Join The Justice Collaboratory & the Law and Racial Justice Center for lunch and a rich discussion centering on an important new book Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom. This bold work by Vincent Schiraldi, a longtime justice advocate, calls community corrections into question. This dynamic panel features people directly impacted by probation & parole alongside longtime reformers.

Join the Justice Collaboratory, the Law and Racial Justice Center and The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law for lunch and a rich conversation centering The Other Side of Prospect, Nicholas Dawidoff's landmark book of a local wrongful conviction story.

The Justice & Society Yale College course was co-taught by the Justice Collaboratory and the Department of African American Studies. In this seminar, students cultivated a rich understanding of the layered dimensions associated with community vitality.

In their final project, students created mixed-medium explorations regarding the vitality of a community of which they are a member, focusing on the impact of the criminal-legal system/s. This symposium featured highlights of these remarkable works.

The Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School and Public Humanities at Yale honor beloved longtime New Haven resident Winfred Rembert—the late Georgia-born artist, Equal Justice Initiative honoree, and 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South—with a distinguished panel of intimates, artists, and scholars for an evening of discussion and community.

Join us on August 16, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. EST as NACOLE and the JC welcome Jorge Camacho and Tracey Meares to discuss recent trends and problems in policing regulation. They will offer insights into how structural reforms—like achieving immediate transparency and redefining how state and local governments oversee policing—can usher a new era of effective policing oversight.

Join us for a spellbinding big-screen movie going experience followed by a rich panel discussion.

The dynamic panelists - Justice Collaboratory member Professor Rodrigo Canales (SOM), Daniela Alatorre (Producer), Alexandra Zapata Hojel (Associate Producer & Impact Director), and Tony Reyes (Chief of Police (ret.) New Haven Police Department)—will share how vanguard policing research came to shape the script, the actors’ approach, and the roll out of this award-winning film by rising Mexican auteur Alonso Ruizpalacios.

The key to unlocking answers for some of policing’s most pressing questions lies in data held by police departments themselves. However, very little of this data is made public. This event in the Justice Collaboratory’s Fall 2021 Policing Conversations Series will identify what policing data is, what kinds of insights can be yielded from it, and how public access to it can be improved.

Dacher Keltner is a psychologist who studies how emotions like awe, compassion, desire, and pride, shape the individual's relationships as well as how individuals gain and lose power, status, and influence over others. He’ll share some of his work, followed by a discussion contextualizing his work within online community governance.

Many reform-minded cities and towns have encountered a significant roadblock: state laws that are specifically intended to prevent local reform. What are these laws, where are they in effect, and how can the obstacles they present be surmounted? This inaugural event in the Justice Collaboratory’s Fall 2021 Policing Conversation Series will offer answers.

Please join the Solomon Center in welcoming Senator Chris Murphy to discuss his book The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy.

On Tuesday, May 4th at 2 PM, join The Justice Collaboratory and Armando Lara-Millán, Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley for a discussion of Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity (Oxford University Press, 2021).

The Office of the Dean, in conjunction with the Liman Center, LSO, the Justice Collaboratory, and schools across the University, will be hosting a series of panels to examine the impact of the Derek Chauvin trial.

Join The Justice Collaboratory and Yanilda González, Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, for a discussion of Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America. In her timely book, González explains why coercive forms of policing have persisted in Latin America decades after democratic transitions.

Join Dr. Farzaneh Badiei, Kaveh Azarhoosh, and Professor Ethan Zuckerman, for a discussion about Telegram, community governance mechanisms and possible solutions for protection of communities at risk on social media platforms.

Join the Million Book Project for a virtual celebration of the Freedom Library and a round of "Name That Book" with host Dwayne Betts and contestents Emily Bazelon, Clint Smith and Nafissa Thompson-Spires. Clues performed by artist Kenzi James. Tune in to play along, root for a winner and learn about a few MBP surprises!

How should social media sites contend with harms users experience on the site, such as being targets of online harassment? Can harms be measured or quantified, and should they be? This talk will explore how different justice theories, such as restorative justice, racial justice, and reparative justice, can expose approaches for remediating harms experienced online.

How can we situate this new attempt at the universalization of norms in the context of past and ongoing universalist exercises such as, for example, International Human Rights. In this presentation, Baron will address these questions through an examination of content moderation policies and the controversies that surround them.

With the pro-social theme in mind, we have organized our first SMGI’s #Tea@2 session. Our speaker is Paolo Parigi, a member of SMGI’s Research Network. Paolo will talk to us about how technology transforms human trust.

A combination of biased data and decontextualized models has led to a host of “intelligent” algorithms that are capable of reflecting and exacerbating human biases. As the use of such algorithms in societal contexts proliferates, the question arises: How can we redesign them to mitigate bias?

Leading litigators discuss their successes, setbacks, and strategies in taking on gun violence—and gun manufacturers—in court.

The Justice Collaboratory welcomes Chelsea Parsons, VP of Gun Violence Prevention, Center for American Progress and Robyn Thomas, Executive Director, Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence as they speak on "Lobbying Against Gun Control: The Lobbyists, the Industry, and the Politics".

The Justice Collaboratory co-sponsored an event titled "The Uses and Abuses of History in Second Amendment Cases" with The Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy, Yale Legal History Forum, and the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. Guest speakers include Saul Cornell (Fordham), Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan), Mark Frassetto (Everytown for Gun Safety).

The Justice Collaboratory co-sponsored an event with Dwight Hall at Yale to welcome Will Snowden, Director of the New Orleans VERA Institute of Justice office. Mr. Snowden presented on the topic of "Reimagining Jury Duty & Bail Reform in the 21st Century".

The Justice Collaboratory welcomed Michael Lwin, CEO of KoeKoe Tech as he presented "Facebook, Hate Speech, Misinformation, and Myanmar". This event was co-sponsored with the Yale Computation & Society Initiative.

The Justice Collaboratory and the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy co-sponsored a debate about the relationship between cannabis use, mental illness, and violence.