Adam Crepelle is an associate  professor  at Southern University Law Center and the managing fellow of SULC’s  Native American Law and Policy Institute. He is a commissioner on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence and a

J.D. Candidate, New York University School of Law, Class of 2014.

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Wisconsin-Parkside. J.D., William and Mary; LL.M., Queen’s University (Canada).

Professor of Law, Russell Baker Scholar and Acting Director, Center for Studies of Criminal Justice, University of Chicago; Member, Illinois Bar. A.B., Harvard University, 1962; LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1965.

Alec Soghomonian is a graduate of NYU Law School and Occidental College. He would like to thank his parents and friends for their constant support and dedicate this article to the 120,000 Armenians who were ethnically cleansed from the Republic

Alexandra Kalev, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tel Aviv University, Ph.D. in Sociology, Princeton University, 2006

Alexis Piazza is an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the ACLU Foundation of Southern California and a member of the ACLU of California’s Education Equity Team.

B.A., 1973, Indiana University; M.A., 1977, Indiana University; J.D., 1992, New York University School of Law.

Attorney in Washington, D.C

Alicia Ybarra is the Organizing and Campaign Liason of the Workfare and Low-Wage Workforce Project at the National Employment Law Project. She joined NELP in1997 after serving as an Assistant Director of the Political Action Department at Local 1199 of

Alvaro Botero is a rapporteur for the United Nations Committee on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, as well as a coordinator of the Organization of American States Unit on Refugees and

Alyssa Bell currently serves as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Richard Paez, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She graduated magna cum laude from the New York University School of Law in May 2010, where she was

B.A., 1986, University of Iowa; J.D., 1992, New York University School of Law.

Tenants’ Rights Special Litigation Staff Attorney at Southeast Louisiana Legal Services and Co-Chair of the Louisiana National Lawyers Guild. The Author is also the former Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Law and Social Change. A companion piece to this article

Senior Research Associate with the Center for Women in Government and Civil Society, the State University of New York, Albany; former Executive Director of the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence.

N.Y.U. School of Law, J.D. 2009; Trial Attorney at the Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc.

Amy Sugimori, N.Y.U. School of Law, 1999, was an Editor-in-Chief of the N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change in 1998-99. She is currently the Executive Director of La Fuente, A Tri-State Worker & Community Fund, Inc., a labor-community collaborative

Andrea J. Ritchie is a police misconduct attorney who has engaged in extensive research, litigation, and advocacy on profiling and policing of women, girls, and LGBT people of color. She served as plaintiffs’ counsel in Doe v. Jindal, a successful

Law Clerk, 2004-05, The Honorable Reena Raggi, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. J.D., Harvard Law School, 2004; A.B., Brown University, 1999.

John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University.

Associate Professor of Law, Columbia University. B.A., College of the City of New York, 1968; M.A., Columbia University, 1969; J.D., Harvard University, 1972.

Skadden Fellow, Urban Justice Center Community Development Project; Senior Editor, The Next American City; Law Clerk to the Honorable Janet C. Hall, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, 2004-05. J.D., New York University School of Law, 2004;

Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law. A.B., 1971, Bryn Mawr College; J.D., 1978, Harvard Law School.

Assistant Clinical Professor of Epidemiology and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and Director of Research for the East Harlem Interfaith Welfare Committee.

Professor of Human Rights Law, Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, U.K., B.A. (Hons.) 1983, Cambridge University, M.A. 1986, Cambridge University, Solicitor 1994, Law Society of England and Wales, LL.M., International and European Law, 2000, Liverpool University, Ph.D. 2013,

AnnJanette Rosga, Ph.D., received her doctorate in 1998 from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Knox College in Illinois, and has published in the

Haywood Burns Chair in Civil Rights, CUNY School of Law, 2006-2007; Associate Professor, Boston College Law School.

Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Adjunct Professor of Law, and Managing Attorney, Federal Litigation Clinic, New York Law School; A.B., Brown University, 1981; J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1984.

J.D. Candidate 1999, New York University School of Law.

J.D., The George Washington University Law School, 2020. Ashley now works as an Associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Washington, D.C.

Assistant Professor of Law, New York University School of Law.

Chief of Appeals and Counsel to the District Attorney for Kings County, New York.

Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Pediatrics, Brown University Program in Medicine. B.A., 1969; Boston University, M.A. 1970; Ph.D., 1973, Michigan State University. Research Grants: NIH -1 U10 HD27904-01 (Multicenter Network of Neonatal Intensive Care Units (Apr. 1991

Attorney, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Chief Defender, Defender Association of Philadelphia; President, National Legal Aid and Defender Association; former Deputy Attorney General and Chief, Office of CriminalLaw, Pennsylvania Department of Justice.

