On October 21, 2019, the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law and the NYU Law Review jointly held the Symposium, “Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration” in Greenberg Lounge in Vanderbilt Hall. Watch the videos here:
Keynote Address by Shon Hopwood, Georgetown University Law Center
First Panel: Fixing the Broken Politics of Criminal Justice Reform
Moderator: Josie Duffy Rice, the Appeal
Panelists:
- Katherine Bennett, University of Washington
- Scott Colom, Sixteenth Circuit Court, Mississippi
- Shon Hopwood, Georgetown University Law Center
Second Panel: Prosecutors and Criminal Justice Reform
Moderator: I. Bennett Capers, Brooklyn Law School
Panelists:
- Sherry Boston, Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit, Georgia
- Rahsaan D. Hall, ACLU of Massachusetts
- Justine Olderman '98, Bronx Defenders
Third Panel: Inviting in Experts: Getting “Smart” on Crime
Moderator: Sandra G. Mayson '09, University of Georgia School of Law
Panelists:
- W. David Ball, Santa Clara University School of Law
- Kay Knapp, University of Minnesota Law School
- Judge Patti B. Saris, District of Massachusetts
Fourth Panel: Who Wears the Robe? Judges and Criminal Justice Reform
Moderator: David Patton, Federal Defenders of New York
Panelists:
- Alec Karakatsanis, Civil Rights Corps
- Judge Bridget M. McCormack '91, Michigan Supreme Court
- Judge L. Felipe Restrepo, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit