Amazing line-ups for "The Future of the President’s Pardon Power: 2021 Clemency Panel Series"

I am so very pleased and proud to be helping to put on a terrific series of online panels to explore in depth the federal clemency powers.  This series is jointly organized by the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, the Collateral Consequences Resource Center, the Federal Sentencing Reporter, and the David F. and Constance B. Girard-diCarlo Center for Ethics, Integrity and Compliance at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. 

Though a whole lot of folks are doing great work putting this series together, the indefatigable Margaret Love merits extra praise for helping to turn a general idea into this great series.  She also deserves special recognition for her work helping to assemble writings on these timely topics in Volume 33, Issue 5 of the Federal Sentencing Reporter (which largely provides the foundation for these panels.)

The series’ three panels will discuss the use of the pardon power by President Donald Trump and how it may influence pardoning in the future. They will consider whether Trump’s irregular pardoning may have been a blessing in disguise by prompting much-needed reforms in law and in practice.

PANEL 1: Donald Trump’s Theatre of Pardoning: What Did We Learn?

September 14, 2021 | 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. EDT | Zoom

Panelists:

• Frank Bowman, Floyd R. Gibson Missouri Endowed Professor of Law, University of Missouri School of Law
• Bernadette Meyler, Carl and Sheila Spaeth Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
• Amy Povah, founder, CAN-DO Justice through Clemency
• Kenneth Vogel, New York Times 

 

PANEL 2: Supplementing the Pardon Power: Second Looks and Second Chances

Tuesday, September 21, 2021 | 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. EDT | Zoom

Panelists:

• Jack Chin, Edward L. Barrett Jr. Chair of Law, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, and Director of Clinical Legal Education, University of California, Davis, Law School
• John Gleeson, attorney and former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• Judge Beverly Martin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• JaneAnne Murray, professor of practice, University of Minnesota Law School 

 

PANEL 3: Managing the Pardon Power: Should the Justice Department Remain the Gatekeeper?

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. EDT | Zoom

Panelists:

• Rachel Barkow, Vice Dean and Charles Seligson Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
• Jeff Crouch, assistant professor of American politics, School of Public Affairs, American University
• Margaret Love, executive director, Collateral Consequences Resource Center, former U.S. Pardon Attorney