A national conversation on race and profiling
WHAT: The University of Miami School of Law is hosting a panel discussion on race in conjunction with the book launch of “Dangerous Spaces: Beyond the Racial Profile."
WHO: Author and Professor Donald Jones will be joined on the panel by Professor and Associate Dean Mario Barnes, co-director of the Center on Law, Equality, and Race at the University of California, Irvine School of Law; Professor Kenneth B. Nunn, associate director of the Center and Families and assistant director of the Criminal Justice Center at the University of Florida Levin College of Law; Tom Mesereau, the attorney who successfully defended Michael Jackson in a child molestation indictment in 2005, and Judge William H. “Billy” Murphy, Jr., founding partner Falcon Murphy who represents the family of Freddie Gray, the African-American who died in 2015 during an encounter with Baltimore police.
WHERE: The University of Miami School of Law, 1311 Miller Drive, on the Coral Gables campus.
WHEN: Thursday, January 19, 2017. The discussion will be preceded by a reception at 5:30, with the panel convening at 6:30.
Please R.S.V.P. to the event. For more information, contact Sabrina Segura at ssegura@law.miami.edu or 305-284-6276.
The event is free and open to the public.
CONTACT: Catharine Skipp at 305-773-5801 or cskipp@law.miami.edu
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