CORAL GABLES, FLA. (January 26, 2015) – Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle will be keynote speakers at the University of Miami Law Review Symposium, “Criminalized Justice: The Effects of Punitive Policy,” which takes place on Friday, February 6, from 11:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and Saturday, February 7, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Student Activities Center.

On Friday, February 6, the symposium will feature Fernandez Rundle, along with two panel discussions, “The Criminalization of Race and Poverty,” which will examine how and why individuals are more likely to be targeted by police because of their race, social class, or where they live; and “Sentencing Policy and Mass Incarceration,” which will focus on the impact that the same criminalization trend has had on incarceration.

Stevens will speak on Saturday, February 7, the same day that a third panel, “The Criminalization of Immigration Law,”  will explore how the enforcement of immigration laws has become increasingly criminalized since the Supreme Court’s landmark 1984 ruling in INS v. Lopez-Mendoza categorizing immigration proceedings as civil in nature.

The first panel will bring together Jeffrey Fagan, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School; Jonathan Simon, Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; and Tristia Bauman, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. The panel will be moderated by Charlton Copeland, professor of law at the University of Miami School of Law.

The second panel will feature Franklin Zimring, William G. Simon Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law;  Douglas Berman, Robert J. Watkins/Proctor & Gamble Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law; and Nicole Porter, The Sentencing Project. It will be moderated by Rebekah J. Poston, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs

The third panel will include Daniel Kanstroom, Professor of Law, Boston College Law School; Paromita Shah, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild; and Allegra McLeod, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown Law and be moderated by David Abraham, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law.

A roundtable discussion moderated by Mary Anne Franks, associate professor of law at MiamiLaw, will follow.

The symposium is sponsored by Gelber Schachter & Greenberg, P.A.; Hogan Lovells US LLP; Holland & Knight, LLP; Kenny Nachwalter, P.A.; Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, P.A.; LewisTein, P.L.; LexisAdvance; MiamiLaw/LAFAC, and Podhurst Orseck, P.A.

For more information and to RSVP please visit the website. For security reasons, attendees must be registered prior to the event. No walk-ins will be permitted on Saturday during Justice Stevens’ remarks. The event is free and open to the public. Register for CLE credits; the cost is $25 per day. Parking is available at the Pavia Garage, 5615 Pavia Street, Coral Gables, Florida.