Hon. Betty Weinberg Ellerin is currently Senior Counsel to Alston & Bird and Chair of the New York State Judicial Committee on Women in the Courts. A judge for thirty years, she was the first woman Deputy Chief Administrative Judge

J.D. 2017, New York University School of Law. A special thank you to the editorial staff of the N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Changeand particularly to Molly A Griffard, Charlotte G.L. Heyrman, Bobby Hunter, Joanna R. Loomis, and Nora

2006 graduate of New York University School of Law. He has represented individuals on death row and juveniles serving life without the possibility of parole in the Deep South. He is currently a criminal justice attorney in New York City.

J.D., New York University School of Law, 2004; B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

Brian Fuller is a writer, artist and activist. He has written and published several poems, short stories, and personal essays. He brings a rawness and level of detail, honesty and humor to his writing that will surely move its readers.

New York University School of Law, J.D. 2000.

Clinical Teaching Fellow, Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic, Cornell Law School (J.D., New York University School of Law; B.A., Stanford University).

Law Clerk to the Chief Judge James T. Giles, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. J.D., 2002, New York University School of Law.

Law Fellow, Equal Justice Initiative; J.D., New York University School of Law, 2015.

Professor of Law, Duquesne University School of Law. The author recently served as Secretary of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties, New York University School of Law; National Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union (1981-1986); founding Legal Director, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU.

Visiting Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, Professor of Law, Saint Louis University, School of Law, LL.M. Columbia University, Law Clerk to the Honorable Mr. Justice lacobucci, Supreme Court of Canada, LL.B. University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Carey Shenkman is a co-author of the book “A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press” (University of Illinois Press, 2022). Shenkman is a human rights lawyer and NYU Law School Alum (’13) focusing on freedom

Professor of Law & Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar, Rutgers University School of Law (Newark).

President and CEO, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

Associate, Zalkind & Sheketoff, Boston, Massachusetts; B.A. Carnegie-Mellon University, 1972; Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1977; J.D. Yale University, 1982.

Caroline Fredrickson is President of the American Constitution Society (ACS). During her tenure, Fredrickson has helped grow ACS, which now has lawyer chapters across the country, student chapters in nearly every law school in the United States, and thousands of

Professor of Law, UCLA; Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center, 1994; A.B. Barnard College, 1971; J.D. University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1974.

Law Clerk to the Honorable Harry Pregerson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. J.D., 2000, N.Y.U. School of Law.

President-Elect, New York County Lawyers’ Association.

J.D. Candidate, Northern Illinois University College of Law, December, 2010;M.S., Northern Illinois University; B.S., Benedictine University.

Professor, University of Louisville, Brandeis School of Law. B.A., Oberlin College; J.D., New York University School of Law. Managing Editor, N.Y.U Review of Law & Social Change (1986-87).

Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (on leave). Government ethics rules preclude me from doing much more than editing the transcript of the speech I delivered at this symposium. For that reason, this speech

Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Partner, Jessamy Fort & Ogletree; former Deputy Director, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. B.A., 1974, MA., 1975, Stanford University; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1978.

A.B., 1972, Cornell University; J.D., 1978, Georgetown University Law Center. Assistant Director of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly which is responsible for research, project development, and education in the areas of health law, long-term

Clinical Law Professor, Criminal Law Clinic, New York University School of Law. A.B., Emory University, 1965; J.D., New York Law School, 1968.

Chloe Walker is a staff attorney within the ABA’s Children’s Immigration Law Academy. Chloe earned her J.D. and Masters in Social Work from the University Houston. Chloe is a New Leaders Council Fellow and was honored in 2019 as one

Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Director of the Family Defense Clinic, New York University School of Law.

J.D., University of Virginia School of Law.

Staff Attorney with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.

Law Clerk to the Honorable Harry Pregerson, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. J.D., 2002, New York University School of Law.

Clifford L. Powers has been a jailhouse lawyer and legal advocate for over 15 years. He is currently serving a life sentence in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Colie Levar Long was born and raised in Washington DC. At the age of 18, he was sentenced to life without parole. While serving 25 years, he became a youth mentor and an accomplished author. He writes about the carceral

Mr. Rosen is Executive Director at the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO), a private, non-profit membership and research organization located at 426 17th Street, Suite 650, Oakland, California 94612.

Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz. B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University; J.D., Stanford Law School.

Professor of Law, Michigan State University-Detroit College of Law.

Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Business School. J.D., New York University School of Law.

Associate Clinical Professor, Boston College Law School; Director, Boston College Immigration and Asylum Project.

