Gabe Teninbaum is a professor and legal technologist at Suffolk University Law School. He serves as Director of the Institute on Legal Innovation & Technology (“LIT”), the LIT Concentration (akin to an undergraduate major), and the LIT Certificate (an online program for legal

Lecture Summary: The nation’s immigration courts are rapidly deteriorating. But focusing exclusively on the immigration courts reveals only part of the urgency, and tells only part of the story, associated with how deportation adjudication is unfolding in the Trump era. This talk

Lecture Summary: In the article, "Civil Rights Law in Living Color," Prof. Harpalni examines how American civil rights law has treated “color” discrimination and differentiated it from “race” discrimination. It covers views of “color” in the antebellum era, Reconstruction laws

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Learning from the Mistakes We Make: Stories about Attorney and Mediator Missteps and Implications for our Professional Ethics

Thursday, January 16, 2020
5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
William S. Boyd School of Law
Faculty Lounge
Approved for 1.5 CLE ethics credit

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Dr. Todd A. Curry is an associate professor in the Political Science department at the University of Texas at El Paso, College of Liberal Arts. He received his Ph.D from Western Michigan University in 2012. His primary area of research examines how the methods of selection and

Scott Burris, J.D., is a Professor of Law at Temple Law School, where he directs the Center for Public Health Law Research. He is also a Professor in Temple’s School of Public Health.

Burris began his career in public health law during the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He

Sam Erman is a scholar of law and history, whose research and teaching focuses on citizenship, the Constitution, empire, race, and legal change.

Erman is the author of Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution and Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2018). The book

Jorge L. Contreras teaches in the areas of intellectual property, law and science, and property law. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Utah Genome Project.

Professor Contreras has previously served on the law faculties of American University Washington College

 

Lecture Title: #SurvivedandPunished

Lecture Description:  Victims of gender based violence interact with the criminal legal system as witnesses and defendants, and often, that system punishes them for choices and crimes directly related to their own victimization.  In her new

Professor Bennett Capers is the Stanley A. August Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches Evidence, Criminal Procedure, and Criminal Law. His academic interests include the relationship between race, gender, and criminal justice, and he is a prolific writer on