Events

Tulane Law School, New Orleans, March 9, 2026
Gender and the Carceral State, Law and Society Annual Conference, Chicago, May 2025.
Emancipating Expert Evidence, Evidence Summer Workshop, Vanderbilt Law School, May 5, 2025.
Queerness and Wrongful Convictions, National Innocence Network Conference, Seattle, April 4, 2025.
Emancipating Expert Evidence, Critical Evidence Colloquium, Fordham Law School, March 28, 2025.
“Unfit”: Gender, Ableism and Reproductive Wrongful Convictions, West Coast Sexuality, Gender, & Law Conference, UC-Irvine Law School, Feb. 21, 2025.  
“Unfit”: Gender, Ableism and Reproductive Wrongful Convictions, University of Chicago Workshop on Regulation of Family, Sex, and Gender, Chicago Law School, Feb. 12, 2025.
Pregnancy “Crimes”: New Research and Advocacy, Criminal Justice Panel, AALS Annual Conference, San Francisco, January 10, 2025.
Disability, Gender, and Wrongful Convictions, ABA/AALS Criminal Justice WIP Roundtable, November 2024.
No Crime Wrongful Convictions: Gender, Identity, and Criminalization, Keynote Speaker, 25th Anniversary of the CSU Criminal Justice Forum, Cleveland State University College of Law, Oct. 29, 2024.
Challenging LGBTQIA+ Bias in the Criminal Legal System, Lawline, Oct. 3, 2024.
Disability, Gender, and Wrongful Convictions, International Academy of Law and Mental Health International Congress, Barcelona, Spain, July 23, 2024.
Re-Thinking Junk Science and Death Investigations, Tsai Center for Law, Science & Innovation, Southern Methodist University, Santa Fe, June 23, 2024.
Manifesting Justice, Book Presentation, University of Puerto Rico Law School, December 5, 2023.
Unpopular Victims, ABA/AALS Criminal Justice WIP Roundtable, November 16, 2023.
Harms of Drug Criminalization, Vermont Reimagining Drug Policy Conference, Drug Policy Alliance, November 9, 2023.
Wrongful Convictions Across the Country, speaker and moderator, Just Data Innocence Project Symposium, November 8, 2023.
Bodily Autonomy and Wrongful Convictions, Canadian Criminal Law Professors Workshop, October 6, 2023.
Wrongful Convictions of Women, Vanderbilt Law School, September 27, 2023.
Policing Pregnancy Crimes, European Society of Criminology, Florence, Italy, September 6, 2023.
Author Meets Reader: Manifesting Justice, Law and Society Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 20, 2023.
Manifesting Justice, Book Presentation, AALS Annual Clinical Conference, San Francisco, April 30, 2023.
LGBTQ+ Wrongful Convictions, Innocence Network Conference, Phoenix, April 12, 2023.
Manifesting Justice, Keynote Speaker, Law Journal for Social Justice Innocent Behind Bars Symposium on Over-Criminalization, Arizona State University, March 1, 2023.
Miscarriages of Justice, Speaker and Symposium Organizer, Academy for Justice: Miscarriages of Justice Symposium, Arizona State University, February 2023.
Criminal Justice Section New Scholars Panel, Organizer and Reviewer, AALS Annual Conference, San Diego, January 10, 2023.
Policing Pregnancy “Crimes,” ABA/AALS Criminal Justice WIP Roundtable, December 3, 2022.
Manifesting Justice, Book Presentation, NYU Law School, October 2022.
Manifesting Justice, Book Presentation, Fordham Law School, October 2022.
Manifesting Justice, Book, Presentation, Columbia Law School, October 2022.
Innocence Work and Savior Lawyers, presenter at Crimfest, Cardozo Law School, July 18, 2022.
Clemency for Federal Marijuana Charges, conference organizer, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Academy for Justice and The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Drug Enforcement and Policy Center, Washington, D.C., July 10, 2022.
Innocence Work and Savior Lawyers, Crim Schmooze, Fordham Law School, June 9, 2022.
Hindsight: Facial Recognition Software v. Eyewitness Identification, Machine Testimony Symposium, invited speaker and author, Duquesne Law School, April 8, 2022.
Sentinel Event Reviews in Arizona, Sentinel Event Review Symposium, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, February 6, 2022.
Criminal Justice Section New Scholars Panel, organizer and reviewer, AALS Annual Conference, Virtual, January, 2022.
