November 18: Current Challenges in Reproductive Health Care: Medical, Policy & Legal Perspectives

Dr. Larkins-Pettigrew and Dr. Abigail Moncrieff (C|M|LAW) will focus on reproductive health care challenges for women overall, with a focus on low-income women and women of color.
They will cover pregnancy, maternal health and infant death, abortion and the impact of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, and fertility treatment.

Title:
Current Challenges in Reproductive Health Care: Medical, Policy & Legal Perspectives
When/Where:
Friday, November 18

2022 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Online Via Zoom, or In Person at
Moot Court Room, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland State University
1801 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44115

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Speakers:

Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew

• Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew is an international diversity, inclusion and equity expert, healthcare strategist, clinical OB/Gyn, professor, author and maternal/infant health care equity advocate. She is currently the first Senior Vice President/Chief Clinical Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer (CCDEIO) of Allegheny Health Network / Highmark Enterprise in Pittsburgh, Pa and the founder/CEO/President of WONDOOR (now JUSTWONDOOR), Women and Newborns, Diversity, Outreach, Opportunity and Research, a program that aims to educate global medical providers through local and international health care collaborations. Her passion for advocating for health equity and building programs that aim to improve outcomes for women, people of color, vulnerable and marginalized communities has been a common thread throughout her highly-respected 30-year career and commitment to ongoing service.   Larkins-Pettigrew is also the author of an autobiography, The Colors of My Heart: Embracing My Blackness with History, Family, Fear, and Faith, a personal and professional testament to the experiences that guide her grit and success navigating race, sexism, politics to become a changemaker, inspire hope and for a more a promising path.

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  Dr. Abigail R. Moncrieff

  Dr. Abigail R. Moncrieff is Associate Professor of Law and Political Science at Cleveland State University and Cleveland Marshall College of Law, and she serves as Co-Director of the Center for Health Law & Policy at C|M Law. Dr. Moncrieff's research and writing draw on a wide range of disciplines to illuminate legal, political, and social issues at the intersection of health law and constitutional law. She has published articles on health law and constitutional theory in Columbia Law Review, U. Penn Law Review, and Boston University Law Review, among others, and she is currently working on an ambitious reconceptualization of the American constitutional order in her book-in-progress, Constitutional Technocracy.

Credit:
1.0 hours pending
By:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law / Cleveland State University/Sponsored by the Center for Health Law and Policy

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September 29: Ruined: Language Use And Choice By Judges At Sentencing In Rape And Sexual Assault Cases

Judges play a critical role in one of the most important states of a criminal case’s adjudication—sentencing. While there have been substantial limitations placed on the discretion judges can exercise in devising punishments, there are little to none on what judges say at such hearings when articulating their rationales for the sentences they impose on convicted defendants. In her lecture, Professor Romero will examine the language judges use when sentencing defendants convicted rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse that describes victims of those crimes and the harms they have sustained, especially language that describes victims as “ruined,” “broken,” or “destroyed.” Professor Romero argues that the use of such language, while apparently meant to be empathetic, only serves to uphold misogynistic understandings of rape and sexual assault and actively harms victims. Judges trying to justify harsh sentences for defendants convicted of sex crimes also engage in shaming and exploitation of victims when saying that defendants have left victims “ruined” at sentencing.

Title:
Ruined: Language Use And Choice By Judges At Sentencing In Rape And Sexual Assault Cases
When/Where:
Thursday, September 29, 2022 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Moot Court Room
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland State University
1801 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44115

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Speaker:
Maybell Romero, Felder-Fayard Associate Professor of Law at the Tulane University School of Law Credit:
1 hour pending
By:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law / Cleveland State University

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April 13: Listening To Defendants

Professor Bennett Capers

Professor Capers plans to discuss all the ways we silence criminal defendants, and will make the argument that we have gotten everything wrong. Specifically, he argues that we would be better off if we listened to defendants. Listening to defendants has the potential to help us rethink why people offend. It has the potential to contribute to rehabilitation and perceptions of legitimacy. It can benefit victims by facilitating something akin to restorative justice and by allowing victims their own right of confrontation. And it can benefit the rest of us as well.

