Previous Speaker Series Events

  1. The Fear of Too Much Justice, with Stephen Bright, Yale Law School. Presented by The Athenaeum, the Capital Punishment Center, and the Budd Innocence Center
  2. Jessica Brand, Founder and Co-Director of the Wren Collective, an organization which advises and consults on criminal justice issues, and Trudy Strassburger, the Deputy District Attorney of Travis County, will discuss the concept of “Progressive Prosecution” as well specific policies and practices of the Travis County District Attorney's Office.
  3. Lara Bazelon, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Juvenile Justice Clinic and the Racial Justice Clinic at University of San Francisco School of Law, discussed life after exoneration and the idea of restorative justice.
  4. The Budd Innocence Center hosted Tucker Carrington, Director of the George C. Cochran Innocence Project at the University of Mississippi School of Law and Radley Balko of The Washington Post, co-authors of "The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South."