Does Criminal Punishment of Police Contribute or Distract from Societal Reckonings with Racism?

Transitional Justice in the USA Speakers Series Part II Panel 2: Does Criminal Punishment of Police Contribute or Distract from Societal Reckonings with Racism? [webinar recorded February 28, 2022] This panel explores the role of police accountability in racial reckoning in the United States and discusses both the potential benefits and limitations of prosecuting police for racial violence and explores whether criminal accountability has lived up to its promise in other transitioning contexts to offer possible lessons for quests for retributive justice in the United States. In particular, the panel will explore whether criminal accountability has lived up to its promise in other transitioning contexts and what lessons we can learn from those examples that might be applicable in the United States. Co-organized by the Center for International Law and Policy at New England Law | Boston, the Transitional Justice-Rule of Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law and the Section on International Human Rights of the Association of American Law Schools MODERATOR: Rachel Lopez, Associate Professor of Law, Drexel University, Thomas R. Kline School of Law PANELISTS: • Roxanna Altholz, Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic, Berkeley Law School • Nikki Grant, Policy Director and Co-Founder, Amistad Law Project • Darryl Heller, Director of the IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center and Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Indiana University South Bend • Helen Mack Chang, President and Founder of the Myrna Mack Foundation Learn more about the series, find additional panel recordings, and register for upcoming events at http://bit.ly/TJintheUSA.