Litigating Adultification Bias in Criminal Cases Webinar

The Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ) invites you to join “Litigating Adultification Bias in Criminal Cases” featuring Professors Jessica Levin and Melissa Lee, Directors of the Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice, Seattle University School of Law and Professor Thalia González, Faculty Co-Director, CREJ, UC Law SF.

The webinar will introduce how the Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice has leveraged literature on adultification bias to advocate for legal standards and processes that account for the effects of adultification bias when young people of color are subject to criminal prosecution. Additionally, speakers will discuss judicial decisions in various jurisdictions acknowledging the operation of adultification bias, the legal rules that emerged from those decisions, and possible paths for expanding this advocacy into other points in the criminal legal process.

Speakers

Melissa Lee
Director, Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice, Seattle University School of Law

Jessica Levin
Director, Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice, Seattle University School of Law

Thalia González
Professor of Law & Faculty Co-Director, Center for Racial and Economic Justice

Participating organizations

• Seattle University School of Law, Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice

• The Center on Race, Inequality & the Law, NYU School of Law

• UCLA School of Law, Critical Race Studies

• UC Irvine Law, Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

• UC Law SF, Center for Racial and Economic Justice

• University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law