THE ALBANY SYMPOSIUM ON CRIME AND JUSTICE

Presented by the:

and the

also sponsored by:

The Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, UAlbany

Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty Fund, Inc., Boston MA

Vincent O'Leary, Dean of School of Criminal Justice 1976-1977,

President, UAlbany 1977-1990

The Next Generation of Death Penalty Research:

Priorities, Strategies, and an Agenda

October 6-7, 2006

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Social science and legal scholars will explore contemporary death-penalty laws and practices with an eye toward the role of empirical research evidence in contributing to changing capital-punishment policies. Held 30 years after the Supreme Court's decisions in Gregg v. Georgia and four other cases that marked the dawning of this country's "modern era" of capital punishment, this Symposium comes after a generation of experience with modern death-penalty laws. With the increasing calls for study commissions to examine the administration of capital punishment, this forum will address public policy issues that need systematic scholarly examination. A concluding roundtable discussion involving Symposium participants will seek to develop a research agenda that may serve state and national Death Penalty Study Commissions.

Among the Featured Presenters:

Bill Babbitt, Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights

David C. Baldus , Joseph B. Tye Professor, University of Iowa College of Law

Hugo Adam Bedau , Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University

William J. Bowers , Capital Punishment Research Initiative, University at Albany

John H. Blume, Professor, Cornell Death Penalty Project

Scott Christianson, Author, Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House

Deborah W. Denno , Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law, Fordham Law School

Richard Dieter , Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center

David R. Dow , University Distinguished Professor, University of Houston Law Center

Jeffrey A. Fagan , Professor, Center for Crime, Community & Law, Columbia University

Deborah Fleischaker , Director ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project

Eric M. Freedman , Professor , Hofstra Law School

David W. Garland , Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law, Dept. of Sociology , New York University

Mr. Jonathan Gradess, Executive Director, New York State Defenders Association

Craig W. Haney , Professor, Psychology Department, University of California at Santa Cruz

Robert Johnson , Professor, Department of Justice, Law & Society, American University

Sheri Lynn Johnson, Professor, Cornell Death Penalty Project

Charles Lanier, Capital Punishment Research Initiative, University at Albany

Peter Loge , Senior Vice President, M & R Strategic Services

Jody Madeira, Climenko Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Law School

Glenn Pierce, Professor, Northeastern University

Michael L. Radelet , Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder

Austin Sarat , William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science, Amherst College

Ronald Tabak , Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Margaret Vandiver , Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Memphis

Robert Warden, Exec. Director, Ctr. on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University School of Law

For additional information please contact Dr. Charles S. Lanier, Capital Punishment Research Initiative

( http://www.albany.edu/scj/cpri.htm ) at cpri@albany.edu or 518-442-5231.