[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TEXAS, CALIF.

[Rick Halperin]

March 17



TEXAS:

The Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic, Cornell Death Penalty Project and 
University of Texas Capital Punishment Center cordially invite you to a 
symposium on "Latinos and the Death Penalty" at the University of Texas School 
of Law on April 10-11, 2015.

The conference brings together experts from a variety of fields (law, 
sociology, criminology, psychology, linguistics, history, and international 
relations) to illuminate a relatively unexplored aspect of the American death 
penalty. The program, described below, is free and open to the public.


LATINOS AND THE DEATH PENALTY PROGRAM, APRIL 10 & 11, University of Texas 
School of Law

Friday, April 10 (All panels in Eidman Courtroom, University of Texas School of 
Law)

Breakfast (8:45 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.) Eidman Courtroom Reception Area

Welcome (9:15-9:30)

Panel One (9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.): Latinos, Discrimination, and the Death 
Penalty: An Historical, Political and Cultural Perspective

Moderator: Jordan Steiker, University of Texas School of Law; Panelists: 
Richard Ainslie, Professor, Center for Mexican American Studies, University of 
Texas; William Carrigan, Professor of History, Rowan University; David Leal, 
University of Texas at Austin Government Department; Maurie Levin, Mexican 
Capital Legal Assistance Attorney; Lorena Estrada-Martinez, Assistant Professor 
of Urban Public Health, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Panel Two (1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.): Litigating Capital Cases with Latino 
Clients: Distinctive Issues in Plea Bargaining, Mitigation Development, Jury 
Selection, and Trial Strategy

Moderator: Elisabeth Semel, University of California,Berkeley, School of Law; 
Panelists: Stephen K. Harper, Florida International University School of Law; 
Dr. Antonio Puente, Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina 
Wilmington & Clinical Neuropsychologist; Susan Berk-Seligson, Professor of 
Spanish Linguistics, Vanderbilt University; Naomi Terr, Texas Defender 
Service/Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program.

Break

Panel Three (3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.): Litigating Capital Cases with Latino 
non-National Clients: Investigation Outside American Borders, Litigating 
International Treaty Claims, and other Challenges/Opportunities

Moderator: Ariel Dulitzky, University of Texas School of Law; Panelists: Sandra 
Babcock, Cornell Law School; Greg Kuykendall, Director, Mexican Capital Legal 
Assistance Program; Alicia Amezcua-Rodriguez, Mexican Capital Legal Assistance 
Attorney /Mitigation specialist; Victor Uribe, Head of the Legal Affairs 
Section, Embassy of Mexico.

Saturday, April 11 (All panels in Eidman Courtroom, University of Texas School 
of Law)

Breakfast (8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.) Eidman Courtroom Reception Area.

Panel Four (Saturday, 9:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.): Latinos and the Death Penalty: 
Emerging Agenda for Future Scholarship and Empirical Study

Moderator: Carol Steiker, Harvard Law School; Panelists: Catherine Grosso, 
Michigan State Law School; Sheri Johnson, Cornell Law School, Sherod Thaxton, 
UCLA School of Law.

(source: UT School of Law)




CALIFORNIA:

death penalty job----see: https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000873467-01

(source: chroniclcevitae.com)