Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Updated April 5, 2007

THE CRIME WITHIN: A KING HALL PRISON LAW SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, April 07, 2007
9:00AM - 5:00PM
(Breakfast and lunch served)
UC Davis School of Law – Martin Luther King Jr. Hall, Rm 2021

9:00 am - Breakfast, registration

9:30 am - The Crime Within: Welcome Address
Professor Jennifer Chacรณn, UC Davis School of Law

10:00 am - Present Prison Conditions

  • Debbie Reyes, CA Prison Moratorium Project
  • Ed Mead, President of the California Prison Focus and staff member of the Prison Art Project
  • Monica Knox, Federal Public Defender
  • Holly Cooper, Immigration Law Clinic
  • Gail Patrice, Inmate Family Council of CSP Solano
12:00pm- Lunch

12:30pm - Reform, Alternatives, and Post-Release Issues
  • Russ Turner, Candlelight Foundation, Restorative Justice
  • Lisa Rea, The Justice and Reconciliation Project
  • Beth Waitkus, Director of the Insight Garden Program at San Quentin
  • Marci Coglianese, Co-Chair of the Statewide Family Council
  • Matt Powers, PRIDE Industries
2:15 pm - Sex and Gender Oppression
  • Karen Shain, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
  • Andrea Bible, Free Battered Women
  • Chris Daley, Transgender Law Center
  • Maria Ortega, Transgender Gender Variant and Intersex (TGI) Justice Project
  • Lynsay Skiba, Justice Now
4:00 pm - Death Penalty Debate
  • Ellen Eggers, Attorney at the Office of the State Public Defender and Co-Founder of the CA Death Penalty Focus
  • Edward Bronson, Chico State, Professor Political Science and Public Law

Funders and Co-Sponsors
Office of the Dean, King Hall Annual Fund
Advocates for the Rights of Children
Agricultural Law Society
American Constitution Society
Black Law Students Association
Feminist Forum
La Raza Law Students Association

National Lawyers Guild

*This event is FREE and open to the public
Location: UC Davis School of Law -

Martin Luther King Jr. Hall

MCLE Credits

This activity is approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of one hour, which applies to the elimination of bias credit. The University of California, Davis, School of Law (MCLE Provider #1127) certifies that this activity conforms to the standards for approved education activities proscribed by the rules and regulations of the State Bar of California governing minimum continuing legal education.

Registration for the MCLE credit will begin 30 minutes before the start of the lecture.



Directions to King Hall (Law School), UC Davis
From San Francisco:
80 East
Take Exit 71 (UC Davis) towards the Robert & Margrit Mondavi Center
Turn left at the stop sign (Old Davis Road).
Pass the parking structure.
Turn left at the stoplight.
Go past the stop sign, left at the roundabout, and park in front of King Hall.

From Sacramento:
80 West
Take Exit 71 (UC Davis) towards the Robert & Margrit Mondavi Center
Turn right at the stop sign (Old Davis Road).
Pass the parking structure.
Turn left at the stoplight.
Go past the stop sign, left at the roundabout, and park in front of King Hall.

Questions? Email prisonsymposium@gmail.com