The Inaugural Civil Rights Law Institute at Monticello 2022 (USB Seminar)

A pre-recorded video replay of the June 2022 live webcast seminar, The Inaugural Civil Rights Law Institute at Monticello.

Policing is one of the most important civil rights issues facing our Commonwealth and nation today. It is crucial for lawyers to understand sensitive and complex topics such as police power on university campuses, litigating police misconduct cases, the law of excessive force, and legislation curtailing police abuses. Recognizing historical perspectives and staying up to date in this field are also important for lawyers handling civil rights and police misconduct cases.

To shed light on these issues, the Virginia Law Foundation partnered with The Virginia Bar Association, The Old Dominion Bar Association, and founding members from the Virginia State Bar's Diversity Conference to present the Inaugural Civil Rights Law Institute at Monticello. This first-of-its-kind institute focused on what we're calling the Law of Order and explored police misconduct and civil rights from legal and societal perspectives.

A world-class group of experts from various fields reviewed the subtleties of the laws surrounding civil rights and the latest developments in this field. Our spectacular group of panelists and moderators included Roger Gregory, Chief Judge of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals; University of Virginia School of Law Dean Risa Goluboff; and Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina Seth W. Stoughton, who was a key witness in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd.

These participants were joined by leading attorneys and scholars, key players in law enforcement and government, college administrators, journalists, historians, directors of civil rights organizations, and more.

COURSE TOPICS

FACULTY

Mary Bauer, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia
DeAnza A. Cook, History Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University
Chief Maggie DeBoard, Chief of Police, Herndon Police Department, Herndon, Virginia
Dr. Sally Hadden, Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History, Western Michigan
Professor Anna Lvovsky, Assistant Professor of Law Harvard Law School, Harvard University
Joseph Martins, Associate Dean, and Professor, Liberty University School of Law
Senator Jennifer L. McClellan, Virginia State Senator, Democrat, 9th District
Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Norfolk State University
Senator Thomas K. Norment, Jr., Virginia State Senator, Republican, 3rd District
Roscoe Roberts, Esq., Former Chief Counsel for the University of Virginia
Juval Scott, Public Defender, Western District of Virginia
Professor Seth W. Stoughton, Professor of Law, Professor (by Courtesy) of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina
John Venuti, Associate Vice President of Public Safety VCU and VCU Health System, and Chief of VCU Police Department
Professor Paul J. Zwier II, Professor of Law, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

MODERATORS/PARTICIPANTS

Leslie Greene Bowman, President, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Dean Risa Goluboff, Dean / University of Virginia School of Law
Chief Judge Roger L. Gregory, Fourth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals
Rudene Mercer Haynes, Partner / Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Alison M. McKee, Attorney, Kaufman & Canoles, Virginia Beach, Past President of the Virginia Bar Association
David Landin, Trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation; Past President, Virginia Bar Association and Virginia Law Foundation
Bruce C. Sams, Attorney, Law Office of Bruce C. Sams, President of the Old Dominion Bar Association
Ray White, Executive Director, Virginia Law Foundation