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Off to Penn to talk about the Eighth Amendment

By Douglas A. Berman

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As highlighed in this official annoucnement, I am scheduled to speak this afternoon at the start of a very interesting symposium at University of Pennsylvania Law School. The symposium is titled "Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Litigating Under the Eighth Amendment," and I hope that I will be able to talk more about this event in a series of posts over the next two days. To start, however, check out this great line-up of participants: Elizabeth Alexander (ACLU National Prison Project) Stephen Bright (Southern Center for Human Rights) Deborah Denno (Fordham University) Sharon Dolovich (UCLA and Harvard University) Richard Frase (University of Minnesota) Sarah Hart (Philadelphia District Attorney?s Office) Mark Kappelhoff (United States Department of Justice-Civil Rights Division) Youngjae Lee (Fordham University) Jules Lobel (University of Pittsburgh) David Rudovsky (University of Pennsylvania) Margo Schlanger (Washington University of St...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 15, 2008 (boomark / email).