Professor Stephen Bright
October 20, 2016, 3:00pm
From debtors’ prisons to the death penalty, race and poverty influence outcomes in the U.S. criminal courts. The criminal courts are the institution least affected by the Civil Rights Movement. Bright, a Yale Law School professor and president of the Southern Center for Human Rights, will examine how sentences imposed by those courts destroy people and communities; and he will also chart hope for the future.
Check out our convocation display located at Hutchins Library!
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Law and Society in the South by
Call Number: 340.115 W499L 2009
Publication Date: 2009-06-01
Law and Society in the South reconstructs eight pivotal legal disputes heard in North Carolina courts between the 1830s and the 1970s and examines some of the most controversial issues of southern history, including white supremacy and race relations, the teaching of evolution in public schools, and Prohibition. Finally, the book explores the various ways in which law and society interacted in the South during the civil rights era. The voices of racial minorities-some urging integration, others opposing it-grew more audible within the legal system during this time. Law and Society in the South divulges the true nature of the courts: as the unpredictable venues of intense battles between southerners as they endured dramatic changes in their governing values.
In the Name of Justice by
Call Number: 345.7305 I356 2009
Publication Date: 2009-03-16
Is the American criminal justice system dysfunctional? Our criminal codes are so voluminous that they bewilder not only the average citizen, but also the average lawyer. Our courthouses are so busy that they no longer have time for trials. And the American prison population now leads that of the world. Are these trends desirable, satisfactory, or disturbing? In order to answer that question, one must first be clear about the fundamental purpose of the criminal law. Fifty years ago, the distinguished Harvard law professor Henry M. Hart Jr. wrote his classic article entitled The Aims of the Criminal Law. In this volume, America's leading judges and scholars reexamine Professor Hart's thesis and the first principles of American criminal law.
Dead Man Walking by
Call Number: 364.66 P924d
Publication Date: 1994-05-31
In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute--men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing
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