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DESCRIPTION:First 150 registrants will enjoy a free copy of Dismantling Mas
 s Incarceration!\n\n\nOn March 13th at LMU Loyola Law School\, Professor Ja
 mes Forman\, Jr.\, will deliver a distinguished lecture on how to achieve m
 eaningful and lasting criminal justice reform\, drawing from his most recen
 t book\, Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change. \n\nFollowi
 ng the lecture\, LLS Professor and criminal justice scholar Michael Serota 
 will moderate a lively panel discussion with three of the nation’s leading 
 voices on criminal justice issues: Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU Yasmin
  Cader\; renowned community organizer Raj Jayadev\; and LLS Professor and c
 riminal justice scholar Priscilla Ocen.\n\nBook signing & outdoor reception
  to follow with live music from Geoff Gallegos '20\, award-winning musician
  and frequent collaborator with Grammy-winning artists.\n\nDismantling Mass
  Incarceration is a first-of-its-kind anthology of actionable policy soluti
 ons to the imprisonment crisis in the United States\, as proposed by reform
  advocates\, policy experts\, community organizers\, and those who’ve been 
 formerly incarcerated. The anthology is co-edited by Professors Premal Dhar
 ia (Harvard)\, James Forman\, Jr. (Yale)\, and Maria Hawilo (Loyola Chicago
 ).\n\nAbout the Participants\n\n \n\nJames Forman\, Jr.\, the J. Skelly Wri
 ght Professor at Yale Law School\, is one of the nation’s most insightful a
 nd influential scholars on criminal justice issues. His scholarship address
 es schools\, police\, and prisons with a particular focus on the race and c
 lass dimensions of those institutions. Prior to entering academia\, Profess
 or Forman worked for many years as a public defender in Washington D.C.\, w
 hile also founding impactful institutions committed to uplifting the disadv
 antaged and poor people of color\, such as the Maya Angelou Public Charter 
 School for previously arrested youth. Among many other scholarly accomplish
 ments\, in 2018\, Professor Forman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Gener
 al Nonfiction for his first book\, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment
  in Black America. Professor Forman’s second book is Dismantling Mass Incar
 ceration.\n\n \n\nYasmin Cader is a Deputy Legal Director at the ACLU and t
 he Director of the Trone Center for Justice and Equality. In her 30-year ca
 reer as a civil rights lawyer and public defender in Washington\, D.C.\, Ne
 w York\, and Los Angeles\, she has been at the front lines of the fight for
  racial justice and brings a unique perspective and creative vision to addr
 essing the most important issues facing our country. Prior to joining the A
 CLU\, Yasmin was the co-founder of Cader Adams Trial Lawyers\, a women-owne
 d litigation boutique in Los Angeles.\n\n \n\nRaj Jayadev is the co-founder
  of Silicon Valley De-Bug\, which is an organization that focuses on commun
 ity organizing\, advocacy\, and multimedia storytelling. Through De-Bug's c
 riminal justice community program\, Raj developed “participatory defense\,”
  which is a community model that was developed for families whose loved one
 s are facing the criminal court system. Raj’s community work and writings h
 ave been featured in the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, BBC\, TIME Magazin
 e and media outlets across the country. In 2018\, Raj was awarded a multi-y
 ear “Genius Grant” from the MacArthur Foundation. \n\n \n\nPriscilla Ocen i
 s a Professor at LLS and one of the nation’s leading criminal justice schol
 ars. Her scholarship explores the ways in which the intersection of race\, 
 gender and class make women of color vulnerable to various forms of violenc
 e and criminalization. Professor Ocen’s writing has appeared in leading aca
 demic journals such as the California Law Review and the UCLA Law Review\, 
 as well as popular media outlets such as the Atlantic Magazine and Ebony. P
 rofessor Ocen is also the co-author of the influential policy report\, Blac
 k Girls Matter: Pushed Out\, Overpoliced and Underprotected. Most recently\
 , Professor Ocen served as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the Cal
 ifornia Department of Justice\, where she advised Attorney General Rob Bont
 a on issues related to criminal justice reform.\n\n \n\nMichael Serota is a
  Professor at LLS and an internationally recognized scholar who focuses on 
 the development and reform of criminal laws. Professor Serota specializes i
 n running long term interdisciplinary projects which bring together experts
  from across academia and the policy world to study empirical questions abo
 ut the criminal law. Professor Serota is the author of more than 20 scholar
 ly articles and essays\, which have been cited hundreds of times\, includin
 g by state and federal courts\, casebooks\, and legal treatises. Professor 
 Serota also advises state governments\, reform organizations\, and media ou
 tlets on criminal justice reform issues\, building on his years of experien
 ce working as a code reformer and legislative drafter in Washington D.C.
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LOCATION:Robinson Courtroom\, Loyola Law School
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SUMMARY:The Future of Criminal Justice Reform
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