmore College

Co-sponsored by: Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Amherst College ’s Charles Hamilton Houston Forum on Law and Social Justice, and NYU Press.

For more information or to RSVP visit:
http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org/Events/Event.aspx?id=100098.