Event 2/28: Webinar on Police Accountability as Transitional Justice in the US
On Monday February 28, 2022, from 12:00 – 1:30 pm EST online via Zoom, the AALS International Human Rights Section will host a webinar on Police Accountability as Transitional Justice in the US.
The webinar will explore the role of police accountability in racial reckoning in the United States and discuss both the potential benefits and limitations of prosecuting police for racial violence and explores whether criminal accountability has lived up to its promise in other transitioning contexts to offer possible lessons for quests for retributive justice in the United States. In particular, the webinar will explore whether criminal accountability has lived up to its promise in other transitioning contexts and what lessons we can learn from those examples that might be applicable in the United States.
MODERATOR:
*Rachel Lopez – Associate Professor of Law, Drexel University, Thomas R. Kline School of Law
PANELISTS:
* Roxanna Altholz – Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic, Berkeley Law School
* Nikki Grant – Policy Director and Co-Founder, Amistad Law Project
* Darryl Heller – Director of the IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center and Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Indiana University South Bend
* Helen Mack Chang – President and Founder, Myrna Mack Foundation
Register now: https://bit.ly/33PFo8f