Daniel Putnam is a graduate of NYU Law School and Yale University for his Ph.D. in Philosophy.

Assistant Professor of Law, University of Arkansas School of Law; J.D. 2005, University of Florida; B.A. 2002, Franklin and Marshall College. Prior to entering the academy, I practiced labor, employment, and education law at a large law firm in upstate

Associate Professor, Washington & Lee University School of Law.

David AJ. Richards is a professor at New York University School of Law. Professor Richards received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1971 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1970 from Oxford University.

B.A., B.S., University of California, Irvine; M.S., Stanford University; J.D., New York University School of Law; Professor of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

Associate with Webster & Sheffield, New York, New York. B.A., Brown University. 1973; J.D., New York University, 1986.

David Ellerman, Ph.D., is cofounder and staff economist of the ICA, and has worked in the field of workplace democracy for fifteen years. Dr. Ellerman has received graduate degrees in Philosophy, Economics, and Mathematics, and has taught mathematics, computer science,

Supervising Trial Attorney of the Bronx Defenders.

Manley 0. Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.

David Ray Fleenor was wrongfully convicted of murder in the first degree at the age of 25. He is now 53 years old, a college graduate, a certified paralegal, and an aspiring writer. David says that writing about his experience

J.D., New York University School of Law, 2017; B.A., Brown University, 2012.

David Schanzer is a professor of the practice at the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy University and director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security. He teaches courses, conducts research and engages in public dialogue on counterterrorism

J.D., 1995, New York University.

Dean Spade is an associate professor at the Seattle University School of Law and is currently a fellow in the Engaging Tradition Project at Columbia Law School.

B.A., 1988, University of Michigan; J.D., 1992, New York University School of Law. The author is currently working as a consultant to the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, on refugee protection concerns in the former Yugoslavia. She received the NYU

B.A. University of Wisconsin, 1971; J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School, 1976. Groban Olson & Associates, a Detroit law firm, is general counsel for the Midwest Employee Ownership Center and specializes in representing clients in Michigan and other states on

Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Faculty Director, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, New York University School of Law, and President of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Staff Attorney, New York Legal Assistance Group, Tenants’ Rights Unit; J.D. 2015, New York University School of Law.

Derrick Gailes was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He is a man of God, father of three, February-born Pisces, and appreciative of his gift of writing.

Research Professor of Education at New York University and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution

Professor of Economics and Public Administration, Graduate School of Public Administration, New York University; member of the Board of Directors of the Municipal Assistance Corporation for the City of New York. B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1946; M.A., M.P.A., Harvard University,

Law Graduate, Housing Justice Unit, The Legal Aid Society.

Professor, College of Law, University of Toledo. A.B., University of California, Berkeley; M.S., Northwestern University; J.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Law Clerk for the Honorable Albert W. Cofrin, Senior Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. J.D., 1990, Vermont Law School; B.S., 1979, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point.

Ms. Noyes is a Revson Legislative Fellow with the New York State Senate’s Minority Task Force on Women’s Issues.

Dr. Jill Humphries is an Assistant Professor and Part Time Instructor for the University of Toledo’s Africana Studies Program, recognized for her accomplishments as a two-time Fulbright Scholar to South Africa and an Ambassador Distinguished Scholar for Ethiopia.

Partner, Boggan, Patton & Thorn, New York, New York. Chair-person Elect. Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities, American Bar Association. Co-author. The Rights of Gay People (ACLU handbook).

National Staff Counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, and author of Federal Court Awards of Attorney’s Fees (1981).  

Yale University ’17, NYU Law ’22. Elena grew up in rural Montana, on occupied Niitsítapi and Salish Kootenai land. Elena is an immigration attorney at Pangea Legal Services. During law school, she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar, a student advocate in

Elie Mystal is Managing Editor of Above the Law and Host of Thinking Like a Lawyer. Elie Mystal joined Above the Law in 2008 by winning the Above the Law Idol Contest. Prior to joining Above the Law, Elie wrote

Elizabeth Ehrenfest Steinglass is a Research Fellow at New York University School of Law and a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

A.B., Modem Culture Media and Political Science, Brown University, summa cum laude (2000); J.D., New York University School of Law (2004); Ph.D. candidate, New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Law and Society Program.

Staff Attorney, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Inc. B.A., 1979, Barnard College; J.D., 1982, Columbia University.

J.D. 2020, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, M.S. Social Policy 2020, Uni-versity of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice.

J.D., NYU School of Law, 2022; Public Defender, Brooklyn Defender Services.

Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University College of Law.

