NASVHILLE, Tenn. Vanderbilt Law School will hold the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture featuring Professor Paul D. Butler on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016 at 12:05 p.m. in the Flynn Auditorium.
Professor Butler’s talk is entitled, “The System is Working the Way It’s Supposed To: The Limits of Criminal Justice Reform.”
Butler is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and teaches in the areas of criminal law and race and the law. He has been awarded the Soros Justice Fellowship. His book, Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice, received the Harry Chapin Media award, and he has another book forthcoming (Fall 2016), titled The Chokehold: Policing Black Men.
Butler’s scholarship has been published in many leading scholarly journals, including the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review (two articles), the Stanford Law Review and the UCLA Law Review (three articles). His work has been profiled on 60 Minutes, Nightline and The ABC, CBS and NBC Evening News, among other places.
Butler also served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, where his specialty was public corruption. He was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Acting Co-Director of the GW/Oxford Human Rights Program at Oxford University, and in 2003, he was elected to the American Law Institute. He lectures regularly for the American Bar Association and the NAACP, as well as at colleges, law schools and community organizations throughout the United States.
About the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance
Founded in 1999, the Alliance bridges the institutions of Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University. Its mission is to enrich learning and advance clinical research by developing and supporting mutually beneficial partnerships between Meharry Medical College, Vanderbilt University and the communities they serve.
