400 Years: Slavery and the Criminal
Justice System
Friday, November 15, 2019
2:00 pm - 6:30 pm
2 pm - 2:30 pm2:30 pm - 2:45 pmWelcome
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Registration/Check-In
Alana Glover
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2:45 pm - 3:20 pmOpening Keynote
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Introduction:
Paul Finkelman
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Break |
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3:30 pm - 4:30 pmSlavery and the Constitution
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Introduction: Michelle Sloan, Black Law Student Association Moderator: Prof. F. Michael Higginbotham, UBalt School of Law
From Liberalism to Neoliberalism, the Constitution and the Legacies of Slavery in the Criminal Justice System Taking Slavery Seriously in Constitutional LawJeff Schmitt, Associate Professor of Law, University of Dayton 400 Years of Perseverance and the LawGloria J. Browne-Marshall, Professor of Constitutional Law, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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4:30 pm - 5:30 pmThe Reconstruction Period, Jim Crow, and Mass Incarceration |
Introduction: Sumbul Alam, UBalt Law Review Moderator: Prof. Jose Anderson, UBalt School of Law Mass Incarceration Before Emancipation: Slave Penology in Louisiana, 1805-1862John Bardes, PhD candidate, Tulane University A Call to Action: Breaking the Chains of Collateral ConsequencesArtika Tyner, Director of the Center on Race, Leadership and Social Justice, University of St. Thomas |
5:30 pmClosing Keynote |
Introduction: Reginald Smallwood, III, Roy Austin, former Deputy Assistant to the President for the Office of Urban Affairs, Justice and Opportunity in the Obama Administration |
6 pm - 6:30 pmMeet the Speakers |
Saturday, November 16, 2019
9:45 am - 3:30 pm
9:45 am - 10:15 am10:15 am - 10:30 amWelcome
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Registration/Check-In
Alana Glover
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10:30 am - 11:45 amCurrent State of Mass Incarceration |
Introduction: Tia Holmes
Moderator: Prof. Cassandra Jones Havard, UBalt School of Law Privately Owned Prisons: Perpetuating the Persistent Tragedy of Slavery in the United StatesAndre Douglas Pond Cummings, Associate Professor of Law, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law Slaves of the State: Forced Servitude and the Return of Inmate Pay to the StateDaniel N. Clay, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, Feeding the Machine: Private Prisons and the Commodification of Black Bodies in the Age of Mass IncarcerationCecil Hunt, II, Professor of Law, University of Illinois at Chicago, John Marshall Law School Anti-Blackness in the Courts: Reframing Colorblind Theory as a Totem of White SupremacyTammie Szafran, Attorney/Advocate |
11:45 am - 1 pmThe School to Prison Pipeline: The Mass Incarceration of Black Youth |
Introduction: Autumn Lee, Criminal Law Moderator: Prof. Jane Murphy, UBalt School of Law Just Another Fast Girl: Exploring Slavery's Continued Impact on the Loss of Black GirlhoodMikah Thompson, Associate Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City Losing Our Innocence: The Impact of the "De-Childification" of Black Youth from Slavery to the Current Juvenile Justice SystemTiffany Jeffers, Assistant Professor of Legal Writing, Penn State Dickinson Law The New Middle PassageChristopher Hill, Instructor/LL.M. Fellow, University of DC Law Legislation Clinic |
Luncheon (sponsored by the UBalt Black Law Student Association)
1:45 pm - 2:45 pmProsecution v. Defense: Collaborative Methods to Reduce Mass Incarceration |
Introduction: Jalen Sanders
Moderator: Prof. Colin Starger, UBalt School of Law
Brianna Ford, Deputy Director,
Aisha N. Braveboy, State's Attorney for Prince George's County, Md. Kristen Downs, District Public Defender for Baltimore City, Md. |
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm
Closing |
Introduction: Alana Glover, UBalt Law Review |