Defending Due Process: Why Fairness Matters in a Polarized World
Defending Due Process is a crucial exploration of the decline of a key social and legal value: commitment to due process, and why defending it is more important than ever.
The U.S. Constitution commands, twice, that no one shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Yet in overheated debates, people argue that others do not deserve any presumption of innocence. In courtrooms and colleges, police stations and jails, restaurants and libraries, print and online, the democratic value of due process is up for grabs. In this new book out from Polity Books on January 28, our faculty director Brandon Garrett explores the fault lines that are putting due process under so much pressure. Learn more at Polity Books, and buy the book at Wiley.
Schedule of Events
- January 31: PennCarey Law School, University of Pennsylvania: Keynote Address at the JCL Symposium: AI, Data, and the Constitution: Reimagining Criminal Law for the Digital Age
- February 24: Duke University School of Law in Conversation with Professor James Coleman
- February 26: Cato Institute in Conversation with Vikrant Reddy (In person in Washington, DC and live webcast!)
- March 3: University of North Carolina School of Law in conversation with Profs. Eisha Jain and William Marshall (12pm in Room 5052)
- March 4: University of Virginia School of Law
- April 8: John Jay College of Criminal Justice (details to follow)
- April 28: Porter Store Books, Cambridge, MA in conversation with Matt Segal, co-director of the ACLU’s State Supreme Court Initiative
Check back for more upcoming events to be added
Defending Due Process in the news and across the web
- "Protect your constitutional rights: Don’t fall for the Laken Riley Act’s security theater" in The Hill, co-authored with Duke Law Professors Kate Evans and Elana Fogel
- Guest Blogging for The Volokh Conspiracy at Reason Magazine