Title:
Listening To Defendants
Criminal Justice Forum
When/Where:
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 

5:00pm - 6:00pm 

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Speaker:
Bennett Capers, Professor of Law and Director of Center on Race, Law & Justice, Fordham University School of Law 
Credit:
1.5 free hours
By:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law / Cleveland State University

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February 24: Cleveland: Crimmigrators

Since the events of September 11, 2001, crimmigration scholars around the world have uncovered the use of seemingly ordinary powers to accomplish extraordinary things: mass deportation, surveillance, policing, and detention and incarceration, in ways that globally change the shape of migration. While the study of crimmigration usually dissects its elements and the powers that animate it, we miss a critical question if we ignore who is tasked to use those powers. The decision about who will decide a crimmigration issue can shape the decision itself, and confine or define its resolution. Three case studies illuminate how changing the decisionmaker to or from a criminal justice actor to another official or institution located the issue itself inside or outside the crimmigration framework. These examples are the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), the REAL ID Act, and asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. They translate into three seemingly disparate legal issues: whether to deport, whether to issue a drivers license, and whether to hear a claim for asylum. These case studies raise the question of how changing the decisionmaker can either exacerbate crimmigration, or inoculate against it. At bottom, they are decisions about who belongs.

Title:
Crimmigrators
Criminal Justice Forum
When/Where:
Thursday, February 24, 2022
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Moot Court Room
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland State University
1801 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44115

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Speaker:

Professor Juliet Stumpf 

Juliet Stumpf is the Robert E. Jones Professor of Advocacy and Ethics at Lewis & Clark Law School. She is a scholar of crimmigration law, the intersection of immigration and criminal law. Her research seeks to illuminate the study of immigration law with interdisciplinary insights. She has published widely in leading journals and books, including a series of crimmigration articles beginning with The Crimmigration Crisis: Immigrants, Crime, and Sovereign Power, 56 AM. U. L. REV. 367 (2006), and she co-authors the casebook Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (8th ed. West 2016). Stumpf is a co-founder of CINETS, the transnational, interdisciplinary network of crimmigration scholars. She serves as Co-Director with Mary Bosworth of the academic network, Border Criminologies at Oxford University, and sits on the Board of Directors of the Innovation Law Lab. In 2016, she received the Leo Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching. Stumpf has taught at NYU School of Law and Leiden University, clerked for Judge Richard A. Paez on the Ninth Circuit, and served as a civil rights attorney in the U.S. Justice Department. She received her J.D. cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A. in English Literature from Oberlin College. 

Credit:
1.0 credit hours pending
By:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law / Cleveland State University

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November 9: Facial Recognition, Surveillance And Privacy

Growing use of facial recognition technology and concerns over inherent bias as well as the risk of mass surveillance generally have prompted calls for stricter regulation and even bans. Several cities and counties have banned public agencies and a handful have prohibited private companies from using facial recognition or passed legislation to demand more transparency on how police use it and other surveillance tools. This talk will explore this push to regulate facial recognition and the concerns that have motivated it.

Title:
Facial Recognition, Surveillance And Privacy
Date/Time:
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
5:00pm - 6:00pm Eastern
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Speaker:
Professor Brian Ray has extensive experience in information governance, cybersecurity, and data privacy. He co-founded and directs the Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection and edits the Center-sponsored SSRN Cybersecurity, Data Privacy and eDiscovery eJournal. Ray also co-founded the Cleveland eDiscovery, Data Security and Privacy Roundtable, an informal group of lawyers, judges and academics that meets monthly to discuss issues surrounding electronic discovery, cybersecurity and data privacy issues.

