Please join the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law and the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law for a panel discussion of "Manifesting Justice," a new book by Professor Valena Beety (ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law). Lunch will be served.
Panel Guests
Prof. Valena Beety (ASU)
Prof. Amber Baylor (Columbia)
Prof. Susan Sturm (Columbia)
About the Book
Through the lens of her work with the Innocence Movement and client Leigh Stubbs — a woman denied a fair trial in 2000 largely due to her sexual orientation — innocence litigator, activist and founder of West Virginia Innocence Project Valena Beety examines the failures in America’s criminal legal system and the reforms necessary to eliminate wrongful convictions — particularly with regards to women, the queer community and people of color.
Drawing on interviews with innocence advocates and wrongfully convicted women, along with Beety’s experiences as an expert litigator and a queer woman, "Manifesting Justice" provides a unique outsider-insider perspective. Beety expands our notion of justice to include people who are factually innocent as well as those who are over-charged, pressured into bad plea deals and over-sentenced. The result is a riveting and timely book that will transform our very ideas of crime and punishment, what innocence is and who should be free.
