Post Tagged with: "Making and Breaking the Law"

Representatives from the Ohio Innocence Project, one of the most successful organizations in the nation for exonerating innocent prisoners, will speak in Walter Rotunda on Feb. 9 from 4 to 6 p.m. for a talk on “The Ohio Innocence Project: From Death Row to Freedom.” Director and Co-founder Mark Godsey […]

The new Transcultural Encounters and Border Crossings Film Series presents Dirt (2003) by American director Nancy Savoca, of Sicilian and Argentinian background, on Saturday, Feb. 7, at 3 p.m. at the Athena Cinema. Admission is free. Dirt is the story of Dolores Del Rosario, who lives with her husband and […]

Students for Law, Justice & Culture member Kaleb Carter wrote an engaging opinion piece on issues raised in Professor Sheila Bedi’s talk on mass incarceration last week. His comments appear in the Ohio University online student publication The New Political. When Sheila Bedi mentioned in her Baker Ballroom speech on […]

Sheila Bedi, clinical associate professor of law at the Northwestern University School of Law, brought a simple message to Ohio University last Thursday evening — end the current prison system and mass incarceration. During her Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Week talk titled “Tearing Down the Walls: The Urgent Human Rights […]

The Center for Law, Justice & Culture is proud to present this year’s cohort of certificate students in Law, Justice & Culture. “We’re thrilled with this year’s cohort of LJC certificate students,” said Dr. Kathleen Sullivan, the CLJC faculty member who teaches LJC 2000: Core Course in Law, Justice & […]

With Dr. Michael Gillespie, Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak is curator of the new Transcultural Encounters and Border Crossings Film Series at the Athena this spring. Marciniak, Professor of English, specializes in transnational studies, and the film series’ theme reflects her scholarly interests. Gillespie is Assistant Professor of Film Theory, with the […]

The Center for Law, Justice & Culture is seeking high-achieving students for summer externship programs with its growing number of partner institutions in the United States and abroad. Current externship placements include Detroit, Cambodia, and Northern Ireland. Externships are similar to internships, but they develop through collaboration and exchange between […]