0071 Stephen Bright (Law Professor)

Guestbook Podcast

Episode 71 of Guestbook Podcast. In town as a visiting lecturer at Georgetown Law School for his Fall semester seminar "Race and Poverty in Capital and Other Criminal Cases", Stephen Bright returns as a guest at Union Inn to discuss with Innkeeper Freddie several of the structural injustices that currently plague the US criminal court system. "Rigged: Rigged: When Race and Poverty Determine Outcomes in the Criminal Courts" (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 2016): https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/79750/OSJCL_V14N1_263.pdf Bio: Stephen B. Bright is Professor of Practice at Georgia State College of Law, as well as the Harvey Karp Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a visiting professor of law at Georgetown. He spent 35 years at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, first as director for 22 years and then as president and senior counsel through 2016. He has tried capital cases to juries in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi and argued and won four capital cases before the Supreme Court. Subjects of his litigation, teaching and writings include capital punishment, legal representation of poor people accused of crimes, racial discrimination, conditions and practices in prisons and jails, and judicial independence. He received the American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award in 1998. The Fulton Daily Law Report, a legal newspaper in Georgia, named him “Newsmaker of the Year” in 2003 for his contribution to bringing about creation of a public defender system in Georgia. Before joining the Southern Center, he was a legal services attorney in Appalachia, and a public defender and director of a law school clinical program in Washington, DC. The Internets: W: https://law.yale.edu/stephen-b-bright Recorded at Union Inn in the heart of Washington, DC, Guestbook Podcast is hosted by world-famous conversationalist and host-extraordinaire Innkeeper Freddie. Join him weekly as he interviews the myriad of guests who visit his home/inn. IG: @guestbookpod | @innkeeperfreddie | @unioninndc W: http://unioninndc.com E: [e-mail]