February 2025
Event Details
DATE
Thursday, February 6, 2025
TIME
4:30 p.m.–6:45 p.m.
LOCATION
Fifth Floor Lounge
New York Law School
185 West Broadway,
New York, NY 10013
Join us for a keynote address by Alexandra Natapoff, Lee S. Kreindler Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, followed by a dialogue with Professor Justin Murray, a Q&A session, and a reception. Professor Natapoff, an award-winning legal scholar and criminal justice expert, is the author of Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal. Her address will explore themes from her highly-regarded 2024 article in the Texas Law Review, “Misdemeanor Declination: A Theory of Internal Separation of Powers.”
The address is part of the Institute on Justice Policy Implementation’s conference “Implementing Misdemeanor Justice: Rethinking Misdemeanor Practice,” which will focus on ways in which discovery and bail reform have failed to take into consideration certain implementation challenges and will seek to identify a coherent framework for criminal court practice in the wake of the huge impact of discovery reform on misdemeanors.