What Lawyers (and soon-to-be-lawyers) Can Do to Ensure Constitutional Policing
Roy L. Austin, Jr.
Deputy Assistant to President Obama
Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs, Justice and Opportunity
Monday, February 2, 2015
12:25-1:50 p.m.
Furman Hall Room 212
Last December’s grand jury decisions not to indict the police officers involved in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, as well as other recent police shootings of unarmed black men and boys, have raised urgent concerns about racial profiling, excessive force, and police accountability. These events have also prompted questions about whether the law and lawyers can play an effective role in helping to promote reform.
Roy Austin has devoted much of his recent career to addressing these issues — currently at the White House and before that as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, where he worked on litigation involving NYPD stop-and-frisk, and police practices in New Orleans, Maricopa County, Arizona and other jurisdictions. He will speak and answer questions, in a discussion moderated by Professor Stephen Schulhofer.