A fellow at the Public Religion Research Institute, Engy Abdelkader is based at Rutgers University where her teaching and research explore religion, race, and gender at the intersection of law, politics, and society. Representative scholarly publications include, When Islamophobia Turns

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University.

Assistant Professor of Law, Hofstra University. B.A., 1975, Yale; M.A., 1977, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand); J.D., 1979, Yale. Professor Freedman has represented numerous capital prisoners around the country seeking collateral relief from their convictions and sentences.

Erica Newland serves as Counsel with Protect Democracy. She most recently served as an Attorney Adviser at the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice (DOJ). Before joining the DOJ, she served as a law clerk to the

Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law.

Mr. Waters is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He earned his Ph.D. from the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. He has published more than thirty research

Farhan Ahmed, born in Punjab Pakistan, is a writer and an activist. He has earned his Associate’s Degree in Liberal Arts and Bachelor’s Degree in Social Studies from Bard Prison initiative (BPI) and is in the process of applying for

Staff Attorney, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem; J.D., 1993, NYU School of Law; B.A., 1989, Dartmouth College. Florian Miedel grew up in Berlin, Germany

Francine Banner is an attorney at Bingham Dana LLP.

B.A., 1976, Antioch College; J.D., 1979, University of Pennsylvania School of Law. The author is Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and an adjunct professor of law at C.U.N.Y. Law School.

Jackson Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin. B.S., University of Wisconsin, 1947; LL.B., University of Wisconsin, 1949.

Associate Professor, Suffolk University Law School. J.D., Duke University; B.A., Amherst College.

B.A., Princeton University, 1977;  J.D., New York University School of Law, 1994.Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University School of Law, Spring 1996.

Ph.D., 1971, University of Pennsylvania (sociology); Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Medical College of Pennsylvania; Regional Coordinator, Section on Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Medical College of Pennsylvania; Consultant to the Criminal Law Education and Research Center, New York University School of

Frederick Willie Kearse is 48-years old. After serving almost 30 years in prison, he was granted parole in 2021. He’s a Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) alumnus and resides in New York. He can be reached at willheflly@gmail.com.

Blackmun Fellow, Center for Reproductive Rights.

Professor of Law and Associate Dean, University of California School of Law, Davis. B.A., Indiana University, 1961; J.D., Indiana University Law School, 1965. The author is a former Chief Assistant State Public Defender, State of California.

LL.M. Candidate, International Legal Studies, New York University School of Law, 2006; J.D., New York University School of Law, 2005.

Geoffrey A. Manne is the president and founder of the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based in Portland, Oregon. He is an expert in the economic analysis of law, focusing particularly on antitrust

Staff Attorney, Housing Conservation Coordinators; Member, Asian Americans Advisory Board. B.A., University of Rochester, 1967; J.D., New York Law School, 1977.

Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. B.A., Southern Methodist University, 1933; A.M., Harvard University, 1934; J.D., Detroit College of Law,1949.

Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Professor of Law, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq. is the Executive Director of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA), a national federation of Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender organizations, where he oversees the

J.D. Candidate, 2019, New York University School of Law; B.A., 2013, Princeton University

Professor of Law, New York University. B.A. 1948, M.A. 1950, Cambridge University; L.L.B. 1950 University of Wales; LL.M. 1960, New York University.

Assistant Professor of Psychology, City University of New York Graduate Center.B.A., University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1977; Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 1983. Dr. Herek is Chair of the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns.

Hana Yamahiro is a Staff Attorney at the King County Department of Public Defense in Seattle, Washington. She graduated from NYU School of Law in 2021.

A.B., Drew University (1966), Ph.D., American University (1971). Dr. Relyea is a specialist in American National Government with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.

Professor of Law, New York University School of Law.

A.B., 1987, Princeton University; J.D., 1992, New York University School of Law.

Herbert M. and Svetlana Wachtell Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties at New York University School of Law. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Brennan Center for Justice, which convened this symposium.

Chairman, Department of Nuclear Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory. B.S., 1941, Louisiana State University; M.S., 1946, Louisiana State University; Ph.D., 1952, Princeton University.

University of Washington School of Law, J.D. Class of 2012. B.A., Yale University, 2004.

Hillela B. Simpson, Gault Fellow, National Juvenile Defender Center. J.D., 2016, New York University School of Law; B.A., 2010, Mount Holyoke College.

Toko Serita is a New York City Criminal Court judge who was appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2005. She is currently the presiding judge of the Human Trafficking Intervention Court (HTIC), the Queens Misdemeanor Treatment Court (a drug treatment

Attorney General Humphrey received his B.A. in political science from American University in 1965 and his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1969. Prior to serving as Attorney General, he represented Minnesota’s 44th Senatorial District from 1972-82

Associate Professor of Law, Hofstra Law School. B.A. Princeton University; J.D. Columbia Law School.