Credit:
Ohio: 1.0 credit hours pending. You may be able to self-apply for credit in other jurisdictions.
By:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law / Cleveland State University

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November 4: Defense Dialogues: Representing The Accused Before International Criminal Tribunals

Those accused of international crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes are often prosecuted by international criminal tribunals, as the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and others. Although accused of such grave crimes, these defendants enjoy due process rights and benefit from the presumption of innocence. 

Representing such defendants poses unique challenges and requires particular expertise. Kate Gibson will discuss her experience as a criminal defense lawyer before the most prominent international criminal tribunals. She will discuss issues such as procedural particularities, but also specialized defenses such as superior orders, necessity, insanity, mental disease, and duress. Finally, she will focus on differences between representing defendants before international tribunals, such as the International Criminal Court, and domestic tribunals.

Title:

Defense Dialogues: Representing The Accused Before International Criminal Tribunals

Criminal Justice Forum

Date and Time:
Thursday, November 4, 2021
12:00pm - 1:00pm
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Speaker:

Kate Gibson

Kate Gibson has been practicing before international criminal courts and tribunals since 2005, appearing before the ICC, ICTR, IRMCT, ECCC and SCSL on some of the leading cases before these courts. Currently, Kate is the co-counsel of Bosco Ntaganda before the ICC, and also represents Rohingya victims in the Bangladesh/Myanmar situation. Kate also leads the legal team of Paul Rusesabagina, charged with terrorism in Rwanda, and is a member of the Defence team of former President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers.
Previously at the ICC, Kate was the co-counsel of Jean-Pierre Bemba, former Vice-President of the DRC who was acquitted by the ICC Appeals Chamber in 2018. She was also the co-counsel of former President of Liberia Charles Taylor before the SCSL, and the Co-Counsel of former President of the Republika Srpška Radovan Karadžić before the IRMCT. Kate was one of the youngest Lead Counsel to be appointed at the ICTR, representing Minister Justin Mugenzi who was acquitted on appeal. She was also co-counsel to Jean-Baptiste Gatete, former bourgmestre of Murambi commune before the ICTR. Between 2007 and 2008, Kate was the Associate Legal Officer of His Honour Judge Mohammed Shahabuddeen in the Appeals Chamber of the ICTY and ICTR. Kate also represented victims in the Duch case at the ECCC.
In 2018, Kate was appointed as a Legal Consultant to the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Myanmar. She is a Senior Legal Advisor with the Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG) in Washington, DC, working on transitional justice programs in Bangladesh, Libya, and the MENA region. She holds an LL.M in International Law from Cambridge University and lives in Geneva, Switzerland.

Credit:
Ohio: 1.0 credit hours pending.

Other Jurisdictions: You might be able to self-apply for credit.
By:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law / Cleveland State University

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October 7/Cleveland: January 6, Domestic Terrorism and Illiberalism in America

This lecture will trace the origins of the political movement that expressed itself violently at the Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021, the schisms in modern American society resulting in the current domestic terrorism threat, and strategies for preventing future violence from this movement.
Title:
January 6, Domestic Terrorism and Illiberalism in America
When And Where
Thursday, October 7, 2021
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
1801 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115
(At present, we have not heard of an internet option)
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Speaker:
David H. Schanzer is a Professor of the Practice at the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy and Director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security. In these capacities, he teaches courses, conducts research, and writes about national security issues, with a focus on domestic terrorism, counterterrorism, Middle East policy, and the intersection of technology and security.
Credit:
1.0 credit hours
By:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law / Cleveland State University
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April 26: Policing and 'Bluelining'

