Join us for a lecture at the Law School featuring Bryan Stevenson.
Bryan Stevenson, the 2019 Day Pitney Visiting Scholar, is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults. Mr. Stevenson and his staff have won reversals, relief or release from prison for over 135 wrongly condemned prisoners on death row and won relief for hundreds of others wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced. Mr. Stevenson has argued and won multiple cases at the U.S. Supreme Court, including a 2019 ruling protecting condemned prisoners who suffer from dementia and a landmark 2012 ruling that banned mandatory life-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger. Mr. Stevenson has initiated major new anti-poverty and anti-discrimination efforts that challenge inequality in America. He led the creation of two highly acclaimed cultural sites which opened in 2018, The Legacy Museum and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. The new national landmark institutions chronicle the legacy of slavery, lynching and racial segregation and the connection to mass incarceration and contemporary issues of racial bias. Mr. Stevenson’s work has won him numerous awards including 40 honorary doctorates, the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Prize and the ABA Medal, the American Bar Association’s highest honor. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government and the author of the award winning New York Times bestseller, Just Mercy.
Admission is free to those who RSVP by Wednesday, November 6, 2019. Seating is limited. Please send any questions to the Connecticut Law Review at connlrev@uconn.edu or call 860-570-5331.
After Mr. Stevenson speaks at the Law School, he will travel to the UConn Storrs campus where President Thomas C. Katsouleas and The Honorable Christopher J. Dodd will award Mr. Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative the 2019 Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights. For more information on the Dodd Prize, please click here.
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