2024 Symposium: Sentencing in America: The Tension Between Incarceration and Rehabilitation
The New 2023-2024 VJCL Executive Board
We are pleased to announce the incoming VJCL Executive Board for 2023-24 as follows:
Editors-in-Chief: Hayley Brower, Rowan Adams
The New 2022-2023 VJCL Executive Board
We are pleased to announce the incoming VJCL Executive Board for 2022-23 as follows:
Editor-in-Chief: Madeleine Hart
Articles Development Editor: David Wu
Managing Editor: Jennifer Scherschel
The New 2020-2021 VJCL Executive Board
We are pleased to announce the incoming VJCL Executive Board for 2020-21 as follows:
The New 2019-2020 VJCL Executive Board
VJCL is proud to announce the election of our newest executive board.
2019 VJCL Symposium: “Involuntary Manslaughter for Another’s Suicide: Theories of Causation and Culpability”
Friday, April 5, 2019
9:30am – 2:15pm | Purcell Reading Room
Mark your calendars to attend the 2019 Symposium on the causal connection between the actions of one party and the suicide of another, sponsored by the Virginia Journal of Criminal Law.
This year’s keynote speaker will be Professor Stephen Morse, Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.
The focus of the symposium will be the recent case of Michelle Carter, a young Massachusetts woman who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after convincing her boyfriend to kill himself via text message. Our speakers will discuss whether there was truly a sufficient causal nexus between the text messages and the suicide to convict Ms. Carter of manslaughter. We will also be discussing the issues with causation and moral culpability inherent in this context.
Our speakers will include Professor Susan Stefan, Professor Guyora Binder, and Professor Luis Chiesa.
Human Trafficking Institute Prostitution Debate
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
12:00 PM| Purcell Reading Room
VJCL will be cosponsoring an event with the Human Trafficking Institute. The event will be called Decriminalizing Prostution and the Effect on Human Trafficking: A Debate, Tuesday March 26, 12:00 PM, Purcell Reading Room. Trafficking for prostitution is one of the most common forms of human trafficking. But is prostitution inherently exploitative? Or can it be improved to maximize freedom and equality for everyone involved? Does increased regulation allow better oversight to prevent sex trafficking? Join Kate D’Adamo (former National Policy Advocate for Sex Workers Project) and Lisa Thompson (Vice President of Policy and Research for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation) for a debate to explore these questions. Ivy Provisions lunch provided.