CrimPro AALS Section events later this week

With the AALS Annual Meeting coming up next week in San Francisco, I wanted to plug a handful of events that the AALS Criminal Procedure Section will be hosting at the conference. Hope to see some of you there!

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Wednesday, January 8:

12:50 – 2:20

Looking Back-and Forward-After Twenty Years of Crawford v. Washington (Criminal Procedure, Co-Sponsored by Evidence)

In Crawford v. Washington the Supreme Court set out a new framework for analyzing Confrontation Clause claims. Crawford issues are among the most frequently litigated questions in criminal cases. Crawford offers a case study on constitutional interpretation, the evolution of precedent, and the systemic consequences of making more difficult the prosecution of crimes against especially vulnerable victims. Crawford will continue to raise difficult and important questions, as shown by last term's decision in Smith v. Arizona – a case that decided one difficult issue but dodged another. This panel will discuss Crawford's past, present, and future.

Speakers:

Donald A. Dripps, University of San Diego School of Law

Richard D. Friedman (Moderator), The University of Michigan Law School

Erin E. Murphy, New York University School of Law

Erin Sheley, California Western School of Law

Emily Spottswood, Florida State University College of Law

 

12:50-2:20

Privacy and Racial Justice (Defamation and Privacy, Co-Sponsored by Children and the Law, Criminal Procedure, Employment Discrimination Law, Jurisprudence, and Poverty Law)

This program will highlight the contributions of African Americans and other people of color to U.S. privacy jurisprudence and will explore how despite these contributions people of color continue to disproportionately suffer privacy infringements in their homes and in public. This program will emphasize how surveillance, tracking, and data mining techniques always has and continues to intensify the racialized privacy regime in the U.S.

Speakers

Anita L. Allen, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Chaz Arnett, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Norrinda Brown, Fordham University School of Law

Abi Hassen, Penn State Dickinson Law

Najarian Peters, University of Kansas School of Law

Shaakirrah Sanders (Moderator), Penn State Dickinson Law

Friday, January 10:

8:00 – 9:30 am

Criminal Procedure Beyond the Casebook

The conventional casebook is giving way to new methods of pedagogy, including the customized do-it-yourself casebook and the integration of new technologies. Yet Criminal Procedure comprises a relatively narrow band of Supreme Court cases and doctrinal "buckets" that future criminal lawyers must know. How do we innovate with newer technology in order to develop these core concepts? Do we need to go beyond the conventional casebook to achieve these goals? This panel will examine fresh ideas on how to enhance the student learning experience in Criminal Procedure, in terms of both supplementing and supplanting the conventional casebook approach. 

Panelists:

Shih-Chun "Steven" Chien, Cleveland State University College of Law

John J. Francis, Washburn University School of Law

Stephen Galoob, The University of Tulsa College of Law

Stephen E. Henderson, University of Oklahoma College of Law

Michael J. Mannheimer (Moderator), Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law

Alexandra Natapoff, Harvard Law School

 

9:50-11:20 am

Pregnancy Crimes: New Research and Advocacy (Criminal Law, Co-Sponsored by Criminal Procedure, Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Issues, and Law, Medicine and Health Care)

This panel addresses trends in policing, prosecution, and punishment related to pregnancy outcomes. In keeping with the conference theme of "Courage in Action," the panel highlights advocacy efforts against the use of criminal systems to surveil, regulate, and punish pregnancy outcomes. The panel will address who is being prosecuted for their actions during or the outcomes of their pregnancies; the crimes are being charged and what evidence is deemed sufficient proof; how these cases being litigated, and by whom; and how the trends in pregnancy prosecutions intersect with race, gender, gender identity, sexuality, poverty, rurality, and access to health care. 

Panelists:

Wendy A. Bach, University of Tennessee College of Law

Valena E. Beety, Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Mary D. M. Fan, University of Washington School of Law

Eve Hanan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Cortney E. Lollar (Moderator), Georgia State University College of Law

Brenda V. Smith, American University, Washington College of Law

Karen Thompson, Pregnancy Justice

12:50-2:20 pm

New Perspectives on Fourth Amendment Suspicion (Criminal Procedure, Co-Sponsored by Criminal Law)

In many respects Fourth Amendment doctrine has evolved to expand law enforcement power to act on suspicions, frequently to the disadvantage of disfavored groups. Reversing these patterns is not just a matter of academic interest but a pressing need, amplified with the advent of more intrusive and pervasive surveillance technologies. Participants in this discussion will address the ways that suspicion is defined and constructed, its role (or failed potential) in constraining government power, the need for alternatives to suspicion to regulate mass data surveillance, and the potential for suspicion to serve as cover for bias.

Panelists:

 Alyse Bertenthal, Wake Forest University School of Law

Mary D. M. Fan, University of Washington School of Law

Andrew G. Ferguson, American University, Washington College of Law

Barry Friedman, New York University School of Law

Lauryn Gouldin (Moderator), Syracuse University College of Law

Aliza Hochman Bloom, Northeastern University School of Law

Michael J. Mannheimer, Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law

Jamelia N. Morgan, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

Nirej Sekhon, Georgia State University College of Law

Maneka Sinha, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Saturday, January 11:

8:00 am - 9:30 am

Criminal Procedure Works-in-Progress 

Participants will present their groundbreaking works-in-progress in the field of criminal procedure, selected through a competitive vetting process. 

Panelists:

Emmanuel H. Arnaud, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Nila Bala, University of California, Davis, School of Law

Justin Murray (Moderator), New York Law School

Eileen Prescott, Wake Forest University School of Law

Mridula S. Raman, University of California, Berkeley School of Law

Miranda Thompson, Widener University Commonwealth Law School

Quinn Yeargain, Michigan State University College of Law

 

9:50-11:20 am

Prison Law: Operating in the Shadows (Criminal Law, Co-Sponsored by Civil Rights and Criminal Procedure)

Prison law is emerging as its own unique domain of scholarship where civil law operates within the criminal law space to focus specifically on the impact incarceration has on an individual beyond their conviction. This panel features a diverse set of works-in-progress that provide important descriptive and analytical accounts that illuminate new developments in prisons and prison law–they also deepen our understanding of how incarceration and the civil justice system function in our system of criminal law.

Panelists:

 Paulina D. Arnold, The University of Michigan Law School

Nicole B. Godfrey, University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Danielle C. Jefferis, University of Nebraska College of Law

Benjamin Levin (Moderator), Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

Zina Makar, University of Baltimore School of Law

Tiffany Yang, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law