Speeches and Talks
- Federal Bar Association Criminal Law Program: forthcoming 6/15/11, Chicago, IL: Pretrial Release talk; co-presenter Magistrate Judge Susan Cox.
- American Constitution Society Panel, Chicago, IL, Jan. 21, 2011: The Newest Frontier of the Federal Sentencing Revolution; co-panelists: AUSA Julie Ruder (Chief, General Crimes) and former FCJC student James Burnham.
- Annual Criminal Defense Seminar, Chicago, IL, Nov. 12, 2010: Attacking the Guidelines With 3553(a)’s Spears (seminar sponsored by the Federal Defender Program and the IACDL for Federal Defender staff attorneys and Criminal Justice Act panel attorneys.)
- National Sentencing Advocacy Workshop, San Francisco, CA, July 2010: Attacking the Guidelines With 3553(a)’s Spears; presented at opening plenary session of national training workshop for criminal defense attorneys, hosted by the Defender Services Training Branch of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO).
- National Sentencing Advocacy Workshop, New Orleans, LA, Mar. 2010: Confronting the Guidelines With 3553(a)’s Spears; presented at opening plenary session of national training workshop for criminal defense attorneys.
- Annual Criminal Justice Act Seminar, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2009: Sentencing advocacy talk.
- Presentation at ACS Board of Advisors and Board of Directors meeting, Chicago, IL, Sept. 18, 2009: Presented talk on two cases then pending before the Supreme Court, Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida
- National Winning Strategies Seminar, Portland, OR, May 2009: Putting the Guidelines in a Half-Nelson: Fighting For and Winning Lower Sentences, presented at opening plenary session of national training workshop for criminal defense attorneys.
- Yale Law School Alumni Association, Chicago, IL, Apr. 2009: Spoke on panel, Will Judicial Discretion Triumph? Reflections on the Supreme Court’s Ongoing Federal Sentencing Revolution (see Question 11, above).
- National Sentencing Advocacy Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Mar. 2009: Putting the Guidelines in a Half-Nelson: Fighting For and Winning Lower Sentences, presented at opening plenary session at annual training workshop for criminal defense attorneys.
- University of Chicago, Taking the Next Step Program, Chicago, IL, Jan. 2009: Panelist for “Pathways to Law” lunchtime discussion with students from The College of the University of Chicago undergraduate classes of 2010 and 2011.
- Annual Criminal Justice Act Seminar, Chicago, IL, Nov. 2008: Moderated Federal Judicial Sentencing Panel of four U.S. District Judges, Judge Robert W. Pratt (S.D. Ia.), Judge David H. Coar (N.D. Ill.), Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer (N.D. Ill.), and Judge Virginia M. Kendall (N.D. Ill.) at conference hosted by the Federal Defender Program and the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Talks and Panels for the Law School and the University
- Faculty Clerkship Panel (forthcoming 5/3/2011)
- Day in the Life presentation regarding the clinics (3/28/2011)
- Law Women’s Caucus Diversity Month Panel, Women in Law: An Honest Discussion on the Experiences of Women Lawyers in Different Practice Areas, Moderator (1/27/2011)
- Clinics in Action Talk with FCJP Class of 2010 students regarding fast-track litigation project (11/8/2010)
- Public Interest Law Society Panel regarding public interest careers (co-panelists were John Knight (ACLU) and Juliet Summers (Class of ‘11)) (10/28/2010)
- Public Interest Careers Faculty Panel (co-panelists were Aziz Huq, Adam Cox, and Emily Satterthwaite) (3/1/10)
- University of Chicago Alumni Club panel, The Changing Court: The Supreme Court’s 2009-2010 Term, Panelist (co-panelists were Todd Henderson and Jeffrey Sarles from Mayer) (11/2009)
- American Constitution Society talk, Is Life Without Parole for Juveniles Who Commit Non-Homicides Constitutional? (10/15/2009)
- Post-Graduate Fellowships Presentation for OCS (4/7/2009)
- Clinics in Action Talk with FCJP Class of 2009 students (3/2/2009)
- American Constitution Society Panel, The Past, Present, and Future of Criminal Sentencing and Federal Judging, Panelist (co-panelist was U.S. District Judge Robert W. Pratt ) (11/2008)
