Call for Papers Deadline: Criminal Justice, Economic Meltdown – Atlanta, GA

The Georgia State University Law Review will present The Criminal Justice System in a Time of Economic Meltdown: Crisis or Opportunity for Reform? in early 2012. Abstracts are due by May 13, 2011.

The Georgia State University College of Law will hold a one-day symposium in the early spring of 2012 to examine the ways that our criminal justice system might respond to our ongoing national economic crisis. In an economy that has forced all sectors of government to take on new cost-cutting measures, the time may be ripe for implementing criminal justice reform. Possible panel discussions may include the intersection between our fiscal crisis and indigent defense, ineffective assistance of counsel, prison populations, overcriminalization, the war on drugs, and the death penalty. Within the discussion of these topics, we will address the impact of these issues specifically in Georgia, while also adopting a comparative perspective by exploring budget-driven approaches other states and countries have taken in response to these issues.

The College of Law welcomes papers, essays, and symposium-length articles on these topics and related subjects. The format is flexible in order to encourage academics, advocates, attorneys, and practitioners alike to participate. Selected conference papers will be published in a future issue of the Georgia State University Law Review.

Those interested in participating should e-mail a one-page abstract summarizing their proposed topic to gsulawreviewsymposium12@gmail.com by May 13, 2011. Participants will be notified by mid-June if their papers have been tentatively accepted for publication. For more information, please contact Symposium Editors Mary Ellen Archer at maryearcher@gmail.com or Jennifer Frazier at jlfrazier@gmail.com.

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