Oregon Law Review Symposium

Oregon Law Review is pleased to announce its Volume 91 Symposium, A Step Forward: Creating a Just Drug Policy for the United States, hosted forty years after Oregon became the first state to decriminalize marijuana.

U.S. drug policy is an issue of major concern. The 2012 marijuana legalization initiatives in Colorado and Washington illustrate a growing popular skepticism of a drug criminalization regime that costs the United States billions of dollars and results in thousands of new incarcerations every year. While opinions about an ideal policy vary, the importance of a thoughtful evaluation of our nation’s punitive approach is clear. Panel discussion topics will include the unresolved issues of federalism presented by state initiatives, the costs and benefits of our nation’s drug laws, and the successful elements of alternative regimes in other nations.

6.5 hours of CLE credits approval pending. For more information about the Symposium, or for information about sponsorship, please contact Adam Schulz, Symposium Editor, at aschulz4@uoregon.edu.

We look forward to hosting the following speakers:

• Jeff Adachi, San Francisco Public Defender
• Michele Alexandre, Professor of Law, Mississippi University
• The Honorable Steven Alm, First Circuit Court of Hawaii
• Malcolm Beith, blogger and former Newsweek Editor
• Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law, University of Arizona
• Ernest Drucker, Professor of Public Health, Columbia University
• Jefferson Fish, Professor of Psychology, St. John’s University
• Fred Foldvary, Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University
• Chris Gibson, Officer, High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program
• James Gray, Retired California Judge
• Beau Kilmer, Director of Drug Policy Research, RAND Corp.
• Alex Kreit, Professor and Director of Social Policy, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
• Timothy Lynch, Director of Criminal Justice, CATO Institute
• Charles Manski, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
• Daniel Robelo, Researcher, Drug Policy Alliance
• Daniel Werb, Researcher, International Centre for Science in Drug Policy
• Mark Tushnet, Professor, Harvard Law School
• Eli Wald, Professor of Law, University of Denver

Additionally, our Symposium Issue will feature articles by the following authors:

• Jeff Adachi, San Francisco Public Defender
• Michele Alexandre, Prof. of Law, Mississippi University
• The Honorable Steven Alm, First Circuit of Hawaii
• Malcolm Beith, Former Newsweek Editor
• Peter Boettke et al., Professor of Economics, George Mason University
• Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law, University of Arizona
• Ernest Drucker, Professor of Public Health, Columbia University
• Steven Duke, Professor of Law, Yale University
• Fred Foldvary, Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University
• Chris Gibson, Officer, High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program
• Judge James Gray, Retired California Judge
• Sam Kamin, Professor of Law, University of Denver
• Beau Kilmer et al., Co-Director of Drug Policy Research, RAND Corp.
• Alex Kreit, Professor and Director of Social Policy, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
• Adam Liptak, Writer, N.Y. Times
• Charles Manski, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
• Daniel Robelo, Researcher, Drug Policy Alliance
• Kevin Sabet, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Drug Policy Institute at the University of Florida
• Daniel Werb, Researcher, International Center for Science in Drug Policy

Source: University of Oregon