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A discussion with Matthew Clair, PhD of Stanford University as we dissect his recent book Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court (Published by Princeton University Press, November 2020), moderated by Travis County Chief Public Defender Adeola Ogunkeyede and joined by Porsha-Shaf’on Venable, Supervising Attorney at the Bronx Defenders and Director of Membership for the Black Public Defender’s Association.
Related Resources
- Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court by Matthew Clair
- Matthew Clair and Amanda Woog, Courts and the Abolitionist Movement, 110 Cal. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022)
- Unequal Before the Law: How did we end up with our current system of public defenders? by Matthew Clair, The Nation (December 14, 2020)
- Alexis Hoag, Black on Black Representation, 96 NYU L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021)
- Shaun Ossei-Owusu The Sixth Amendment Façade: The Racial Evolution of the Right to Counsel, 167 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1161 (2019)
- Do Public Defenders Spend Less Time on Black Clients?, by Maurice Chammah, The Marshall Project (May 2, 2016) (there are some studies, etc. within this article to look at as well)
- Andrea Lyon, Racial Bias and the Importance of Consciousness for Criminal Defense Attorneys, 35 Seattle U. L. Rev. 755 (2012)
- L. Song Richardson and Phillip A. Goff, Implicit Bias in Public Defender Triage, 122 Yale L.J. (2013)
- Gonçalves, Walter, Narrative, Culture, and Individuation: A Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Race-Conscious Approach to Reduce Implicit Bias for Latinxs, 18 Seattle J. Social Just. 333 (2019)
- Race Matters: The Impact of Race on Criminal Justice (2017) (free video content)
- Race Matters II: The Impact of Race on Criminal Justice (2019) (free video content)
- Race Matters III: The Intersection of Race and Criminal Justice (2020) (recorded CLE product)
- Black Public Defender Association, follow on Twitter: @BPDA_Justice
- Principles for Creating Sustainability in Public Defense, National Association for Public Defense (March 2021)
