Rachel Barkow is the author of Prisoner of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration (Harvard/Belknap 2019). She has also written more than 20 articles, and she is recognized as one of the country’s leading experts on criminal law and policy. Professor Barkow teaches courses in criminal law, administrative law, and constitutional law.
Moderator
Erin Fitzgerald is a Faculty Fellow teaching Torts and Criminal Law at New England Law. Prior to teaching at New England Law, she served as an Assistant Attorney General and Deputy Chief of the Homicide Unit in the Criminal Justice Bureau of the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.
Panelists
Wendy Murphy
Panelist Wendy Murphy. JD, is adjunct professor of sexual violence law at New England Law | Boston where she also co-directs the Women's and Children's Advocacy Project under the Center For Law and Social Responsibility. A former prosecutor, Wendy served as the Mary Joe Frug Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at New England Law | Boston, and as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School where her work focused on the status of women as victims in the criminal justice system. Wendy is also an impact litigator whose work in state and federal courts has helped change the law to improve right for abused women and children. She writes and lectures widely on women's and children's constitutional and civil rights, and criminal justice policy.
Clark Neily
Clark Neily is senior vice president for legal studies at the Cato Institute. His areas of interest include constitutional law, judicial engagement, coercive plea bargaining, police accountability, and gun rights. Neily served as co-counsel in District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own a gun. Neily received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, and he is the author of Terms of Engagement: How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution’s Promise of Limited Government.
Mark Osler
Mark Osler is the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas (MN). He also holds the Ruthie Mattox Preaching Chair at First Covenant Church, Minneapolis. Osler's writing on clemency, sentencing and narcotics policy has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic and in law journals at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago, Northwestern, Georgetown, Ohio State, UNC, William and Mary, and Rutgers.
