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| Confronting Legal Injustice/Imagining Legal Justice |
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Friday, November 06, 2009, 9:30 AM
Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138 |
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This day-long conference will bring together authors from two recent books co-edited by Professors Charles Ogletree and Austin Sarat. Please join us as we discuss the various ways we confront the law’s failures as well as imagine a nation without capital punishment.
9:30 AM - Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Professor Austin Sarat, Amherst College
- Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School
10:00 AM - 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 Linda Meyer, Quinnipiac University School of Law
- Discussant: Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School
12:00 - 1:30 PM - Lunch and Keynote
- Stephen Bright, President and Senior Counsel, Southern Center for Human Rights
1:45 PM - 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
- Discussant: Professor Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School
3:45 - 4:00 PM - Closing Discussion: Austin Sarat and Charles Ogletree
Co-sponsored by:
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
Amherst College’s Charles Hamilton Houston Forum on Law and Social Justice
NYU Press |