Speaker Series
Criminal Justice Forums:
A Series on Contemporary Issues in Criminal Law
2008-2009
The 2008 Friedman & Gilbert Lecture
Criminal Justice Forum I
Jonathan Turley
The J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law
Director of the Environmental Law Advocacy Center
Executive Director, Project for Older Prisoners
George Washington University Law School
BA, University of Chicago
JD, Northwestern University School of Law
The Body Count Culture: Evaluating the Bush Administration's Record of Terrorism Prosecution
Professor Turley's authority on matters of constitutional law, criminal defense law, military law,
environmental law and tort law has earned him a national reputation, both as a scholar and as a litigator: He is the author of three books and over 30 articles in leading academic journals-articles examining issues as diverse as inequality in the District of Columbia's partial Congressional representation, ownership and control of Presidential papers, expansion of the U.S. Supreme Court, the erosion of executive privilege in the
Clinton administration, and the retention of sovereign immunity in military governance. He is frequently called upon to write for and speak to media on issues of constitutionality, including the Clinton impeachment trial, the 2000 Presidential election and Supreme Court nominees. Equally impressive are his courtroom credentials: In 1994, he sued the U.S. Air Force and the EPA on behalf of workers in Area 51, the U.S. Air Force's secret Nevada airbase and testing ground, alleging deadly exposure to illegal and toxic chemicals; in 1997, he challenged Black Bag Operations authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. He has also served as counsel in a variety of national security and terrorism cases, including the defense of Dr. Ali Al-Timimi, convicted in Virginia in 2005 of violent speech against the United States, and Dr. Sami Al-Arian, accused of being the American leader of a terrorist organization while he was a university professor in Florida. His experience in defending dissidents and accused terrorists will doubtless inform his Cleveland-Marshall lecture.
2006-07
CJF I: The 2006 Friedman and Gilbert Lecture, The Andrea Yates Case: Insanity of Trial, September 19, 2006
Philip J. Resnick, Professor of Psychiatry, Director, Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Case Western University School of Medicine
CJF II: Special Sentencing Regimes for indigenous People and Persons of Colour in Canada, November 14, 2006
Gail Antoinette (Toni) Williams, Professor of Law Osgoode Hall Law School
CJF III: Repellent Crimes and Rational Deliberation: Emotion and the Death Penalty, March 22, 2007
Susan A. Bandes, Distinguished Research Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law
2005-06
CJF I: The Friedman and Gilbert Lecture, Conceptualizing Booker: A Two-headed Monster or a Masterful Piece of Judicial Craftsmanship?, October 6, 2005
Douglas A. Berman, Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
CJF II: Punishing Rape, October 26, 2005
Michelle J. Anderson, Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law
CJF III: Is Torture Ever Legally or Morally Justified?, February 8, 2006
Oren Gross, The Irving Younger Professor of Law, The University of Minnesota Law School
Marcy Strauss, Professor of Law, Loyola University Law School, Los Angeles
CJF IV: Blackstone and Bayonets: Military Tribunals in the Reconstruction South, 1865-1870, April 11, 2006
Thomas D. Morris, Professor Emeritus, Portland State University
2004-2005
Co-sponsored by the Hubert A. and Gladys C. Estabrook Charitable Trust and Porter, Wright, Morris, and Arthur LLP
CJF I: José Padilla and Martha Stewart: Who Should be Charged with Criminal Conduct?
September 8, 2004
Ellen S. Podgor, Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
CJF II: The Presumption of Reason: A Noble Fiction or an Ignoble Lie?
October 26, 2004
Ngaire Naffine, Cleveland-Marshall Joseph C. Hostetler, Baker & Hostetler Visiting Professor of Law; Professor of Law, The University of Adelaide Law School
CJF III: The Legacy of Lynching: Why African Americans Distrust the Rule of Law
March 9, 2005
Emma Coleman Jordan, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Co-sponsored by the CSU office of Minority Affairs and Community Relations
CJF IV: Cross-Purposes on the Court: Proportionality and the Eighth Amendment
April 18, 2005
Thomas Morawetz, Tapping Reeve Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Connecticut School of Law
2003-2004
Co-sponsored by the Hubert A. and Gladys C. Estabrook Charitable Trust and Porter, Wright, Morris, and Arthur LLP
CJF I: Rape, Sexual Assault and the Twilight Zone: When Sex is Unwanted but not Illegal
September 16, 2003
Stephen J. Shulhofer, Robert McKay Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
CJF II: Terry v. Ohio: A Forty-Year Retrospective
October 30, 2003
Honorable Louis Stokes, Senior Counsel, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P., Former Member, United States House of Representatives
Honorable Timothy J. McGinty, Judge, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas
Reuben M. Payne, Former Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
Beverly J. Blair, Professor, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Lewis R. Katz, Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
CJF III: Confessions of a Death Penalty Agnostic
February 4, 2004
Scott Turow, Novelist, Partner, Sonnenschein, Natch & Rosenthal LLP
CJF IV: False Confessions: Lessons of the Central Park Jogger Case
April 29, 2004
Sharon L. Davies, John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Designated Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University
2002-2003
Co-sponsored by the Hubert A. and Gladys C. Estabrook Charitable Trust and Porter, Wright, Morris, and Arthur LLP
CJF I: Racial and Ethnic Profiling Reconsidered in the Post 9/11 World
September 24, 2002
David Harris, Balk Professor of Law and Values, University of Toledo College of Law
Co-sponsored by the CSU Office of Minority Affairs and Community Relations.