JD candidate 2008, New York University School of Law.

Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union. B.S., 1959, Queens College; M.A., 1960, Ohio State University.

Isais Torres is a solo practitioner in Houston, Texas. He served as co-counsel in Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), a case in which the Supreme Court recognized the right of undocumented children to attend public school.

A.B., 1977, Rutgers College; J.D., 1980, Harvard Law School. Jack F. Trope is a partner in the law firm of Sant’Angelo & Trope, P.C., in Somerville, NJ., where his primary specialty is American Indian Law. Previously Mr. Trope was Senior

Jacob E. Adams, Jr. is a research associate professor in the University of Washington’s Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and director of the School Finance Redesign Project.

SJ.D., New York University School of Law, 2002.

Associate Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law

Professor of Law at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law, and coauthor of Collective Bargaining in Private Employment.

Associate Professor, The American University, School of Justice; Senior Fellow, The Police Foundation. B.S. 1971, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of NewYork; M.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1978, State University of New York at Albany. The Police Foundation was

Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Law, Columbia Law School.

James Weinstein is the Dan Cracchiolo Chair in Constitutional Law in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, a faculty fellow in the Center for Law, Science and Innovation at Arizona State University and an associate fellow with the Centre

Clerk (1985-86), Chief Justice Robert Wilentz, Supreme Court of New Jersey. J.D., Northeastern University, 1985; B.A., Columbia University, 1979.

Advocacy Fellow, Center for Applied Legal Studies, Georgetown University Law Center; B.A., Hollins College, 1977; J.D., New York University School of Law, 1983.

Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law. BA., 1968, U.C.L.A.; Graduate, 1973, Boston Family Institute; J.D., 1983, Yale Law School.

Janet Bond Arterton received a B.A. in Political Science from M. Holyoke College in 1966 and a J.D. from Northeastern University in 1977. She was a law clerk for the U.S. District Court for New Jersey (the Honorable Herbert J.

Professor Calvo is on the faculty of the City University of New York (C.U.N.Y.) Law School. She received a B.A. from William Smith College in 1969 and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1973.

Associate Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh; Professor of Law, Boston University beginning July 1, 2020.

Attorney with the California Appellate Project, a non-profit private law firm providing quality control for the California Court of Appeals, Second District, in indigent criminal felony appeals. B.A., 1970, University of California, Los Angeles; J.D., 1973, University of California, Los

B.A., 1979, Swarthmore College; J.D., 1983, Harvard University. Ms. Sternlight is currently a member and Vice President of Samuel & Ballard, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, specializing in plaintiffs’side employment litigation.

Professor, Chair, Department of Philosophy, Director of Center for Ethics, Law, and Medicine, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania. B.A., 1978, California State University, Chico; M.A., 1980, Ph.D., 1983, Purdue University.

Winner of the Leonard M. Henkin Prize, awarded annually at New York University School ofLaw for the article of distinction on the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Senior Counsel and Director, Law and Policy Project, Lambda Legal. Before rejoining Lambda Legal to found and direct the Law and Policy Project, Pizer was Legal Director and the Arnold D. Kassoy Senior Scholar of Law at the Williams Institute

Jennifer Dohrn is a nurse-midwife who directs the Childbearing Center of Morris Heights and teaches nurse-midwifery at Columbia University. She also has been involved in women’s health issues in Nicaragua and South Africa.

Henry LeBarre Professor of Government, Harvard University, Departments of Government, and African and African American Studies.

Professor of Law, U.C. Davis School of Law.

¥ Jennifer Weiss-Wolf is vice president and the inaugural women and democracy fellow of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law. A leading advocate for issues of gender, politics—and menstruation—she was dubbed the “architect of the U.S. campaign to

J.D., 2002, New York University School of Law.

2016–2017 Law Clerk to the Honorable Eugene E. Siler Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; 2015–2016 Law Clerk to the Honorable Jimmie V. Reyna of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal

Staff Attorney, Family Law Unit, South Brooklyn Legal Services.

Jessica Neuwirth is founder and co-President of the ERA Coalitionand author of Equal Means Equal: Why the Time for an Equal Rights Amendment Is Now. She directs the Roosevelt House Human Rights Program at Hunter College.

Assistant Director, Literature Program, New York State Council on the Arts. Ms. Gomez is an author and critic; her fiction has appeared in Worlds Apart, Ikon, and The American Voice, and she has published two collections of poetry, The Lipstick

Senior Counsel at the National Women’s Law Center, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC.