The speaker will explore the increasingly popular claim that racialized brutality is not a malfunction of policing, but its function. Or, as Paul Butler counsels, “Don’t get it twisted—the criminal justice system ain’t broke. It’s working just the way it’s supposed to.”
This claim contradicts the conventional narrative, which remains largely accepted, that the police exist to vindicate the community’s interest in solving, reducing, and preventing crime. A perusal of the history of organized policing in the United States, however, reveals that it was never mainly about interdicting crime.
From its inception in the late 1800s, organized policing served the social, political, and economic priorities of empowered groups, from supporting Southern agrarian capitalist interests by imposing de facto slavery on emancipated Blacks to bolstering Northern industrialization by oppressing immigrant laborers. Thereafter, police forces grew in response, not to spikes in garden-variety crimes, but to political campaigns and cultural anxieties. And today, it remains contested whether current policing practices—especially street policing—function to alleviate, rather than exacerbate, crime problems.
While policing’s crime-reduction success is questionable, one obvious tremendous success has been its control of race, space, and place. Police draw blue lines around Black neighborhoods—just as banks drew their red lines—designating them as high-risk, pathological spaces. Police use aggressive stop and frisks, intense surveillance, and military-style home raids to keep the people in their spatial and social place. Brutality is the business of policing, reinforced in recruitment, training, and practice. Prof. Gruber will conclude that because racialized brutality is integral to policing, reformers should not primarily focus on incarcerating specific bad cops who draw headlines. The “bad apple” narrative casts racist violence as individual and deviant rather than institutional and structural and undermines the current promising, if glacial, movement toward dismantling policing as we know it. 

Title: 

Policing and 'Bluelining'
Webinar Date And Time
Monday, April 26, 2021
5:00pm - 6:00pm 

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Speaker:
Professor Aya Gruber, University of Colorado Law School
Credit:
1.0 credit hours
By:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law / Cleveland State University
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March 10: How Policing Reinforces Racial Segregation In The 21st Century

Technocratic debates about police reform typically take a narrow view of the multiple, complex roles that policing plays in American society, focusing primarily on police involvement in systems of crime control. Yet, we know that policing plays many roles in society other than fighting crime.

This project focuses on how routine practices of policing maintain racial residential segregation, one of the central mechanisms of American racial inequality. It illustrates six ways that American policing perpetuates residential segregation, drawing from qualitative research in several American cities. Finally, the project engages a fundamental question that emerges in the context of racial justice movements today: Is an anti-segregation approach to policing possible in a society that is structured through race?

Title:
How Policing Reinforces Racial Segregation In The 21st Century

Date/Time:
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm

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Speaker:
Monica Bell is an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School and an Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Her areas of expertise include criminal justice, welfare law, housing, race and the law, qualitative research methods, and law and sociology.
Credit:
1.0 credit hours
By:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law / Cleveland State University
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October 4: Election Integrity in a Time of Political Polarization: Gerrymandering, Redistricting Commissions and the 2020 Census Citizenship Question

Title:
Election Integrity in a Time of Political Polarization: Gerrymandering, Redistricting Commissions and the 2020 Census Citizenship Question
When/Where:
Friday, October 4, 2019 - 8:30am - 5:00pm
Moot Court Room
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland State University
1801 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Speaker:
Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, Esq. and Justice Melody Stewart
Credit:
1.5 free hours
By:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and the ACLU of Ohio.
Cost:
Free and open to members of the Cleveland State University community and the public. Attendees are encouraged to pre-register.
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February 5: Constitutional Lawyering in the Age of Trump

Novel constitutional issues have emerged in the first two years of Donald Trump's presidency, implicating issues as diverse as private paramilitary violence, immigration, and the protection of sensitive voter information in the digital age. In response, creative legal challenges have put before state and federal courts across the country new questions about where constitutional protections begin and end. Joshua Geltzer, Executive Director and Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, will discuss constitutional lawyering in the age of Trump, including the Institute's efforts to use the power of the courts to defend key constitutional rights.

Title:
Constitutional Lawyering in the Age of Trump
When/Where:
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Cleveland State University
1801 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Speaker:
Credit:
1.5 free hours
By:
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law / Cleveland State University
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