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UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

JAMES E. ROGERS COLLEGE OF LAW


FEBRUARY 1, 2023

UPCOMING EVENTS

February 14

UA Giving Day

February 17

SBA Phoenix Connect Networking Event

February 27

McCormick Lecture with Paul Butler

Greetings,


This week, we are pleased to share the details for this year’s J. Byron McCormick Lecture.


The J. Byron McCormick Society for Law and Public Affairs was formed to honor the memory of J. Byron McCormick, who served Arizona with distinction as president of the University of Arizona, as dean of the College of Law, and as an advisor to the Arizona Board of Regents. 


For over 40 years, the McCormick Society has sponsored an annual public lecture at the College of Law to foster dialogue about the critical issues of our time. This year will be no exception, as we welcome Professor Paul Butler for a timely discussion on race and criminal justice.

Until the footnotes,


Marc

FEATURE

Author and Professor Paul Butler to Deliver McCormick Lecture

The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and the J. Byron McCormick Society are pleased to invite you to an evening with Paul Butler, professor of law at Georgetown University and renowned scholar on issues of race and criminal justice.


Prison Abolition, and a Mule


This presentation will explore the movement to abolish prison, focusing on the consequences for racial justice and public safety. 


WHEN

Monday, Feb. 27, 2023

5:30-6:30 p.m. 


WHERE

James E. Rogers College of Law

Room 164


Please note: this lecture will be in-person only; it will not recorded or livestreamed. Priority seating will go to members of the McCormick Society.

About Paul Butler


Paul Butler is the Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and a legal analyst on MSNBC. He is a contributing opinion writer for The Washington Post. During the 2017-18 academic year he was the Bennett Boskey Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.  

      

Professor Butler is one of the nation’s most frequently consulted scholars on issues of race and criminal justice. His work has been profiled on 60 Minutes, Nightline, and The ABC, CBS and NBC Evening News. He lectures regularly at colleges, law schools and community organizations throughout the United States and around the world. He served on the District of Columbia Code Revision Commission as an appointee of the D.C. City Council.  

      

Professor Butler’s scholarship has been published in many leading scholarly journals, including the Georgetown Law Journal, Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review and the UCLA Law Review. At Georgetown he received the 2021-22 Frank F. Flagel Teaching Award, the law school’s top teaching honor.

 

Professor Butler was elected to the American Law Institute in 2003. His book, “Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice” received the Harry Chapin Media award and his book “Chokehold: Policing Black Men” was published in July 2017. The Washington Post named it one of the 50 best non-fiction books of 2017. “Chokehold” was also named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus Reviews and the Atlanta Journal Constitution and The New York Times described it as the best book on criminal justice reform since “The New Jim Crow.” It was a finalist for the 2018 NAACP Image Award for best non-fiction.


Professor Butler served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, where his specialty was public corruption. His prosecutions included a United States Senator, three FBI agents, and several other law enforcement officials.  


Professor Butler is a graduate of Yale University, cum laude, and Harvard Law School, cum laude.


There is no cost to attend this event and it is open to the public.

Register to Attend

AROUND THE COLLEGE

Spread #GivingDay Love this Valentine's Day

This Valentine’s Day, University of Arizona Law is asking the LawCat community to show your Wildcat love by contributing during Giving Day, a 24-hour fundraising effort in support of students and the university.  


Your generosity ensures that University of Arizona Law is able to train the next generation of leaders and lawyers and allows us to provide a modern, nimble legal education of the highest quality. A legal education is a life-changing experience, and with your support, we can give our students the resources they need to transform their passions and skills into fulfilling careers. 


See our Giving Day page to learn more about Giving Day and the programs that support our students and initiatives. For more about university-wide Giving Day initiatives, watch this video message from University of Arizona President Dr. Robert C. Robbins:

Congratulations to 2023 Alumni of the Year Winner Gabriel Galanda

Every year, the University of Arizona salutes a group of alumni for their achievements, public service, advocacy for education, volunteerism and service to students, the colleges and the university. The Alumni of the Year will be honored in a private ceremony on Friday, February 3.


This year’s Alumni of the Year honoree from the James E. Rogers College of Law is Gabriel Galanda (’00)! The managing lawyer of the Galanda Broadman firm, Gabe is one of the country’s leading Indigenous rights attorneys. He also founded and operates Huy, a nonprofit dedicated to enhancing religious, cultural and rehabilitative opportunities for Native American prisoners. 


To learn more about Gabe’s scholarship on Indigenous rights, read his recent essay, “In the Spirit of Vine Deloria, Jr.: Indigenous Kinship Renewal and Relational Sovereignty.”


Congratulations to Gabe!

Lecture This Friday to Feature International Business Law Experts


Our Spring 2023 International Business Law Lecture will be this Friday, February 3 from 12:15 to 1:15p.m. (Tucson) with Professor Nicolas Petit, who is the Joint Chair in Competition Law at the Department of Law and at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, and Professor Thibault Schrepel who is an Associate Professor of Law at VU Amsterdam University. 


Professors Petit and Schrepel will present their new project, “Evolutionary Antitrust Law and Policy in the Digital Economy.” The paper is a work in progress and will be circulated prior to the workshop.  

 

Both Professors will appear in-person in the University of Arizona Law faculty lounge (RM 237). 


Join Zoom Meeting

https://arizona.zoom.us/j/82442021569

 

Password: SPEAKER

Celebrate i4J Fifth Anniversary at Feb. 10 Event

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CNBC, featuring Robert Glennon


Should it be an ethical obligation to report other lawyers?

ABA Journal, featuring Keith Swisher

Do You Have News?


Your success is the college’s success and we want to celebrate with you! If you have landed a new job, received an award or recognition, stepped into a leadership role or have good news in general, let us know.

Share Your News Here

Twitter, @arizonaalumni

Our major lectures provide intellectual lifeblood to our community. They advance our core mission – the free exchange of ideas and discourse on the critical issues of our times.  


Race, policing, punishment and criminal justice – the subjects of critical scholarship by our McCormick speaker Professor Paul Butler – are back in the headlines with graphic images from Memphis. Yet again we are asked to confront deep issues of systematic and structural bias and violence.  


Professor Butler’s research offers an opportunity to further consider how we can and should do more. I hope you will join the McCormick Society and the Arizona Law Community for this compelling conversation. 

Warmly,

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