Recent and Upcoming Symposia

Navigating Prosecutorial Ethics:

A Roundtable Discussion on the ABA’s

Standards for Criminal Litigation

October 15, 2010

Alumni Reception Center

9:00 am – 6:15 pm

Please join us for a unique conference exploring the revisions to the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Standards for Prosecution and Defense Functions. Panelists include:

• Justice Carol Corrigan, California Supreme Court

• Judge John R. Tunheim, United States District Judge, District of Minnesota

• Judge J. Anthony Kline, California Court of Appeal

• Professor Ellen Yaroshefsky, Director of the Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law

• Phil Bronstein, San Francisco Chronicle

Participants will cover Brady disclosure requirements, media relations, and the practical implications and use of the Standards. The event will be recorded and broadcast over the web as part of the ABA’s nationwide series of discussions on the Standards. Hastings is proud to serve as the flagship school for these discussions and to be the home of the ABA’s Reporter on the project, Professor Rory Little. The current Standards are available here.

Democracy and the Courts:

Judicial Selection, Legal Literacy, and the Role of Public Opinion

Spring

2010

Many thanks to all those who attended our Spring 2010 symposium. Special thanks to our keynote speaker, Ms. Linda Greenhouse, as well as to Justice Ming Chin of the California Supreme Court, who provided our afternoon remarks. We are looking forward to publishing an amazing symposium issue this summer, which will include essays from the leading legal scholars and political scientists who spoke at this engaging conference.

For more information on the event, please see the agenda and speaker list.