Criminal Law, Co-Sponsored by Civil Rights and Criminal Procedure

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Session Type: Section Programs

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: Hilton San Francisco Union Square

Room: Golden Gate 5

Floor: Lobby Level

Prison law is emerging as its own unique domain of scholarship where civil law operates within the criminal law space to focus specifically on the impact incarceration has on an individual beyond their conviction. This panel features a diverse set of works-in-progress that provide important descriptive and analytical accounts that illuminate new developments in prisons and prison law–they also deepen our understanding of how incarceration and the civil justice system function in our system of criminal law.