Jill Laurie Goodman is Counsel to the New York State Judicial Committee on Women in the Courts.

Yale Law School, J.D. 2013.

Professor of Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent, U.K.

Professor of Law at the University of California (Los Angeles).

john a. powell is the founder and Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity at the Ohio State University, where he holds the Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the Moritz

B.A., 1990, University of Michigan; J.D., 1993, New York University School of Law: MLA. (Philosophy), 1994, New York University;, M.P.S. degree candidate, 1996, New York University.

John Glasel is vice-chair of the Gray Panthers of Northern New Jersey. He recently retired from ten years of service as president of Local 802, American Federation of Musicians, where he also served on the board of trustees of its

Professor of Law, Stanford University; author or editor of, among others, THE POLITICS OF PEACE (1981), Anits CONTROL II: A NEW APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL SECURITY (1981), and Intensified Nuclear Safeguards and Civil Liberties (unpublished paper prepared under NRC Contract No.

John Hovey is an author/artist doomed to a “life” sentence who has been continuously incarcerated since 1984 when he was sixteen. His articles, fiction and illustrations appear in numerous books, magazines, and other venues. He wrote Chapter 35 “Growing Up

Jack and Freda Dicker Distinguished Professor of Health Care Law, Hofstra University School of Law. B.A., 1951, Mary Immaculate College; J.D., 1960, LLM. 1971, J.S.D., 1977, Columbia Law School. Member, New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.

Mr. Oshinski began his labor work with District 50 of the Allied and Technical Workers, first as a staff representative and later as director of organizing. Both before and after District 50 merged with the Steelworkers, he worked on organizing

B.A. 1988, Queens College (CUNY); Ph.D. 1995, University of Chicago; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University.

Associate, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, Washington, D.C. B.A., University of California, 1977; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1982.

John T. Vance, #923106, is an incarcerated advocate, author, poet, and artist at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Carlisle, Indiana. Vance has been incarcerated since age 15, beginning in 1991. Over the years, Vance has made a positive impact

Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Texas-Pan American.

M.Phil., University of Cambridge, 2010; J.D., UCLA School of Law, 2009; A.B., Harvard College, 2006.

Staff Attorney, Criminal Defense Division, Legal Aid Society of New York; B.A., Hamilton College, 1978; Fulbright Scholar in West Germany, 1978-79; J.D., New York University, 1982.

Distinguished Professor of Law, Wayne State University School of Law; Reporter, Michigan Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure; former Assistant District Attorney, Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.

Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law.

Associate Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh; Professor of Law, Boston University beginning July 1, 2020.

Joshua J. Schroeder is owner/founder of SchroederLaw in Oakland, CA where he practices immigration law, constitutional law, and intellectual property law. He holds a J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law School, and is admitted to practice in the United States

Joshua Matz received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2012 and is currently clerking for Judge J. Paul Oetken of the Southern District of New York.

Vice President at the National Women’s Law Center, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC.

Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School.

Associate Professor, Law School, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo.

Julian M. Hill is an Assistant Professor of Law and a Co-Founding Director of the Community Development & Entrepreneurship Law Clinic at Georgia State University College of Law.

Women’s Rights Project Fellow, American Civil Liberties Union. J.D., 2008, NYU School of Law; B.A., Yale University.

Julie Dona is a law clerk at Allen & Overy, LLP. In2011, she received a Master in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a Juris Doctor from the New York University School of

B.A., 1987, The Evergreen State College; M.S., 1990, Northeastern University.

A.B., 1989, Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges; J.D., 1992, New York University School of Law.

J.D., NYU School of Law, 2004.

Assistant Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law.

Kaitlyn A. Crowe is a litigation associate at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.’s New York office. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation across a variety of areas, including contract disputes and business dissolutions. She regularly advises

Karen Kithan Yau is an associate at the law firm of Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C.. She practices in the area of employment law, representing employees indiscrimination and wage and hour matters. Ms. Yau was a Skadden Fellow and

Assistant Professor, Boston College Law School, and founder of the Boston College Ninth Circuit Appellate Program, a clinic that represents non-citizens with criminal convictions in the Ninth Circuit.

L. Kate Mitchell, a Clinical Teaching Fellow with the University of Michigan Law School Pediatric Advocacy Clinic, has fifteen years of experience practicing poverty law with expertise in special education law, EPSDT, and interdisciplinary approaches to advocacy.

Law Clerk to the Honorable James B. Moran, Northern District of Illinois, 2005-2007. J.D., New York University School of Law, 2005.

Staff Attorney, New York Legal Assistance Group, Tenants’ Rights Unit; J.D. 2015, New York University School of Law.

