2008 Symposium: Domestic and International Criminal Responses to Human Rights Violations
2004 Symposium Review On November 5, 2004, the Journal hosted a live symposium on campus entitled “Innocence in Capital Sentencing,” which brought together a talented and distinguished group of professors and practitioners from across the nation to discuss the impacts of wrongful convictions on the capital punishment debate. The participants' varied backgrounds and diverse points of view produced a balanced, interesting, and practical debate. Symposium participants presented several papers for review, each of which was published in a special issue of the Journal in the spring of 2005. These include: Illinois Death Penalty Reform: How it Happened, What it Portends
Further Reflections on the Guillotine
Exonerations in the United States, 1989-2003
Protecting the Innocent: The Massachusetts Governor's Council Report
The Myth of Innocence
The Decline of the Juvenile Death Penalty: Scientific Evidence of Evolving Norms
Seduction of Innocence: The Attractions and Limitations of the Focus on Innocence in Capital Punishment Law and Advocacy
The Death Penalty Debate: A Prosecutor's View
For more detailed abstracts and biographies, see the agenda here. In addition to these presentations, former Illinois Governor George Ryan delivered a keynote address entitled, “From Death to Life,” in which he reflected upon his controversial 2003 decision to commute the sentences of all 167 inmates on Illinois' death row. Thomas P. Sullivan, former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Co-Chair of the Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment, also discussed Illinois' experience with the death penalty, and the reforms proposed by the Commission. The symposium was moderated by Terri L. Mascherin, an alumna of Northwestern University School of Law and the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, who has represented numerous capital defendants at trial and on appeal.
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