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So, when we're talking about things like illegal entry we're actually talking about administrative laws, right? We're not talking about criminal law . And we we really need to make a have an understanding of what it is that we are doing when we say that people who are non-citizens who have a different status based on where they were born
And motivated, I should say actually infuriated me. And that was Criminal Law . You learn a lot in that class.
OK. So, to my right here, we have Mo Meltzer-Cohen. And Mo is a criminal defense attorney and teaches criminal law at Hunter College. And next to Mo, we have Linda Sarsour who is co-founder of MPOWER, and she's also the national advocacy director for the National
Is it all right? I'm not teaching criminal law right now.
Is it all right? I have taught criminal law .
and this has to change. They clearly called for the criminal justice system to ensure that any application of the criminal law is based on the best available scientific evidence. And they even went forever to say that the positive impact of HIV treatment needs to be recognized by criminal justice actors
in particular is totally consuming. Uh when I first went to my criminal law professor's office, like the first week, uh he mentioned that the American legal system was going to be my girlfriend for the next 3 years and if I cheated on
And what they say was very clear and almost definitive. What they say is that the way the criminal law is applied to HIV often is driven by stigma, and this has to change.
It also gets stressful, but does not outweigh my curiosity. I do not appreciate being rejected with no ground I feel missioned to do research to improve our criminal law system and there are answers that criminals can only provide You will not get these answers from your law textbook So I send out requests to the Ministry of Justice to meet prisoners for research. But I often get rejected merely because I am a woman
I'm Amrit Dhir, and it's my pleasure to introduce Emily Baxter, who is the director of We Are All Criminals and a current fellow at the University of Minnesota Law School's Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. So I'm going to speak for just a few minutes.
Is it all right? Mo, as the criminal defense attorney, a professor of criminal law , can you give us more context on what's going on here?
slander that's also a tort uh uh well anything it's a civil law so criminal law would be a crime but if if a civil wrong where someone can sue you for that civil wrong would be a Tor uh and so any time if you're ever sued by
But what-- Breaking the law. Breaking the law. Breaking the criminal law . Breaking the law? Yeah, breaking the law.
Breaking the law? Yeah, breaking the law. I mean, theoretically it's breaking the criminal law , but how do you deal with different legislations across countries? So from a British point of view, but, I mean--
to the point of analysis. And one of the things I always recommend to companies is to understand the criminal law in each country in which you operate, because if there is anything other governments have learned from us, it has been the misuse of criminal law ,
I emerged for my first day of sixth grade very excited to go to school covered in tree sap and pine needles, of these questions, because I don't do criminal law .
looking for the authenticity and the original thing. Now, we could even get into the realms of criminal law , and is anyone really responsible for anything?
convened a group of 20 of the world's leading HIV scientists, including Nobel Prize winner and co-discoverer of HIV. Together, those 20 scientists came to look at the evidence around HIV and the criminal law . And what they say was very clear and almost definitive.
The Muslims in the towns and villages visited by the paramilitary force would have the men separated from the women and children I have a pretty loud voice, but what made you pursue criminal law over the other disciplines when you started out?
For example, some are sentenced to 100 years, especially for child sexual assaults This is practically a life sentence. Do you not think that the sentence in Korea is too light? It is light. Another thing is that the victim is not at the center of our criminal law system. It is the offender Based on presumption of innocence, the accused gets second chances to defend themselves, but this practice is done beyond reasonable level in Korea
I emerged for my first day of sixth grade very excited to go to school covered in tree sap and pine needles, When I was first representing her, she would ask me a lot of questions about criminal law , and I would say I don't know the answers to any
and eight. This was three years ago so they were, well, -you do the math. I'll screw up the math, probably. So I had these two sort of threads of looking at human behavior, in the courtroom and through criminal law and when you become a parent you look really start to look at, think about these questions of criminal behav-- of human behavior in a more personal way
So you know, we do know these people and it's interesting when--. I was talking with a defense lawyer the other day because when you're a prosecutor, it’s--. You know you have all this expertise, but your expertise is only in criminal law . So if you're going to leave the office and not be a career prosecutor, the only place you can go is to criminal defense. A lot of D. D.A.s get into it because you want to wear
top and he writes her a letter back. And he says, "I think I can do more than help." So then he writes about her in an ESPN column and as fate would have it, Hunter Thompson had an annual Super Bowl party every year. And just that weekend the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers was in Aspen holding their annual criminal law seminar. So he says, "Come on over to my place for the Super Bowl. We'll blow somethin' up and we'll have a good time."
voters. Is that a change from your first 1970s? There's differences on what education should be, on the criminal law , labor relations.
Let me concede the question of people who have not committed a crime because I think that that's not really the question at hand. Like if we're saying all deportation is wrong though, that would seem to also include people who were convicted of breaking US criminal law . Is the deportation of those people wrong?
Then I remembered the first criminal I met and thought that there is something I can offer as a specialist For that case though, I could not be involved due to the law system at that time In 2008, the criminal law was revised. Specialists are involved with civil lawsuits and they measure the damages..this is something that a judge cannot do For example, judges cannot estimate damages when a bridge collapse
For example, judges cannot estimate damages when a bridge collapse Civil engineers need to get involved and the Civil Procedure Code was revised to allow participation of civil specialists Since 2008, courts have started to operate commission of enquiry after revision of the criminal law Since then, I have been involved with spouse murder cases almost once in two years as a special advisor
And one of the things I always recommend to companies is to understand the criminal law in each country in which you operate, because if there is anything other governments have learned from us, it has been the misuse of criminal law , not just from us, but obviously from their own histories.
the public safety functions of three strikes you're out laws, the sum of all of those are a very large percentage of California's budget. >>Hon. Jerry Brown: Right. The prison system -- you could say the crime, you've got crime is, you have criminal law . And then you have local police for the cities, you have county sheriffs.
quandary um many many times you'll stand in front of a group and be describing something serious like you know the future of democracy or a criminal law