Presents a Conference on Leadership Issues in Criminal Justice Policy
The Radisson Hotel, Sacramento California
Wednesday, June 5, 2002
The Program
Program Schedule
Participants
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The Program
Criminal justice leaders and policy-makers need to keep their attention focused not only on managing existing programs, but on identifying major trends that influence the development of existing programs and creation of new programs. This conference is designed to explore the mega-trends that influence criminal justice policy.
Panel I - This year marks the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the Victims Bill of Rights in California, where the modern victims rights movement was founded. Victims rights, once a curiosity within the criminal justice system, is now a mainstream concern that influences all of criminal justice policy development. As we celebrate this anniversary, it is especially appropriate to look ahead to future developments in victims rights jurisprudence.
Panel II - The Victims Bill of Rights created new responsibilities for courts in criminal cases, and recent developments and initiatives (e.g., drugs courts, family courts and collaborative justice) have stretched courts into unchartered territory. Are courts flexible enough to handle these new roles? Do they have the resources and expertise to be successful in these new roles? And how do due process and equal protection fare in these new contexts?
Panel III - What are the major forces at work that drive the development of criminal justice policy? Fear? Retribution? Empirical results? Politics? Media? And in an ideal world, what should be driving criminal justice policy?
Panel IV - The Victims Bill of Rights was originally a voter initiative measure in California, and several other initiative measures have largely shaped criminal justice policy in California. What has been the role of the initiative process, what are the pitfalls of using that process, and can it be improved?
Program Schedule (Panels run consecutively)
SPECIAL GUEST: ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL LOCKYER
8:30 A.M. WELCOMING REMARKS
Professor J. Clark Kelso, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Professor Linda Carter, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law,
Program Moderator
PANEL I
LEADERSHIP AND RIGHTS FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME
"Victims Rights in the 21st Century"
Aileen Adams, Secretary, State & Consumer Services, California
"New Developments in Victims Rights from the Federal Perspective"
John W. Gillis, Director, Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justice
"Enforcing Victims Rights in Criminal Court - The Next Challenge"
Professor Douglas E. Beloof, Lewis & Clark College, Northwestern School of Law
"Victims Rights Reform - Where Do We Go From Here?"
Glenn Fait, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
PANEL II
LEADERSHIP AND NEW ROLES FOR THE JUDICIARY
"The Many Faces of California's Courts"
Diane Nunn, Director, Center for Families, Children & the Courts,
California Administrative Office of the Courts
"Separation of Powers and the Limits of the Judicial Function"
Professor Carl Baar, York University , Toronto
"Reinventing the Judicial Branch"
Professor J. Clark Kelso, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
12:00 - LUNCHEON AWARDS CEREMONY
PANEL III
LEADERSHIP AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY
"Who and What is Leading the Development of Criminal Justice Policy?"
Paul J. Pfingst, District Attorney, County of San Diego
"Should the Victims' Rights Movement Have Influence Over Criminal Law Formulation and Adjudication?"
Paul H. Robinson, Edna & Ednyfed Williams Professor of Law, Northwestern Univ.
"The Politics of Criminal Justice Policy"
Ted Gest, Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, Washington D.C.
"Criminal Justice Policy and the Defense Bar"
Professor Gerald Uelmen, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University
PANEL IV
THE INITIATIVE PROCESS: INFLUENCE AND PROPOSALS
FOR REFORM
"How Victims' Rights Came in the Back Door"
Professor Jennifer Friesen, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
"Something for Everyone? The Future of Comprehensive Criminal Justice Initiatives After Senate vs. Jones and Manduley vs. Superior Court"
Professor Mary-Beth Moylan, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
4:30 P.M. CLOSING REMARKS
PARTICIPANTS
Aileen Adams is the Secretary of the State and Consumer Services Agency for California. A former legal counsel to the rape-treatment center at Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center, she directed the Federal Office of Victims of Crime before returning to state service.
Carl Baar is a Professor of Law at York University in Toronto, Ontario. His areas of specialization include comparative and Canadian court organization and judicial processes. He has consulted on court reform in China, Singapore and Poland.
Douglas E. Beloof is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Crime Victim Law Institute at Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College. His book, Victims in Criminal Procedure, won a national award for writing in victimology and the law. He has also written The Third Model of Criminal Process: The Victim Participation Model.
Linda Carter is a Professor of Law at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. A former U.S. Department of Justice trial attorney and criminal defense attorney, she has written on death penalty, evidence and equal protection issues.
Glenn Fait is Director of the Institute for Administrative Justice, University of the Pacific. McGeorge School of Law. Associate Dean Fait is an expert in administrative law and the director of the Victims of Crime Resource Center at McGeorge.
Jennifer Friesen is a Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. A former legal counsel to the Oregon Legislature, her scholarship centers on state constitutional rights and she has written extensively on the initiative ballot process.
Ted Gest is a Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology based in Washington, D.C. A former writer and editor at U.S. News & World Report magazine, he authored Crime and Politics (2001), which chronicles anticrime policy in the United States since the late 1960's.
John W. Gillis is the Director of the Office of Victims of Crime, Department of Justice. He served as commissioner of the Board of Prison terms for the state of California from 1991 to 1999, holding the chairman's seat from 1991 to 1993. He
began his career in law enforcement as an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.
J. Clark Kelso is a Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law and Director of the Capital Center for Government Law & Policy. He has worked closely with all three branches of state government on legislation and court reform and served as Acting Insurance Commissioner for California in 2000.
Bill Lockyer is the Attorney General of California. As the state's chief law enforcement officer, his areas of emphasis have included expansion of a criminal DNA data base. A McGeorge graduate, he served in the Legislature for 25 years including a stint as leader of the state senate.
Mary-Beth Moylan is an Instructor of Legal Process at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. She teaches the California Initiative Seminar which produces the California Initiative Review, a non-partisan Internet publication that provides comprehensive, independent analyses of California ballot initiatives.
Diane Nunn is the Director of the Center for Families, Children & the Courts for the California Administrative Office of the Courts. She supervises projects related to family, juvenile, child support, custody, visitation, and domestic violence law and procedure. Ongoing projects include training, education, research and statistical analysis.
Paul Pfingst is the District Attorney of San Diego County. First elected to that position in 1994, he has been recognized in the national media as an innovator for his groundbreaking work in DNA evidence. He has argued important constitutional cases before the Court of Appeal and California Supreme Court.
Paul H. Robinson is the Edna & Ednyfed Williams Professor of Law at Northwestern University. One of the original commissioners of the United States Sentencing Commission, he is an internationally recognized scholar in criminal law who has lectured throughout the world.
Gerald Uelmen is Professor of Law and former Dean at Santa Clara University. A prolific writer, he has written numerous articles on the California Supreme Court, legal ethics, criminal law and related topics. He maintains an active part-time criminal defense practice and was a member of the defense team in the People v. O.J. Simpson.
MCLE CREDIT
This program has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education by The State Bar of California in the amount of six hours. McGeorge School of Law certifies that this activity conforms to standards for approved educational activities prescribed by the rules and regulation of the State Bar of California governing minimum continuing legal education.
Papers and Commentary presented at this conference will be published in a forthcoming issue of the McGeorge Law Review.
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