Please join us for
NYU’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law’s 8th Annual Conference,
“Reckoning With Force: Examining the Intersecting Roles of Prosecutors, Police, and Community in Use-of-Force Cases”
7 CLE Professional Practice Credits
Date: Friday, April 8, 2016
Time: 9am-4:45 p.m. (CLE Registration begins at 8:45a.m.)
Location: Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South, NY, NY
MORNING KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY VANITA GUPTA, PRINCIPAL DEPUTY ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL AND HEAD OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
AFTERNOON KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY ROY AUSTIN, JR., DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF URBAN AFFAIRS, JUSTICE AND OPPORTUNITY, DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL
FIRST PANEL: THE FRONT LINE BEHIND THE FRONT LINE: EXAMINING THE ROLE OF THE PROSECUTOR IN USE-OF-FORCE CASES INVOLVING UNARMED CIVILIANS.
Moderator: Prof. Erin Murphy, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law. Panelists: Robert J. Moossy, Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice; John Chisholm, Milwaukee District Attorney; Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., Chief of the Special Investigations and Prosecutions Unit, New York Attorney General’s Office; Cynthia Conti-Cook, staff attorney, New York Legal Aid Society and head of the Cop Accountability Project; Deborah Gramiccioni, Executive Director of the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at New York University Law School and former Director of the Division of Criminal Justice, New Jersey Office of the Attorney General; Kevin T. Kane, Chief State’s Attorney for Connecticut
SECOND PANEL: WHO SHOULD POLICE THE POLICE: SELF-POLICING POST-FERGUSON
Moderator: Prof. Barry Friedman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Policing Project, New York University School of Law. Panelists: Christy Lopez, Deputy Chief, Special Litigation Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice; J. Scott Thomson, Chief of Police, Camden, NJ; Jane Castor, Former Chief of Police, Tampa FL; Prof. Katherine A. Levine, New York University School of Law
THIRD PANEL: COPS, PROSECUTORS AND COMMUNITY: IDENTIFYING SHARED SPACE IN USE-OF-FORCE CASES
Moderator: Anne Milgram, former New Jersey Attorney General and Senior Fellow at the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, New York University School of Law. Panelists: Baher Azmy, Legal Director, Center on Constitutional Rights and Professor at Seton Hall University School of Law; Melba Pearson, President of the National Black Prosecutor’s Association and Asst. Chief of the Career Criminal/Robbery Unit, Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office; Acting Attorney General Robert Lougy, New Jersey Office of the Attorney General; Prof. Jocelyn Simonson, Brooklyn Law School; Nancy Hoppock, Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Risk Management Bureau, New York Police Department
TO REGISTER FOR THIS CONFERENCE PLEASE CLICK HERE
CLE CREDIT WILL BE APPROPRIATE FOR BOTH EXPERIENCED AND NEWLY ADMITTED ATTORNEYS.