Legal Commentary

As mentioned in these pages earlier, FSU and the ACS are hosting a really neat conference on the future of criminal justice here in funky t-town. The schedule I circulated earlier has been updated somewhat (see below) but I hope y'all are marking your calendars for Oct 7-8th! If you're a crim prawf, lawyer, law student, or just someone interested in criminal justice issues, I hope you'll come to this (free) conference at FSU. You can register over here. Kudos to ACS, my dean (Don Weidner), my colleagues Susan Bandes, Reid Fontaine and Wayne Logan, and our wonderful support staff for making this happen. As I find out information about streaming the conference, I'll let you know. And this week and next, Jack Balkin is posting a blog post from each of the contributors up on Balkinization. (Sorry for my dithering Jack; I'm almost finished mine!) Anyway, here's the updated schedule:

Thursday, October 7:

6 p.m. - Keynote Address by Steve Bright, Southern Center for Human Rights

Friday, October 8:

8:30-8:55 a.m. - Opening Remarks Dean Don Weidner, Florida State University College of Law,  Professor Jack Balkin, Yale Law School

9-10:30 a.m. - Panel One: National Security and Liberty

Jack Balkin, Yale Law School (moderator),  Susan Herman, Brooklyn Law School and ACLU,  John Parry, Lewis & Clark Law School,  Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center,  Chris Slobogin, Vanderbilt University Law School

10:40 a.m.-12:10 p.m. - Panel Two: Crime Control and Equality

Susan Bandes, DePaul University College of Law/Florida State University College of Law (moderator and panelist),  Darryl Brown, University of Virginia School of Law,  Song Richardson, DePaul University College of Law,  David Sklansky, UC Berkeley School of Law

12:15-1:15 p.m. - Lunch: Remarks and Q & A with Judge Lynn Adelman, E.D. Wisconsin

1:20-2:50 p.m. - Panel Three: Citizenship and Community

Jack Chin, University of Arizona College of Law,  Bernard Harcourt, University of Chicago Law School,  Wayne Logan, Florida State University College of Law,  Richard Myers, UNC School of Law (moderator)

3-4:30 p.m. - Panel Four: Punishment and the Constitution

Doug Berman, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law,  Sharon Dolovich, UCLA School of Law,  Reid Fontaine, Florida State University College of Law (moderator),  Dan Markel, Florida State University College of Law