Academic Panel Discussion
Defunding the Police: A Conversation
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (EDT) | via Zoom
Join us for a panel conversation among leading criminal law scholars about the nationwide movement to defund the police. The discussion will offer critical perspectives on the meaning of activist calls to defund the police, how defunding relates to abolitionist social movements, and crises in American policing that inform these movements.
The panelists include experts on the intersections between criminal law and sociology, local government, disability theory, and anti-carceral social movements. Our guests include:
Monica Bell
Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Associate Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Allegra McLeod
Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Jamelia N. Morgan
Associate Professor of Law & Robert D. Glass Research Scholar
University of Connecticut School of Law
Rick Su
Professor of Law
University of North Carolina School of Law
Moderator
Anthony O'Rourke
Professor of Law & Director of the Advocacy Institute
University at Buffalo School of Law
To attend the Zoom webinar, please register online: https://www.law.buffalo.edu/news/defund ... olice.html. Upon registering, a Zoom webinar invitation will be sent to the email address you provide.
Questions? Please contact the Law Communications Office at law-communications@buffalo.edu.
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