Day two of a two-day long conference to bring together advocates and technical experts to develop strategies to transition away from carceral economies and reduce carceral capacity.
Co-sponsored with the Center for Immigration Law and Policy, Criminal Justice Law Review, Critical Race Studies Program, Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, Health Law and Policy Program, Promise Institute for Human Rights, and Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy.
The first day of a two-day conference to bring together advocates and technical experts to develop strategies to transition away from carceral economies and reduce carceral capacity.
Co-sponsored with the Center for Immigration Law and Policy, Criminal Justice Law Review, Critical Race Studies Program, Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, Health Law and Policy Program, Promise Institute for Human Rights, and Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy.
REGISTER HERE - https://www.aclu.org/decarceralvisions
Founder and CEO of The Bail Project Robin Steinberg will discuss her new book, The Courage of Compassion, and her career as a public defender.
Lunch will be available
Join the Criminal Justice Program and Prison Law and Policy Program for a dinner to start off the academic year, learn about the programs, and welcome the first year students.
Five outstanding professors are boosting the excellence and breadth of UCLA School of Law’s faculty as they join the law school this fall and in the coming year. Alexander Arnold, Shirin Bakhshay, Ariela Gross, K-Sue Park and Laura Pedraza-Fariña bring expertise in areas including law and economic theory, criminal adjudication and punishment, international organizations, property and legal history, race and civil rights.
Shirin Bakhshay, a legal scholar and social psychologist whose research focuses on criminal adjudication and punishment processes, has joined UCLA School of Law as an assistant professor of law. Bakhshay comes to UCLA Law from Stanford Law School, where she was a Thomas C. Grey Fellow and lecturer in law since 2020.