J.D., 1986, Northeastern University; LL.M., 1993, Yale University; J.S.D. candidate, Yale University.

Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law and Director of the Race and Crime Center for Justice at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law. The Author extends a special thank you to colleagues, for their critical and helpful

Instructor, Brooklyn Law School, 1986-87, Coordinator Legal Writing Program, New York University School of Law, 1985-86; A.B., 1975, Stanford University; J.D., Columbia University, 1980.

Kathryn is a candidate for a 2020 J.D. from NYU School of Law, and graduated with a B.A. from Union College in 2017.

Willard and Margaret Carr Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, B.A. 1978, University of Wisconsin, M.A., Economics, and J.D. 1981, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ph.D., Economics, 1984, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Associate Professor, Paul M. Hebert Law Center of Louisiana State University. B.A., Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, 1969; J.D., University of Virginia, 1972; M.A., University of Virginia, 1975.

I will likely die in prison, or get out as an afflicted senior. This may be my just fate. Nevertheless, I live life as if I will be released tomorrow. Thus, I am currently in college and pursuing a paralegal

Kevin Bennardo is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law and a Non-Resident Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Palau.

Mitch Willoughby Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law, Richard S. Melvin Emeritus Professor, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, B.S. 1978, Indiana University, J.D. 1982, Yale Law School.

Khaled Beydoun is an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law and Senior affiliated faculty at the University of California Berkeley Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project. His research examines the tension between First Amendment protections and prevailing

Dr. Khandare is Director of MSW Program and Co-Chair of Claire Argow Social Work Program at Pacific University and serves on EDI committee and Faculty Senate. Dr. Khandare is also appointed as a member on Global Young Academy (GYA) for

Professor Lan Cao is the Betty Hutton Williams Professor of International Economic Law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law (JD Yale Law School, BA Mount Holyoke College).

Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center. J.D., Boalt Hall School ofLaw, University of California, 1975; B.A., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1972.

Member, Oregon Bar. B.A., 1966, State University Of New York at Binghamton; M.S.W., 1968, University of Michigan School of Social work; J.D.. 1975, Lewis and Clark Law School. Deputy County Counsel, Multnomah County, Oregon.

Mr. Shadburn is a Program Officer for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). Although based in New York, Mr. Shadburn manages LISC’s Pittsburgh, Southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia programs.

Lee Gelernt is the Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School. During the past 18 months he’s argued several groundbreaking challenges to Trump Administration policies. He regularly appears in the

Leo Cardez is an award-winning inmate writer. Cardez is a Pushcart Press Prize and Best Essays in America-nominated essayist and journalist. Mr. Cardez is a winner of the prestigious PEN America Award and was published in a print anthology earlier

Associate Professor of Law, the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University.

Lucas Guttentag is the Professor of the Practice of Law at Stanford Law School and Martin R. Flug Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. He is the founder and former national director of the ACLU’s

Lucy Gray-Stack has been a public defender in New Jersey since 2019, after receiving her JD from NYU Law School. During law school, Lucy interned at the Rhode Island Public Defender and the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender,

Harvard Law School, J.D. 2020.

Lydia Davenport is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude, and of Brown University.

Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley; Chairman, Center for the Study of Law and Society. B.A., Austin College, 1969; M.A., University of Minnesota, 1967; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1969.

Vice President, Conflict Management Resources, Inc.; Former Director, PINS Mediation Project of The Children’s Aid Society. B.A., 1966, Smith College; J.D., 1972, New York University School of Law.

Director of Communications, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law.

Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School.

B.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1968; J.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1971. Member, California Bar. Ms. Dunlap is a founder of the San Francisco-based EqualRights Advocates Inc., a feminist public interest law firm, and is a partner in the San Francisco firm

Matthew Barreto is a Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o & Central American Studies at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and co-founder and Director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project (VRP).

Melissa Murray is a Professor of Law at NYU School of Law.

Meredith M. Leary is a seasoned litigator with extensive project management and case management experience with Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C..  Meredith specializes in complex commercial problem solving and risk assessment and mitigation, in the litigation and

Attorney, Vera Institute of Justice, Plan Demonstration Projects, New York. JD., 1987, City University of New York Law School at Queens College.

Michael Banerjee received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where Michael served as Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal; Michael also practiced law in Massachusetts courts as a Student Attorney with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. Currently, Michael is

Michael Cohen is an Associate at Renne Public Law Group and a former Legal Fellow at the UCLA VRP.