CJF II: Ohio’s Drug Treatment Constitutional Amendment: Is This the Way to Address the Drug Problem?
October 15, 2002
A roundtable discussion co-sponsored and produced by WCPN/WVIZ
CJF III: Combating Corporate Crime: Are Local Prosecutors Taking on a New Adversary?
February 26, 2003
Michael L. Benson, Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati Division of Criminal Justice
Co-sponsored by the CSU Sociology Department
CJF IV: Mothers who Kill: Thoughts about Patterns, Prevention and Punishment
April 2, 2003
Michelle Oberman, Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law
2001-2002
Co-sponsored by the Hubert A. and Gladys C. Estabrook Charitable Trust and Porter, Wright, Morris, and Arthur LLP
CJF I: Consciousness and Culpability
February 4, 2002
Deborah W. Denno, Professor of Law, Fordham University
CJF II: Illusions of Memory
February 28, 2002
Dr. Elizabeth F. Loftus, Professor of Psychology and Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Washington, Seattle
CJF III: Not Part of My Sentence: Human Rights Violations of Women Prisoners
March 26, 2002
Ellen Barry, Founding Director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
CJF IV: Making Reproduction a Crime
April 29, 2002
Dorothy E. Roberts, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Co-sponsored by the CSU Office of Minority Affairs and Community Relations
2000-2001
Co-sponsored by the Hubert A. and Gladys C. Estabrook Charitable Trust and Porter, Wright, Morris, and Arthur LLP
CJF I: Contemporary Forms of Individual Criminal Responsibility in International Law
September 14, 2000
Ilias Bantekas, Cleveland-Marshall Visiting Professor; Senior Lecturer and Director, International Law Centre at the University of Westminster Law School in London, England
CJF II: Watch What You Wish For (Especially in Criminal Court:) The Effect for Mandatory Arrest and No-Drop Prosecution Policies on Criminal Homicides
November 1, 2000
Holly Maguigan, Professor of Clinical Law, New York University
CJF III: Race, ‘Get Tough’ Politics, and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court
February 22, 2001
Barry C. Feld, Centennial Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
CJF IV: Toward More Reliable Jury Verdicts? Developments in Law, Technology, and Media Impact Since the Trials of Dr. Sam Sheppard
April 20-21, 2001
Honorable James Robertson, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
James Neff, prior holder of the Kipplinger Chair, The Ohio State University School of Journalism and Communications
Clara Tuma, Reporter for Court TV
John A. Walton, Professor of Law, Northern Illinois University College of Law
Dean Boland, Forest City Land Group; counsel for the State in Sheppard v. Ohio
Dr. Shari Seidman Diamond, Professor of Law and Psychology, Northwestern University
Dr. Michael J. Saks, Professor of Law, Arizona State University College of Law
Laurie L. Levenson, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
Margaret Raymond, Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law
Lawrence M. Solan, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
James R. Wooley, Baker & Hostetler; member of the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence
Dr. Michael M. Baden, Director of Medical Legal Investigation Unit, New York State Police
Paul C. Giannelli, Professor of Law, Case Western University Law School
Terry H. Gilbert, lead plaintiff’s attorney on Sheppard v. Ohio, Friedman & Gilbert
1999-2000
CJF I: Trying a High-Profile Death Penalty Case: Lessons from the Oklahoma City Bombing Trial of Terry Nichols
October 13, 1999
Edward Killiam, Founder, Alliance Services of Boulder, Colorado
Geoffrey S. Mearns, Partner, Thompson Hine & Flory
Adam Thurschwell, Assistant Professor, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
CJF II: Circle the Wagon Trains: Criminal Defense in The New Millennium
October 29, 1999
Phyllis L. Crocker, Associate Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Deborah Koricke, Vice President, Center for Effective Living Inc.
Gerald A. Messerman, Attorney, Messerman & Messerman
Marvin Miller, Attorney, Virginia
William Rittenberg, Attorney, New Orleans
Caroline M. Roberto, President-Elect, Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Co-sponsored by the Cuyahoga County Bar Association, The Cuyahoga Criminal Defense Lawyers Association; Organized by Gordon S. Friedman, Chair Cuyahoga County Bar Association’s Criminal Law Committee and partner, Friedman & Gilbert
CJF III: Racial Profiling and Class Injustice: How Our Criminal Justice System Depends Upon Inequality
February 17, 2000
David Cole, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Co-sponsored by the CSU Office of Minority Affairs and Community Relations
CJF IV: Gender and Victims’ Rights
April 26, 2000
Lynne N. Henderson, Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington