UT Law: Imprisoned by the Past ; The Enduring Role of Race in the American Death Penalty

Capital Punishment Center Presents:

Imprisoned by the Past ;
The Enduring Role of Race in the American Death Penalty

Eidman Courtroom, UT Law School
April 16, 2009 10:15 to 5:15 p.m.

Symposium Program

10:15 Welcoming Remarks
10:30–12:00
Panel I - Race Discrimination in Capital Jury Selection

Melynda Price, Visiting Scholar, Capital Punishment Center, University of Texas School of Law; Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky College of Law
Joseph E. Lambert, Chief Justice (ret.), Supreme Court of Kentucky
Steve McGonigle, Reporter, The Dallas Morning News
Elisabeth Semel, Clinical Professor and Director, Death Penalty Clinic, UC Berkeley School of Law
Moderator: Jim Marcus, Adjunct Professor, Capital Punishment Clinic, University of Texas School of Law

12:15–1:45
Keynote Lunch - "Confronting Injustice: Race, Poverty and Psychic Harm", Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, and Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

Charles I. Francis Auditorium, Room 2.114, UT School of Law (pizza and drinks provided)

Keynote Sponsored by American Constitution Society

2:00–3:30 Panel II - Reflections on Race, Culture and the Death Penalty
Jordan Steiker, Professor and Co-Director, Capital Punishment Center, University of Texas School of Law
George Kendall, Senior Counsel, Holland & Knight
Melynda Price, Visiting Scholar, Capital Punishment Center, University of Texas School of Law; Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky College of Law
Moderator: Robert C. Owen, Clinical Professor and Co-Director, Capital Punishment Center, University of Texas School of Law

3:45–5:15 Panel III - Innovative Litigation of Race Issues in Capital Trials
Robert McGlasson, McGlasson & Associates, P.C.; Attorney for Brian Nichols
Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director, Equal justice Initiative of Alabama
Christina Swarns, Director, Criminal Justice Project, NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund.
Moderator: Maurie Levin, Adjunct Professor, Capital Punishment Clinic, University of Texas School of Law

Presented by: Capital Punishment Center
Co-sponsored by: William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law
For more information please contact Rob Owen at rowen@law.utexasedu, 512.232.9391