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
Links
NYU Press – When Law Fails
NYU Press – The Road To Abolition?