Faculty Highlights – December 2018
In September 2018, Professor Michèle Alexandre was an invited speaker at the 10th Annual Anniversary of the Vulnerability and Human Condition Initiative, at Leeds University School of Law, U.K. Professor Alexandre’s first book, Sexploitation: Sexual Profiling and the Illusion of Gender, implements the vulnerability framework. Below is a link to twitter feeds and pics of the invited speakers: https://twitter.com/MarthaLAFineman/status/1043836818104479744”
In December 2018, Professor Michèle Alexandre will be an invited visiting scholar at the University of Leeds School of Law, U.K. Professor Alexandre is also a Global Affiliated Faculty at Emory University’s Vulnerability and Human Condition.
Director of the MacArthur Justice Center and Professor of Law Cliff Johnson spoke to MPB on issues with record keeping in jails.
Faculty Highlights – November 2018
Assistant Professor of Law and MacArthur Justice Center Director Cliff Johnson spoke to the Mississippi Judicial Conference’s Justice Court Conference this month on the proper handling of criminal cases involving indigent defendants. He spoke to the Panola County Bar Association on poverty and criminal justice in Mississippi. Johnson also spoke to the Magnolia Bar Association CLE on “A Local and National Perspective on the State of Criminal Justice in America. In December, he is scheduled to speak at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. as part of a panel discussing the movie Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2, a French documentary regarding a death penalty case handled by Johnson.
Faculty Highlights – October 2018
Senior Associate Dean Ben Cooper spoke at the 2018 Appellate Advocacy Seminar sponsored by the Bar Association of the 5th Federal Circuit, Ole Miss Law School and Mississippi College School of Law.
Associate Professor of Law Will Berry published an article in the Law Review at the Washington University School of Law.
Professor of Law Mercer Bullard was quoted in an article for Westlaw.
Professor of Law and Criminal Appeals Clinic Director Phillip Broadhead gave a presentation to the William C. Keady American Inn of the Court last week on “The Value of Mentoring Law Students.”
Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the MacArthur Justice Center Cliff Johnson spoke at Harvard as part of the annual meeting of Harvard Law School’s Mississippi Delta Project. The center is working with Harvard on this statewide expungement project intended to make it easier for indigent Mississippians to have past arrests and convictions removed from their record.
The Summer/Early Fall 2018 edition of the Mississippi Bar magazine, The Mississippi Lawyer, published the article, “Effective Utilization of Technology in the Practice of Law” written by Professor of Law and Criminal Appeals Clinic Director Phillip Broadhead.