Hindsight: Facial Recognition Software v. Eyewitness Identification, ABA/AALS Criminal Justice WIP Roundtable, November 4, 2021.
Drug Induced Homicide and Rural Criminal Justice, Presentation, St. Louis University School of Law, October 28, 2021.
Drug Induced Homicide, presentation, Northeastern Law School, October 19, 2021.
Manifesting Justice, presentation, UC Davis Law School, September 25, 2021.
Drug Policy and Sentencing, conference organizer, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Academy for Justice and The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Drug Enforcement and Policy Center, virtual, June 25, 2021.
Batson Reform Rule Proposals, key presentation, Arizona State Bar Conference for the Judiciary, Scottsdale, June 12, 2021.
Author Meets Reader: The Feminist War on Crime, Aya Gruber, speaker, Law and Society Annual Conference, virtual, May 29, 2021.
Author Meets Reader: Smoke But No Fire, Jessica Henry, speaker, Law and Society Annual Conference, virtual, May 28, 2021.
COVID-19 and Criminal Justice, symposium organizer and author, Arizona State Law Journal Covid 19 and Vulnerable Populations Symposium, November 6, 2020.
State of Incarceration Virtual Summit, Keynote: Racism and Incarceration, Arizona State University Center for Child Well-Being, Tempe, AZ, Oct. 7, 2020.
What Is A Criminal?  Returning Citizens: Reentry and Reintegration of Formerly Incarcerated People, invited panelist, The Saul O. Sidore Memorial Lecture Series, University of New Hampshire Center for the Humanities, NH, April 28, 2020.
Celebrating Law & Society Review Conference, invited paper reviewer, Arizona State University T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Tempe, AZ, Feb. 28, 2020.
The Controlled Substance Act at 50 Years, conference organizer, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Academy for Justice and The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Drug Enforcement and Policy Center, Phoenix, AZ, Feb. 20-22, 2020.
Neuroscience and the Law, invited panelist, Seton Hall Law School Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ, Feb. 14, 2020.
AALS Section on Criminal Justice, State Habeas and Changed Science Writs, selected panelist, Association of American Law Schools Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., January 3, 2020.
AALS Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, New Voices in Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law,invited paper reviewer, Association of American Law Schools Annual Conference, Washington, DC, January 3, 2020.
Forensic Evidence Admissibility: A Retrospective, invited panelist, Forensic Science Ten Years after the National Research Council Report, Houston Law Review Symposium, Houston, TX, Sept. 19, 2019. 
Discussion Group: Effective Teaching Strategies for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, invited discussant, Southeastern Association of Law Schools, Boca Raton, Florida, July 30, 2019.
State Habeas and Changed Science Writs, presentation at CrimFest, Brooklyn School of Law, July 16, 2019.
People of Color in the Rural United States, invited panelist, National People of Color Conference, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., March 22, 2019.
The Drug-Induced Homicide Defense Toolkit, invited panelist, The Opioid Crisis and the Practice of Law, South Carolina Law Review Symposium, Columbia, SC, Feb. 8, 2019.
Prosecuting Opioid Use, Punishing Rurality, invited panelist, Facing Opioids: Drug Enforcement & Health Policy in Today’s Epidemic, Ohio State Law Journal Symposium, Columbus, OH, Oct. 19, 2018.
Rurality & Criminal Practice, presentation at SALT Teaching Conference, Penn State Law School, University Park, PA, Oct. 6, 2018.
The Future of the Death Penalty and Capital Litigation, discussant, Southeastern Association of Law Schools, Fort Lauderdale, FL, August 5, 2018.
Drug-Induced Homicide Prosecutions, presentation at CrimFest, Cardozo School of Law, July 17, 2018.
Evidence on Fire, invited faculty colloquium paper presenter at University of Washington School of Law Shefelman Faculty Workshop, Seattle, WA, May 17, 2018.
  Drug-Induced Homicide Prosecutions in West Virginia, key-note speaker, Federal Criminal   
 Justice Act Panel Seminar, Appreciation Dinner, Glade Springs, WV, May 3, 2018.
Innocence and Science, invited panelist, From The Crime Lab to The Courtroom, Georgia State University Law Review Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, April 6, 2018.
Innocence Scholarship, panel organizer at Innocence Network Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, March 23, 2018.
Criminal Justice in an Epidemic, moderator and panel presenter, West Virginia Law Review 2018 Appalachian Justice Symposium, West Virginia University College of Law, Morgantown, WV, February 23, 2018.