Michael German is a fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program, which seeks to ensure that the U.S. government respects human rights and fundamental freedoms in conducting the fight against terrorism. A former special agent

At the time of the Colloquium, Michael McConville was the Walter Meyer Research Professor, New York University School of Law. Along with Professor Chester Mirsky, he conducted a year-long study of criminal defense systems for the indigent in New York

Michéle Alexandre was Colgate University’s first black valedictorian (majoring in English and French, with background in philosophy). She earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. After graduating from law school, she clerked for U.S. District Court Judge John P.

Professor, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. B.A., Brooklyn College, 1968; Ph.D., Yale University, 1976.

J.D. 2019, Harvard Law School; 2019–2021 Legal & Policy Fellow, National Domestic Workers Alliance.

Visiting Assistant Professor at Seattle University School of Law, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic. J.D., University of California Berkeley School of Law. See Monika Batra, Organizing in the South Asian Domestic Worker Community: Pushing the Boundaries of the Law and

Georgetown University Law Center and American University Washington College of Law. B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1972; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1975; M.A., The George Washington University, 1980.

Senior Attorney, Legal Services of New Jersey; Conference Coordinator for Helping Families in Crisis: The Intersection of Law and Psychology.

Nate A. Lindell has long written about his prison experiences on: betweenhebars.org/blogs/540/. His supporters run <facebook.com/PrometheusWrites> for him, where you may find his exposés, art, and legal updates. He may be contacted at: Nate A. Lindell #303724 For Personal Mail:

Nicolas is a graduate of the University of Chicago and New York University School of Law. He recently completed a fellowship with the Center for Appellate Litigation, where he advocated on behalf of indigent clients appealing criminal convictions. He will

Nisha Agarwal is Co-Director of the Harvard Law School Summer Theory Institute and the Director of the Health Justice Program at New York Lawyers for the PublicInterest.

Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law; Chairperson-elect, ABA Criminal Justice Section; former Assistant United States Attorney; former Director, District of Columbia Public Defender Service. L.L.B., University of Illinois, 1961; L.LM., Georgetown University, 1964.

Patricia M. Muhammad is an academic author, scholar-activist and attorney from the United States. She is the author of The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade:European Slaving Corporations, the Papacy and the Issue of Reparations (2019), The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Legacy Establishing

Professor of Law, New York University School of Law.

University Professor & Chairman Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University. Ph.D. Harvard University, J.D. Stanford University. Correspondence: Peter Blanck, University Professor & Chairman Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University, 950 Irving Avenue, Suite 446, Syracuse, NY, USA 13244 (e-mail: pblanck@syr.edu; http://bbi.syr.edu)  

Chief of Appeals, Federal Defender Unit, Legal Aid Society of New York.

Rabea Eghbariah is a human rights lawyer completing his doctoral studies at Harvard Law School.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law; former Staff Attorney, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. B.A., Carleton College, 1976; J.D., Stanford Law School, 1979.

Rayza Goldsmith, J.D., New York University School of Law 2018, is a public defender in New Jersey.

Associate Professor, City University of New York Law School at Queens College; Secretary, ABA Criminal Justice Section, 1985-86. B.A., De Pauw University, 1965; J.D., University of Illinois College of Law, 1972.

Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Ph.D. (Cultural Psychology), University of Chicago, 1990; J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1993.

Associate Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law (St. Louis). A.B., Williams College, 1973; J.D., New York University School of Law, 1977. The author contributed to the petitioner’s brief on the merits in Marek v. Chesny.

Samantha is a J.D. Candidate for 2020 at NYU School of Law, and got her B.A. in 2014 from the University of Pennsylvania. Samantha is committed to defending civil rights and civil liberties, with a particular emphasis on voting rights

J.D., 2010, New York University School of Law; B.A., 2004, Duke University. 2010-11 Sinsheimer Children’s Rights Fellow, Partnership for Children’s Rights.

My name is Shawn Younker. I am incarcerated at SCI-Green in Pennsylvania. I have just finished serving a three-year parole violation for the crime of petty theft/retail. I am a nonviolent offender, advocating for prisoner rights, parole reform, and diversionary

Sherry Leiwant is a senior staff attorney at the National Organization for WomenLegal Defense and Education Fund (NOW LDEF), working on issues related to women’spoverty, sexual harassment and reproductive rights. Prior to joining NOW LDEF in 1996, Ms. Leiwant worked

So-Young Kim is a licensed attorney with a background in business administration. She is passionate about utilizing her expertise in both fields to find solutions to corporate accountability issues.

Soohan Kim, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Korea University, Ph.D. in Sociology, Harvard University, 2011

Associate Professor of Law, University of Miami, B.A., Yeshiva College, 1974; J.D.,Columbia University, 1977. As an assistant-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., the author represented Mr. Garner before the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts.