Panel A: Big Data and the Criminal Justice System

Schedule for Crim Fest (current as of May 1)

Monday, July 21

9:00 am – 10:30 am

Panel A: Big Data and the Criminal Justice System

Elina Treyger – Collateral Incentives to Arrest

Michael Rich – Policing Algorithms

Jason Kreag – Letting Innocence Suffer: The Need for Defense Access to the Law Enforcement DNA Database

Stephen Rushin (commentator)

Panel B: Criminal Procedure Problems

Ion Meyn – The Unbearable Lightness of Criminal Procedure

Alex Kreit – Facial Challenges and the Fourth Amendment

Melanie Reid (commentator)

10:40 am – 12:10 pm

Panel A: Using Empirical Tools to Answer Criminal Justice Questions

JaneAnne Murray – Guilty Pleas, Criminal History, and Informed Consent

Shima Baradaran – Drugs and Violence

Avlana Eisenberg – Criminal Justice Feedback and the Prison Industry

Bob Schopp (commentator)

Panel B: Community and Law Enforcement

Caren Myers Morrison – The Sixth Amendment as Systemic Prescription

Laura Appleman – Defining Community in the 21st Century: Cities, Counties, and Collective Action

Jocelyn Simonson – Copwatching

Alice Ristroph (commentator)

12:10 pm – 1:15 pm

LUNCH (provided)

1:15 pm – 2:45 pm

Panel A: Sentencing in the United States

Carissa Hessick – Towards a Theory of Mitigation

Danny Markel – Luck or Law: The Remedy for the Right Against Indeterminate Sentencing

Cecilia Klingele – Beyond Control: Reframing Sentencing and Correctional Reform

Stephanos Bibas (commentator)

Panel B: Policing Problems

LaurentSacharoff – The Fourth Amendment and Subjectivity—Recent Changes

Jordan Woods – Rethinking Noncriminal Traffic Stops under the Fourth Amendment

John Rappaport – Second Order Regulation of Law Enforcement

Eric Miller (commentator)

2:50 pm – 4:20 pm

Panel A: Theoretical Perspectives on Criminal Law

Paul Litton – Physiological versus Experimental Scientific Explanations of Criminal Behavior: Is Either Relevant to Desert?

Adam Kolber – How to Smooth Criminal Law

Bob Schopp – Competence for Execution, Human Dignity, and the Expressive Functions of Punishment

Stuart Green (commentator)

Panel B: Pretrial Defense Issues

Miriam Baer – Timing Brady

Thea Johnson – What You Should Have Known Can Hurt You: Knowledge, Access, and Brady in the Balance

Lauryn Gouldin – Eliminating Flight Risk

Ion Meyn (commentator)

4:25 pm – 5:55 pm

Panel A: International Criminal Justice

Nancy Combs – From Prosecutorial to Reparatory: A Valuable Post-Conflict Change of Focus

Darryl Robinson – Where Can We Find the Fundamental Principles of International Criminal Law?

Jenia Turner – Disclosure and Witness Protection at the International Criminal Court

Alex Whiting – Investigations and Institutional Imperatives at the ICC

Panel B: Evidence and the Criminal Justice System

Seth Stoughton – Experience, Expertise, and Error

Clifford Fishman – Character Evidence, Habit, and Impeachment

Richard Bierschbach – The Exclusionary Rule as a Federal Rule of Evidence

John Rappaport (commentator)

6:00 pm -- ??

DRINKS (Location TBA)

Tuesday, July 22

9:00 am – 10:30 am

Panel A: Policing Theory

Eric J. Miller – Police Faction: Towards a Republican Theory of Policing

Rachel Harmon – The Analytic Structure of Legal Authority for Police Coercion

Nirej Sekhon – Purpose, Policing, and the State

Cecilia Klingele (commentator)

Panel B: Exploring Criminal Justice Issues from a Critical Perspective

Josephine Ross – “Spread ‘em!”: Critical Race, Feminist, and Queer Theories of Stop & Frisk

Cynthia Godsoe – Victims, Offenders & Role Deviation in the Criminal Law

Todd Haugh – The Most Senior Wall Street Official: The Case of Kareem Serageldin and the State of Financial Crisis Prosecutions

Bijal Shah (commentator)

10:40 am – 12:10 pm

Panel A: Criminal Procedure Theory

Vincent Chiao – Discretion and Domination in Criminal Procedure

Darryl Brown – Public and Private Responsibility in Criminal Adjudication

Alice Ristroph – Civilizing Criminal Procedure

Richard Bierschbach (commentator)

Panel B: Frontiers of Law Enforcement

Stephen Rushin – Constitutional Policing Without Compromise

Stephen Henderson – Drones and the Constitution: Model Legislation for Public and Private Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems

Melanie Reid – Grounding Drones: Big Brother’s Tool Box Needs Regulation Not Elimination

Seth Stoughton (commentator)

12:10 pm – 1:15 pm

LUNCH (provided)

1:15 pm – 2:45 pm

Panel A: Agency and Liability Problems in Substantive Criminal Law

Amy Sepinwall – Faultless Wrongdoing: Toward a Relationship-Based Account of Culpability

James Stewart – The Accomplice Liability of Arms Dealers: A Conceptual Defense

Steven Morrison – Membership Crime

Miriam Baer (commentator)

Panel B: Trial Rights

Lea Johnston – A Right to Hybrid Counsel at Criminal Trials

Anna Roberts – Asymmetry as Fairness: Reversing a Peremptory Trend

Michael Mannheimer – Gideon, Miranda, and the Perils of Presumptions

Stephen Henderson (commentator)

2:50 pm – 4:20 pm

Panel A: Defining Offenses and Defenses

David Kwok – Pharmaceutical Off-Label Marketing and Fair Competition Under a Theory of Restitution & Unjust Enrichment

Anders Kaye – Fallen Avatars: Why Sex for Film Isn’t Prostitution

Maggie Lewis – When Foreign is Criminal

Daniel Morales – Crimes of Migration

Michelle Dempsey (commentator)

Panel B: National Security and Extraterritorial Criminal Justice

Lawrence Rosenthal – The Accounts Clause as a National Security Freedom of Information Act

Jennifer Daskal – Transnational Seizures: The Constitution Abroad

Jesse Norris – Why the FBI and the Courts are Wrong About Terrorism and Entrapment

Jonathan Witmer-Rich – The Fatal Flaw of the Sneak and Peek Statute, and How to Fix It

Cliff Fishman (commentator)