NYU Criminal Law and the Modern Court Conference

My friends at the Center for the Adminstration of Criminal Law at NYU are having a very cool gathering this coming Friday.

Information is below and after the jump.

On Friday, April 19, 2013, the Center will host its 5th annual conference. This year's conference, entitled "Criminal Law and the Modern Court," will include panels that will survey novel judicial innovations, explore the future of drug courts and drug policy, and consider where the U.S. Supreme Court is headed on important criminal law issues. The Keynote speaker will be Professor of Practice at Harvard Law, and former U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Massachusetts, Nancy Gertner.  The full program is after the jump. You can register here.

The Center on the Administration of Criminal Law Presents

CRIMINAL LAW & THE MODERN COURT
Friday, April 19, 2013 – Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge
9:00 – 9:30 CLE Registration & Coffee
9:30 – 9:45 Welcoming Remarks

9:45 – 11:15 FIRST PANEL: A SURVEY OF CRIMINAL COURT INNOVATIONS. The panel 
will discuss innovative models and tools being tested in criminal courts around the country, 
including: mental health courts; a new and more effective approach to probation violations 
(the HOPE model); and new “algorithm” tools being applied to sentencing and bail 
decisions. 

Moderator: Nancy Hoppock, Executive Director of the CACL. Panelists: Judge Matthew J. 
D’Emic, Kings Co. Supreme Court; Mark Kleiman, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA 
School of Public Affairs; Prof. Allegra McLeod, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown 
Law School; Anne Milgram, Vice President of Criminal Justice at the Laura and John Arnold 
Foundation; Michael A. Wolff, Dean of St. Louis University School of Law. 
11:15 – 11:30 Break

11:30 – 12:45 SECOND PANEL: THE FUTURE OF DRUG COURTS AND DRUG POLICY.
The panel will look at the progression of drug courts and drug policy in New York City and 
elsewhere. 
Moderator: Prof. Josh Bowers, Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of 
Law. Panelists: Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor; 
Chauncey Parker, Executive Assistant District Attorney of the Manhattan District Attorney’s 
Office; Gabriel Sayegh, New York Director of the Drug Policy Alliance; and Prof. Frank 
Zimring, Professor of Law, Berkeley Law School.
12:45 – 2:00 Lunch Break

2:00 – 2:30 Afternoon Keynote Address by Prof. Nancy Gertner, former U.S. District Court Judge and 
Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School.

2:30 – 3:45 THIRD PANEL: TODAY’S SUPREME COURT AND CRIMINAL LAW. The panel 
will look at where the Supreme Court has recently been and where it is headed on criminal 
law issues.
Moderator: Prof. Rachel E. Barkow, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law. Panelists: 
Miguel A. Estrada, Esq. of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Prof. Jeffrey L. Fisher, Professor of 
Law, Stanford Law School; Erin E. Murphy, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Prof. 
Nancy Morawetz, Professor of Clinical Law, NYU School of Law; and Sonja Ralston, an 
Attorney with the Department of Justice’s Appellate Section.

3:45 Reception