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An introduction to our PROFESSOR AYA GRUBER An introduction to PANELISTS Farmhouse Garden Salad a blend of fresh greens, THE AUTHOR cucumbers, red onions, grape tomatoes, cheddar cheese PROFESSOR BENNETT CAPERS and croutons. Served with your choice of dressing. In Fall 2020, Professor Bennett Capers joined Fordham PROFESSOR BRENDA Law School, where he teaches Evidence, Criminal Law, and SMITH Criminal Procedure, and is also the Director of the Center on Race, Law, and Justice. A former federal prosecutor, his Farmhouse Garden Salad a blend of fresh greens, academic interests include the relationship between race, cucumbers, red onions, grape tomatoes, cheddar cheese gender, technology, and criminal justice, and he is a and croutons. Served with your choice of dressing. prolific writer on these topics. His articles and essays have PROFESSOR KAMI JOSEPHINE ROSS been published or are forthcoming in the California Law CHAVIS Review (twice), Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Josephine Ross is a professor of law at Farmhouse Garden Salad a blend of fresh greens, Howard University School of Law. In her Review, Fordham Law Review, New York University Law cucumbers, red onions, grape tomatoes, cheddar cheese forthcoming book, A Feminist Critique of Review, Michigan Law Review, and UCLA Law Review, among others. In addition to co-editing the forthcoming and croutons. Served with your choice of dressing. Police Stops published by Cambridge Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on University Press, Ross takes on stops, Race and Law (Cambridge University Press) and Feminist PROFESSOR ALEX Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions (Cambridge VITALE frisks and the consent doctrine. University Press), he also has a forthcoming book about Harnessing feminist arguments against prosecutors, The Prosecutor’s Turn (Metropolitan Books). Alex S. Vitale is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator traditional rape law where consent was His commentary and op-eds have appeared in the New of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn found except when aggressors used force York Times, Washington Post, and other journals. He has College and a Visiting Professor at London Southbank and violence, Ross exposes the same thrice been voted Teacher of the Year, is an elected University. He has spent the last 30 years writing about forces at work in the current law on member of the American Law Institute, a Director of policing and consults both police departments and consent stops, consent searches and Research for the Uniform Laws Commission, and has human rights organizations internationally. Prof. consensual interrogations. The book served as Chair of the AALS Criminal Justice Section and indicts the original Supreme Court Chair of the AALS Law and Humanities Section. Governor Vitale is the author of City of Disorder: How the Quality decision in Terry v. Ohio that allows Cuomo has twice appointed him to serve on judicial of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics and police to stop and frisk on less than screening committees. He has also served for several years The End of Policing. His academic writings on policing probable cause, shows how consent as a Commissioner on the NYC Civilian Complaint Review have appeared in Policing and Society, Police Practice doctrine intersects with Terry, and calls for the abolition of stop and frisk policing. Board. and Research, Mobilization, and Contemporary Sociology. He is also a frequent essayist, whose writings Professor Ross teaches Criminal PROFESSOR have been published in The NY Times, Washington Post, Procedure, Evidence and occasionally a FRANK RUDY The Guardian, The Nation, Vice News, Fortune, and USA seminar on the television show The Wire. She supervised students in a Criminal COOPER Today. He has also appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Justice Clinic for a decade and recently NPR, PBS, Democracy Now, and The Daily Show with created and teaches a Reentry Clinic. She Professor Frank Rudy Cooper is William S. Boyd has taught courses at Boston College Law Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Race, Trevor Noah. School, Michigan State University and University of the Western Cape in South Gender, and Policing. He graduated from Amherst Africa. One of her articles examines the College and Duke University Law School, where he problem of police sexual assault. Link to was on the Duke Journal of Gender, Law & Policy and What the #MeToo Campaign Teaches the Moot Court Board and served as a Research About Stop and Frisk, 54 Idaho Law Assistant to Professor Jerome McCristal Culp. He Review 543 (2018) at SSRN: clerked for the Honorable Solomon Oliver, Jr. (N.D. Ohio) and practiced in Boston. He previously taught https://ssrn.com/abstract=3225923. at Villanova University and Suffolk University. His national service includes co-founding the SALT- LatCrit Junior Faculty Development Workshop and the John Mercer Langston Writing Workshop.

Overview over the 02 12:30 PM - 12:35 PM A look into the - A Word from Dean TOPICS 16 Danielle Holley-Walker THE BOOK - PANEL 1: 12:35 PM - 12:40 PM A Feminist Critique of Police Stops examines '21 Excerpt from the book by the parallels between stop-and-frisk policing FEMINIST VOICES author and professor and sexual harassment. An expert whose ON POLICING OF Josephine Ross writing, teaching and community outreach MEN, WOMEN, & centers on the Constitution's limits on police YOUTH. 12:40 PM  power, Howard Law Professor Josephine Ross, Introduction to Panel 1 by argues that our constitutional rights are a With Bennett Capers, STAAND student mirage. In reality, we can't say no when police Brenda Smith, & Aya seek to question or search us. Building on Gruber 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM feminist principles, Ross demonstrates why the Panel Discussions Supreme Court got it wrong when it allowed PANEL 2: police to stop, search and sometimes strip- 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM search people and call it consent. Using a wide IS IT TIME TO Questions range of sources - including her law students' ABOLISH STOP & experiences with police, news stories about Eric FRISK? 1:35 PM - 1:40 PM Garner and Sandra Bland, social science and the Interlude work of James Baldwin - Ross sheds new light With Frank Rudy Cooper, on policing. This book should be read by Alex Vitale, & Kami Chavis 1:40 PM - 1:45 PM everyone interested in how Court-approved Introduction to Panel 2. police stops sap everyone's constitutional rights and how this form of policing can be eliminated. 1:45 PM - 2:30 PM Panelist Discussion with Want a copy? selected student questions USE THE CODE: ROSS2020 TO 2:30 PM - 2:40 PM RECEIVE 20% OFF YOUR ORDER Closing remarks ON THE CAMBRIDGE PRESS 2:40 PM - 2:55 PM WEBSITE Student Open Engagement Session