Join the NIU College of Law for the next Race and the Law Conversation, “Race and the Fourth Amendment: The Past and Future of Litigation Strategies” on Wednesday, October 11 at 6:00 p.m. (CST) with Professor Daniel Harawa from New York University Law School. NIU Law Professor Dan McConkie will moderate.
This presentation will explore the role of race in Fourth Amendment policing doctrine, with a focus on how the legal profession has historically erased race, and a discussion about what we can do differently to begin to ensure that Fourth Amendment doctrine grapples with racial complexities of policing in America. The presentation will also touch on how to think about race in Fourth Amendment law in light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. CST
Register Now for this virtual Event via Zoom
COB Passport Code
FEATURED SPEAKER
Daniel Harawa is an Associate Professor of Clinical Law and Director of the Federal Appellate Clinic at the NYU School of Law. His scholarship focuses on race and the criminal legal system. Daniel is particularly interested in studying how doctrine, institutional design, and litigation practice contribute to the subordination of people of color. His research also contemplates novel innovations to limit the influence of race in the criminal legal process. Daniel’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, California Law Review (twice), Georgetown Law Journal, and Minnesota Law Review, among other journals. Daniel also regularly provides commentary on pressing criminal justice and civil rights issues, with his popular writings appearing in the Washington Post, Politico, Slate, Inquest, and SCOTUSblog. Prior to joining NYU, Daniel was an Associate Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, where he directed the Appellate Clinic and taught Evidence. Before that, Daniel was Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and an Appellate Staff Attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Daniel began his legal career clerking for the Honorable Roger L. Gregory of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
MODERATOR
Professor Daniel McConkie joined the NIU Law faculty in 2015. He mainly teaches courses in criminal law and criminal procedure. Professor McConkie was a prosecutor in California for eight years, first for the state and then for the federal government. As a federal prosecutor, he specialized in taking down large drug trafficking organizations and served as his office’s ethics advisor. His primary research interests are criminal procedure, mass incarceration, and the participation of ordinary citizens in criminal justice processes.
Professor McConkie holds an Honors B.A. degree in history from the University of Utah (2001), where he graduated cum laude, and a J.D. degree from Stanford Law School (2004), where he was a Public Interest Fellow. From 2013 to 2015, Professor McConkie was a visiting professor at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.
