Prospects for Death Penalty Abolition in the U.S. and Beyond

Please join us in welcoming Professors Carol and Jordan Steiker for a discussion on "Prospects for Death Penalty Abolition in the U.S. and Beyond." In addition to discussing prospects for abolition, they will discuss their work on the death penalty including Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment (Harvard Univ. Press 2016); Abolishing the American Death Penalty: The Court of Public Opinion Versus the U.S. Supreme Court, 51 Val. U. L. Rev. 579 (2017); The Racial Origins of the Supreme Court's Death Penalty Oversight, 42 Hum. Rts. 14 (2016); The American Death Penalty and the (In)Visibility of Race, 82 U. Chi. L. Rev. 243 (2015).