What role do lawyers play in perpetuating structural racism and injustice within America’s system of mass incarceration? What role can lawyers play in transforming the criminal punishment system? Alec Karakatsanis, founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps, will speak about his book, Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System, with commentary by Professor Michael Meltsner.   

Speaker
ALEC KARAKATSANIS
Founder and Executive Director, Civil Rights Corps; Author, Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System.   

Discussant       
MICHAEL MELTSNER
Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law

Moderator
DANAE ROSARIO ’22