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2011 Symposium
"Perspectives on the Death Penalty: Comparative Solutions from the Classroom to the Courtroom"
Friday, November 11, 2011
8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
University of Minnesota Law School
Walter F. Mondale Hall, Lockhart Hall (Room 25)
4.75 General CLE Credits and 1 Elimination of Bias Credit
have been approved
Cost: $25 for Attorneys (and all others outside the University of Minnesota)
Free and No Registration Required for Students, Faculty, and Staff
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Agenda
| 7:15-8:00 |
Breakfast & Sign-In |
| 8:00-8:15 |
Introduction
Robin M. Maher, Director, ABA Death Penalty Representation Project
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| 8:15-9:00 |
Keynote Address: "Changing Efforts to Reform American Capital Punishment: An Historical Perspective"
Jordan M. Steiker, Judge Robert M. Parker Endowed Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law
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| 9:05-9:55 |
Presentation: "Race and the Death Penalty"
Jin Hee Lee, Assistant Counsel of the Criminal Justice Program, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund
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| 10:00-11:30 |
Panel: "Due Process Concerns in Death Penalty Litigation"
- Jury Instructions for the Finding of Mitigation: Mills v. Maryland and Smith v. Spisak
Judith L. Ritter, Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic, Widener Law School, Co-Counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal
- The Illinois Experience: Changes over Time in Death Penalty Sentencing
Andrea D. Lyon, Professor of Law and Director, Center for Justice in Capital Cases, DePaul University College of Law
- Civil Rights Trials for Exonerees
Charles J. Lloyd, Livgard & Lloyd, PLLP
- Peter Thompson, Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota Law School, Retired Criminal Defense Lawyer (Moderator)
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| 11:30-12:30 |
Lunch in Auerbach Commons
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| 12:30-1:30 |
Panel: "How Volunteer Law Firm Lawyers Ensure Justice for Death Row Inmates"
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| 1:35-2:20 |
Presentation: "Eyewitness Identification Evidence and Reform"
Nancy K. Steblay, Professor of Psychology, Augsburg College
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| 2:25-3:30 |
Closing Commentary: "Reform & Abolition in Illinois"
Robert Warden, Professor, Executive Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University Law School
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| 3:30-5:00 |
Reception in Auerbach Commons |
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