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Laurence Steinberg, a leading authority on psychological development during adolescence, delivered the P. Browning Hoffman Memorial Lecture in Law and Psychiatry at UVA Law.

Jennifer Dysart, one of the nation's leading experts on the factors influencing the accuracy of eyewitness identification, spoke at UVA Law at a recent symposium on "Eyewitness Identification Procedures in the Commonwealth."

The yearlong Prosecution Clinic places third-year law students in 19 commonwealth's attorneys' offices and two federal prosecutors' offices — primarily in the greater Charlottesville region — where they work at least one day a week.

University of Virginia law professor Darryl Brown delivers a chair lecture on "Democracy and Markets in Criminal Adjudication" at UVA Law.

University of Virginia School of Law Professor Risa Goluboff, an expert on the history of civil rights, discusses crime control methods in the 1960s versus today in a lecture titled "The Criminal Procedure Revolution."

The U.S. Supreme Court is unlikely to address some of the questions surrounding the unreliability of eyewitness identifications, but some states are taking steps that reduce the possibility of wrongful criminal convictions, Virginia Law professor Brandon Garrett said.

Florida State University law professor Dan Markel discussed the role of morality in criminal law during the inaugural Virginia Journal of Criminal Law symposium on April 7.

Professor Josh Bowers discussed prosecutorial charging discretion in petty public order cases at a lunch-time talk Thursday. Prosecutors have almost unfettered discretion to decline or pursue criminal charges, Bowers said, but there are several reasons why they are ill-suited to consider the normative merits of potential charges.

Author John Grisham discussed innocence cases at the Law School during a talk to the Innocence and Capital Post-Conviction clinics and related student organizations Jan. 26.

Professor John Norton Moore discusses the laws governing the apprehension of pirates.

Beverly Monroe was sentenced to 20 years for a murder she did not commit — a murder, in fact, that never occurred. Monroe told her story at an event sponsored by the Innocence Project Clinic and the Virginia Innocence Project Student Group.

Using the scientific method to scrutinize forensic investigative techniques would improve the criminal justice system and cut down on wrongful convictions, the recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law said Monday.

Civilian courts can handle the legal challenges of terrorism cases if they undergo minor reforms and refinements, a district court judge told law students and professors at the 22nd Annual Sokol Colloquium on Private International Law Thursday.

Students in a new clinic hope to win exoneration for innocent people convicted in Virginia.

While not accurate enough to use at trial, the results of lie detector tests may still be more reliable than some methods judges and jurors use to evaluate the credibility of a witness, Professor Frederick Schauer said during a lecture Tuesday.

The Duke lacrosse case was a defining legal moment that revealed the weaknesses and strengths of the legal system during several months of intense media scrutiny, said Court TV anchor Jack Ford during a talk in Caplin Pavilion Feb. 12.

It’s a crime in which the victim is also the criminal—so whom do you prosecute? Underage youths who exploit themselves online can be subject to criminal pornography charges, explained child abuse expert Mary Leary at a Law School event Feb. 5, but so far courts are applying the law unevenly.

A year ago this month, James P. Cooney III ’82 was in the middle of a jury trial, defending a hospital in a wrongful death action, when an old friend called to ask him to take on another case. “You will never have a more innocent client,” Cooney recalls being told by Joseph Cheshire.

Professor Brandon Garrett spoke about his groundbreaking research on DNA testing to prove wrongful convictions and the U.S. criminal justice system’s faulty appeals process at a Sept. 24 event at the Law School.

Adam Heyman '03, who walked away from a high paying salary at a large firm to become a public defender in Brooklyn, New York, spoke about what it's like being a public defender.

While law professor Anne Coughlin was studying old police interrogation manuals as part of her preparation to teach Miranda v Arizona in a criminal procedure course, she noticed that all of the manuals recommended the use of victim-blaming stories in order to elicit confessions from suspects.

Best-selling author and Charlottesville-area resident John Grisham spoke to a riveted audience at the Law School Sept. 14 about the troubled story behind his latest—and first nonfiction—book, "The Innocent Man."

Virginia death-row inmate Earl Washington's exoneration due to DNA testing may have changed forever how Virginia handles death penalty cases. Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the Innocence Project, details lessons learned from the case and proposes further reforms to criminal investigations and trials.

In states that have capital punishment, institutional pressures in the justice system skew the outcome in death penalty cases toward conviction and execution, law professor Stephen Smith said in lunch remarks to a Board of Trustees and Alumni Council meeting.

Linda Fairstein '72, best-selling author and former sex crimes prosecutor for the New York county district attorney's office, discusses her work.