Past Events

A WATCHED SYSTEM FORUM
November 15, 2012
1:00pm to 3:00pm
Room 105, Boalt Hall
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THE 2012 CALEB FOOTE SYMPOSIUM
CHALLENGES OF THE CA JUSTICE SYSTEM THEN AND NOW
THE PROFESSIONAL LEGACY OF ALLEN BREED
March 16, 2012
Room 105, Boalt Hall

Panel Discussions:

A New Era for the California Juvenile Justice System

Holding the Correction System Accountable

Legacy of Allen Breed

Race & Mass Incarceration

Realignment

View from the Bench

Realignment: A Bold New Day in California Criminal Justice
October 27, 2011
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall

A Warren Institute Forum on the future of the California Juvenile Justice System
April 19, 2011
Room 110, Boalt Hall

Susan Herman
Pace University and author of the book Parallel Justice for Victims of Crime
“Parallel Justice for Victims of Crime”
April 4, 2011
Room 134, Boalt Hall

What’s New: Opportunities for Students
March 17, 2011
Room 244, Boalt Hall

BCCJ Co-Sponsored Event: Mona Lynch
School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine
“Mass Incarceration, Legal Change, and Locale: Understanding and Remediating American Penal Overindulgence”
March 8, 2011
Goldberg Room (297), Boalt Hall

BCCJ Talk: Emil W. Plywaczewski
Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, University of Bialystok, Poland
“Democratic Transition and Crime Control From the Central European Perspective”
Nov 16, 2010
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

BCCJ Roundtable: Paul Butler
George Washington University Law School
with response by Paul Henderson
Chief of Administration, San Francisco District Attorney’s Office
“Should Good People Be Prosecutors?”
April 23, 2010
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

BCCJ / Warren Institute Talk: Michelle Alexander
Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
“The New Jim Crow”
April 15, 2010
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

BCCJ Roundtable: Trevor Gardner
Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology and former Deputy Federal Public Defender
“Black-on-Black Policing”: African-American Police and the Negotiation of Marginalized Identity in American Criminal Justice
March 19, 2010
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

BCCJ Roundtable: Alexandra Natapoff
Loyola Law School
“Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice”
January 22, 2010
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

BCCJ / CSLS Talk: Charles Weisselberg
Berkeley Law School
“Big Law’s Sixth Amendment”
November 30, 2009
2240 Piedmont Avenue

BCCJ Roundtable: Carolyn Ramsey
University of Colorado Law School
“Provoking Change: Comparative Insights on Feminist Homicide Law Reform”
November 20, 2009
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

The 2009 Caleb Foote Symposium:
New Directions for American Drug Policy?
November 13, 2009
Boalt Hall School of Law

Social Networks: Friends or Foes?
Confronting Online Legal and Ethical Issues in the Age of Social Networking
October 23, 2009
Bancroft Hotel, 2680 Bancroft Way

BCCJ / CSLS Talk: Franklin Zimring
Berkeley Law School
“Political Change and the Death Penalty in Asia: The Lessons of Regional Comparison”
October 5, 2009
2240 Piedmont Avenue

BCCJ Roundtable: Katherine Barnes
University of Arizona, Rogers College of Law
“Measuring Culpability”
September 18, 2009
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

BCCJ Roundtable: Erin Murphy
Berkeley Law School
“Relative Doubt: Partial Match or “Familial” Searches of DNA Databases”
April 10, 2009
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

BCCJ / BCLB Talk: Sam Buell
Washington University
“Good Faith Is A State of Mind”
April 3, 2009
Dean’s Seminar Room, Boalt Hall

BCCJ Roundtable: Mark Kleiman
UCLA School of Public Affairs
“When Brute Force Fails”
March 20, 2009
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

BCCJ Roundtable: Alice Ristroph
Seton Hall Law School
“Criminal Law in the Shadow of Violence”
February 27, 2009
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

The Next Department of Justice
November 24, 2008
Boalt Hall School of Law

BCCJ Roundtable: Amy Lerman
Princeton University
“Learning to Walk “the Toughest Beat”: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Role of Prison Context in Shaping Correctional Officer Attitudes towards Rehabilitation”
“2006 California Correctional Officer Survey”
November 14, 2008
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

BCCJ Roundtable: Jeannie Suk
Harvard Law School
“At Home in the Law”
“Is Privacy a Woman?”
October 17, 2008
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

The 2008 Caleb Foote Symposium:
Prison Reform in California
October 10, 2008
Boalt Hall School of Law

BCCJ / ISSC Talk: The Deterrence Effect of Adult Sanctions: New Evidence from New Orleans, 1973-1986
Justin McCrary
Berkeley Law School
Robert MacCoun
Berkeley Law School and Goldman School of Public Policy
September 16, 2008
ISSC Conference Room, 2420 Bowditch Street

BCCJ Roundtable: Steven Raphael
Goldman School of Public Policy
“Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?”
September 5, 2008
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

BCCJ Roundtable: Robert MacCoun
Berkeley Law School
“Do Citizens Accurately Perceive Marijuana Sanction Risks? A Test of a Critical Assumption in Deterrence Theory and the Decriminalization Debate.”
April 18, 2008
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

Angela J. Davis
American University
Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor
With response by James Fox, San Mateo County District Attorney
March 12, 2008
Room 110, Boalt Hall

BCCJ Roundtable: Geoff Ward
University of California, Irvine
“Getting Out of Proportion: Revisiting the Racial Politics of American Juvenile Justice”
February 29, 2008
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

BCCJ Roundtable: Tracey Meares
Yale Law School & Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice
“Attention Felons: Evaluating Project Safe Neighborhoods in Chicago, Part II”
February 8, 2008
Boalt Hall, Goldberg Room

Community Policing in Three Dimensions
December 12, 13 & 14, 2007
Australian National University

BCCJ Roundtable: Jenia Iontcheva Turner
SMU Dedman School of Law
“Defense Perspectives on the Tension Between Politics and Law in International Criminal Trials”
November 9, 2007
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

Juvenile Justice Reform: Forty Years After Gault
October 26 & 27, 2007
Boalt Hall School of Law

BCCJ Roundtable: Charles Weisselberg
Berkeley Law School
“Mourning Miranda”
October 19, 2007
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room

BCCJ Roundtable: George Fisher
Stanford Law School
“Married to Alcohol: The Drug War’s Moral Roots”
September 7, 2007
Boalt Hall, Dean’s Seminar Room