INNOCENT BEHIND BARS
Friday, February 24 | 8:30am – 4pm
Great Hall
8:30 – 9:00am: Light Breakfast and Registration
9:00 – 9:15am: Welcome
9:15 – 10:30am: Roundtable Discussion 1 – The Criminal Legal System and Justice: For Survivors of Violence and Survivors of a Violent Prison System
- Maybell Romero, Felder-Fayard Associate Professor of Law, Tulane Law School – “Ruined”
- Aya Gruber, Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School – The Feminist War on Crime
- Yvette Butler, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Mississippi School of Law – “Survival Labor” and “Demonizing Our Sisters Through Epistemic Oppression”
- Leigh Goodmark, Marjorie Cook Professor of Law, Maryland Carey School of Law* – Imperfect Victims (virtual)
- Moderator: Valena Beety, Professor of Law, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law – Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights
10:45am – 12pm: Panel – New Understandings of Wrongful Convictions Today: No Crime Wrongful Convictions, Criminalization of Fight or Flight from Police, And Answers Beyond the Courts
- Daniel Medwed, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University School of Law – Barred
- Omavi Shukur, Associate Research Scholar, Columbia Law School – “The Criminalization of Flight or Fight Responses to Capture”
- Russ Covey, Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law – “Rules, Standards, Sentencing and the Nature of Law”; The Wrongful Convictions Reader
- Jessica Henry, Professor, Montclair State University – Smoke But No Fire
- Moderator: Katie Gipson-McLean, Deputy Public Defender, Maricopa County Public Defender’s Office
12 – 1pm: Lunch and Keynote Speaker Valena Beety, Professor of Law, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law – Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights
1:15 – 2:30pm: Roundtable Discussion 2 – When Pregnancy is Criminalized: Wrongful Convictions and Reproductive Rights
- Wendy Bach, Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law – Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care
- Ji Seon Song, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law – “Policing the Emergency Room”
- Cortney Lollar, Norman and Carole Harned Law and Public Policy Professor, University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law – “Criminalizing Pregnancy”
- Priscilla Ocen, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School * – “Incapacitating Motherhood”; “Pregnancy as a Status Offense” (virtual)
- Moderator: Priyal Thakkar, Judicial Clerk for the Honorable Judge Gass
2:45 – 4pm: Brainstorming Session – Restorative Justice and Decarceration: From Inside the Prison Walls
- Eve Hanan, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, Associate Professor of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law – “Invisible Prisons”
- Seema Saifee, Quattrone Center Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School – “Decarceration’s Inside Partners”
- Jordan Woods, Professor of Law, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law – “LGBT Identity and Crime”
- Carla Laroche, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law – “The New Jim and Jane Crow Intersect: Challenges to Defending the Parental Rights of Mothers During Incarceration”
- Moderator: Jamaar Williams, Deputy Public Defender, Maricopa County Public Defender’s Office
Questions or Concerns? Email Symposium Chair Madison Benson at mdbenson@asu.edu.