This is the preliminary schedule of PCLP speakers for the Spring of 2009.  All events except as noted will be Wednesday at 12:00 in Room 160.  Events are free and open to the University community, legal community, and the public.  Pizza will be served at 12:05 p.m., the talk will start at 12:20 p.m., and end by 1:20 p.m.  This schedule is subject to change; for the latest information, please consult http://uacj.typepad.com.  CLE credit for Arizona attorneys.

January 14. Professor Kevin Washburn, U of A Rogers College of Law.  Problems in Federal Criminal Justice in Indian Country. Criminal Justice in Indian country is a unique blend of federal, state and tribal jurisdiction.  Professor Washburn, a former federal prosecutor, has spent a not insubstantial portion of his academic career describing and analyzing the problems created when criminal justice in Indian country is run by federal officials.  He will discuss several of those problems.  Papers:  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=334714 

January 21.  April Wynne ’00, Assistant Attorney General, and Mary Beth Mitchell, Deputy Maricopa County Legal Defender, Sexually Violent Predator Proceedings in Arizona.

SPECIAL EVENT. Thursday, January 22, 12:15-1:30 p.m., Room 156. Federalize This! Why the Federalization of Crime is Bad for America, Commentary provided by Professor Reid Fontaine.  Co-Sponsored with The Federalist Society.

January 28.  Jonah Gelbach, Associate Professor, U of A Department of Economics.  Are Bail Amounts Racially Discriminatory? Evidence Using Outcome Analysis.

February 4. ROOM 156.  STARTING AT 12:20 p.m. Jim Jacobs, Warren E. Burger Professor of Law, NYU.  Bada Bing! The Mob, Money, and Mayhem.  Co-Sponsored with The Federalist Society.

February 11.  Justin M. Ruggieri, Assistant General Counsel, Tohono O'odham Gaming Enterprise. Quasi-Criminal Issues Arising in Tribal Gaming.  Co-Sponsored with the American Indian Studies Colloquium Series.

February 18.  Nick Jones, Old Pueblo Community Foundation. Reentry Issues and how Old Pueblo Community Services serves Southern Arizona’s newly released offenders. http://www.oldpueblofoundation.org 

SPECIAL EVENT, Monday, February 23, 3:00-4:30 Room 168.  Professor Stephen J. Morse
Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania, Freedom and Responsibility: The Implications of Neuroscience on the Free Will Debate, PANEL, featuring University of Arizona’s Dr. Lynn Nadel (Neuroscience), Dr. Shaun Nichols (Philosophy), Jack Chin (Law), Marc Miller (Law), and Dr. Reid Fontaine (Psychology and Law).  Co-Sponsored with The Federalist Society.

February 25.  To Be Announced.

March 4.  Hank Shea, Former Federal Prosecutor, now Senior Distinguished Fellow
University of St. Thomas School of Law the Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions. http://www.stthomas.edu/ethicalleadership/

March 11.   Marcia Rincon-Gallardo, M.S.W., Pima County Juvenile Court Center. Disproportionate Minority Confinement in Juvenile Facilities. Co-Sponsored with the American Indian Studies Colloquium Series.

March 18. SPRING BREAK.  NO LECTURE.

March 25. To Be Announced.

April 1. Professor David Bernstein, George Mason University. Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulation and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal.

April 8.   Eileen Luna-Firebaugh, Associate Professor of American Indian Law and
Policy. Police Accountability in Nigeria. Co-Sponsored with the American Indian Studies Colloquium Series.

April 15. Michele Convie, Program Coordinator, Women's Re-entry Network (WReN) www.wrenaz.org

April 22.  Micah Schmit, Assistant United States Attorney, Fred Urbina, Deputy Prosecutor, Pasqua Yaqui.  Prosecuting Crimes on Reservations.  Co-Sponsored with the American Indian Studies Colloquium Series.

April 29. To Be Announced.

For more information about the series, please contact Roger Hartley at rhartley@eller.arizona.edu, 520.621.3788, or Gabriel “Jack” Chin at jack.chin@law.arizona.edu, (520) 626-6004.