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On Monday March 19, 2007, the University of Miami School of Law will hold a symposium on the twentieth anniversary of McCleskey v. Kemp, where a panel of distinguished legal scholars, including Professor David Baldus, will explore the legacy of the McCleskey decision and whether it ultimately created an impenetrable barrier to the use of statistics in the context of the death penalty. The symposium will also discuss the social, historical and statistical connection between race and the death penalty; the problem of unconscious racism will also be a central focus. The Symposium will begin at 11:00am in room E-352.
Featuring:
Professor David C Baldus Author of the Baldus study presented to the Supreme Court in McCleskey v. Kemp Professor Stephen B. Bright Former Director of the Southern Center for Human Rights Christina Swarns Director of the Criminal Justice Project of the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc.
Moderator
Professor Donald M. Jones A Professor at the University of Miami School of Law and a Leading Legal Scholar in the Area of Civil Rights
Discussant
Professor Kenneth Williams A Visiting Professor at the University of Miami School of Law and a National Authority on Capital Punishment
Panelists
Professor David C Baldus: Professor David C. Baldus is a law graduate of Yale Law School and is the Joseph B. Tye professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Professor Baldus has conducted several empirical studies of the administration of the death penalty in Georgia, Colorado, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. Hxis Georgia research conducted with George Woodworth, Professor of Statistics, at the University of Iowa, became the principal focus of the United States Supreme Court case McCleskey v. Kemp. He is also the co-author of Statistical Proof of Discrimination (1980), Equal Justice and the Death Penalty (1990) and numerous articles on capital punishment.
Professor Stephen B. Bright: Professor Stephen B. Bright is a law graduate of the University of Kentucky and is a visiting professor of law at Yale Law School and Harvard Law School. Professor Bright is also the Former Director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, a public interest legal project based in Atlanta which provides legal representation to persons facing the death penalty and to prisoners challenging unconstitutional conditions in prisons and jails throughout the South. Professor Bright has represented people facing the death penalty at trials and on appeals, written essays and articles racial discrimination in the criminal justice system and testified before committees of both the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
Christina Swarns: Christina Swarns is a law graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and is the Director of the Criminal Justice Project of the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc. and is also a member of the Boards of the Death Penalty Information Center and New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty. At the Legal Defense Funds, Ms. Swarns represents individuals charged and/or convicted of criminal and capital offenses, prepares amicus briefs to various courts including the United States Supreme Court, and assists in the coordination of nation-wide strategies for criminal justice reform. Ms. Swarns is the author of How Race and Class Affects Who Ends Up on Death Row (2004)
Schedule of Events
All events will be held in Room E-352
11:00: Welcome and Introduction -
Professor Donald M. Jones
11:05: Introduction of the Panelists - Peter M. Yoxall
11:10: Panel Discussion: Race & the Death Penalty, Twenty Years After McCleskey
Professor David C. Baldus
Professor Stephen B. Bright
Cristina Swarns
12:10: Questions and Comments - Directed by Professor Kenneth Williams
12:50: Final Comment and Thanks - Professor Donald M. Jones
1:00: Faculty Luncheon
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On Monday March 19, 2007, the University of Miami School of Law will hold a symposium on the twentieth anniversary of McCleskey v. Kemp, where a panel of distinguished legal scholars, including Professor David Baldus, will explore the legacy of the McCleskey decision and whether it ultimately created an impenetrable barrier to the use of statistics in the context of the death penalty. The symposium will also discuss the social, historical and statistical connection between race and the death penalty; the problem of unconscious racism will also be a central focus. The Symposium will begin at 11:00am in room E-352.
Professor Donald M. Jones
Professor Kenneth Williams
Professor David C Baldus: Professor David C. Baldus is a law graduate of Yale Law School and is the Joseph B. Tye professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Professor Baldus has conducted several empirical studies of the administration of the death penalty in Georgia, Colorado, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. Hxis Georgia research conducted with George Woodworth, Professor of Statistics, at the University of Iowa, became the principal focus of the United States Supreme Court case McCleskey v. Kemp. He is also the co-author of Statistical Proof of Discrimination (1980), Equal Justice and the Death Penalty (1990) and numerous articles on capital punishment.
Professor Stephen B. Bright: Professor Stephen B. Bright is a law graduate of the University of Kentucky and is a visiting professor of law at Yale Law School and Harvard Law School. Professor Bright is also the Former Director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, a public interest legal project based in Atlanta which provides legal representation to persons facing the death penalty and to prisoners challenging unconstitutional conditions in prisons and jails throughout the South. Professor Bright has represented people facing the death penalty at trials and on appeals, written essays and articles racial discrimination in the criminal justice system and testified before committees of both the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
Christina Swarns: Christina Swarns is a law graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and is the Director of the Criminal Justice Project of the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc. and is also a member of the Boards of the Death Penalty Information Center and New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty. At the Legal Defense Funds, Ms. Swarns represents individuals charged and/or convicted of criminal and capital offenses, prepares amicus briefs to various courts including the United States Supreme Court, and assists in the coordination of nation-wide strategies for criminal justice reform. Ms. Swarns is the author of How Race and Class Affects Who Ends Up on Death Row (2004)
