With my line of work and the circles I have to be in I get stuff like this. This is for a 1.5hr long panel on 2/28 at 1200-1300 EST. It seems like anyone can register and it does not seem like it costs anything. May be something you all want to sit in if you want to get a glimpse at the crazy burning its way through the legal field.
Description
PANEL 2 - DOES CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT OF POLICE CONTRIBUTE OR DISTRACT FROM SOCIETAL RECKONINGS WITH RACISM?
Monday, Feb. 28th, 12:00-1:30pm EST, ZOOM
While many celebrated Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the murder of George Floyd as a sign of progress, others worried that it would distract from the systemic change needed to combat racism in policing and put the focus instead on a few “bad apples.” Such considerations about criminal punishment are familiar to transitional justice scholars and activists who have long debated the appropriate aim and reach of criminal accountability in transitioning societies. On one hand, some have argued there is a duty to prosecute all involved in mass atrocity, while on the other hand critics have been concerned that criminal punishment reinforces an individualized and decontextualized understanding of harms and diminishes the likelihood of more profound transformation.
This panel will contextualize these debates by centering the role of police accountability in the much needed racial reckoning in the United States and discussing both the potential benefits and limitations of prosecuting police for racial violence. In particular, the panel will explore whether criminal accountability has lived up to its promise in other transitioning contexts and what lessons we can learn from those examples that might be applicable in the United States.
MODERATOR:
Rachel Lopez - Associate Professor of Law, Drexel University, Thomas R. Kline School of Law
PANELISTS:
Roxanna Altholz - Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic, Berkeley Law School
Nikki Grant - Policy Director and Co-Founder, Amistad Law Project
Darryl Heller - Director of the IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center and Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Indiana University South Bend
Helen Mack Chang - President and Founder, Myrna Mack Foundation
Co-organized by the Center for International Law and Policy at New England Law | Boston, the International Human Rights Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and the Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law.
Howdy all,
With my line of work and the circles I have to be in I get stuff like this. This is for a 1.5hr long panel on 2/28 at 1200-1300 EST. It seems like anyone can register and it does not seem like it costs anything. May be something you all want to sit in if you want to get a glimpse at the crazy burning its way through the legal field.
Description
PANEL 2 - DOES CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT OF POLICE CONTRIBUTE OR DISTRACT FROM SOCIETAL RECKONINGS WITH RACISM?
Monday, Feb. 28th, 12:00-1:30pm EST, ZOOM
While many celebrated Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the murder of George Floyd as a sign of progress, others worried that it would distract from the systemic change needed to combat racism in policing and put the focus instead on a few “bad apples.” Such considerations about criminal punishment are familiar to transitional justice scholars and activists who have long debated the appropriate aim and reach of criminal accountability in transitioning societies. On one hand, some have argued there is a duty to prosecute all involved in mass atrocity, while on the other hand critics have been concerned that criminal punishment reinforces an individualized and decontextualized understanding of harms and diminishes the likelihood of more profound transformation.
This panel will contextualize these debates by centering the role of police accountability in the much needed racial reckoning in the United States and discussing both the potential benefits and limitations of prosecuting police for racial violence. In particular, the panel will explore whether criminal accountability has lived up to its promise in other transitioning contexts and what lessons we can learn from those examples that might be applicable in the United States.
MODERATOR: Rachel Lopez - Associate Professor of Law, Drexel University, Thomas R. Kline School of Law
PANELISTS:
Roxanna Altholz - Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic, Berkeley Law School
Nikki Grant - Policy Director and Co-Founder, Amistad Law Project
Darryl Heller - Director of the IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center and Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Indiana University South Bend
Helen Mack Chang - President and Founder, Myrna Mack Foundation
Co-organized by the Center for International Law and Policy at New England Law | Boston, the International Human Rights Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and the Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law.