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Mar 15 2012
Thursday 12:00 a.m. EDT    

A Shooting on the Ides of March

Duke Student Chapter

Durham, NC
Speakers:
James E. Coleman • Jack Kress • S.M Mihaich
Sponsors:
Duke Student Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Mar 14 2012
Wednesday 12:00 a.m.    

Police Use of Deadly Force

Speakers:
Jack Kress • Richard E. Myers
Topics:
Criminal Law & Procedure
Sponsors:
North Carolina Student Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Mar 13 2012
Tuesday 12:00 p.m.    

Police Use of Deadly Force

Speakers:
Jack Kress
Sponsors:
Elon Student Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Mar 12 2012
Monday 11:45 a.m.    

Police Use of Deadly Force

Raleigh, North Carolina
Speakers:
Jack Kress • E. Gregory Wallace
Sponsors:
Campbell Student Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Feb 15 2012
Wednesday 12:00 a.m.    

Judicial Confirmations

Topics:
Federalism & Separation of Powers
Sponsors:
Brigham Young Student Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Oct 20 2011
Thursday 12:30 p.m.    

Police Use of Deadly Force

Speakers:
Jack Kress
Sponsors:
Loyola - New Orleans Student Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Oct 19 2011
Wednesday 12:00 p.m.    

When May Police Use Deadly Force?

Speakers:
Jack Kress
Sponsors:
Tulane Student Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Oct 18 2011
Tuesday 12:00 p.m.    

Shoot to Kill: Understanding Police Use of Deadly Force

Speakers:
Cheney Joseph • Jack Kress
Sponsors:
Louisiana State Student Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Sep 26 2011
Monday 12:00 p.m.    

Should Judges Protect Unenumerated Rights?

Speakers:
Roger Pilon
Topics:
Federalism & Separation of Powers
Sponsors:
George Mason Student Chapter
  • In-Person Event
Apr 6 2011
Wednesday 6:00 p.m.    

Lessons of the Sotomayor and Kagan Confirmation Processes: The Political Triumph of Judicial Conservatism

Topics:
Federalism & Separation of Powers
Sponsors:
Wisconsin Student Chapter
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James E. Coleman

James E. Coleman

John S. Bradway Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law; Director, Wrongful Convictions Clinic; Director, Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility, Duke Law School

Biography

Jim Coleman is the John S. Bradway Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law, Director of the Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility, and Director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic at Duke Law School. He is a graduate of Columbia University (J.D. 1974), and Harvard University (A.B. 1970).

Jim is a native of Charlotte, North Carolina. His experience includes fifteen years in private practice in Washington, D.C., the last twelve as a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. In private practice, Jim specialized in federal court and administrative litigation; he also represented criminal defendants in capital collateral proceedings and was an active participant in his firm’s pro bono program. Jim also has had a range of government experience during the early part of his career, including stints as an assistant general counsel for the Legal Services Corporation, chief counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, and deputy general counsel for the U.S. Department of Education.

During his career, Jim has been active in the American Bar Association, where he served as Chair of the ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities and of the ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project, and has served on various state commissions focused on wrongful convictions, the death penalty, and criminal justice generally.

Jim joined the Duke faculty full-time in 1996, where his teaching responsibilities have included criminal law, wrongful convictions, and the appellate litigation clinic, which he and Erwin Chemerinsky started. His academic work, conducted through the Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility, centers on the legal, political, and scientific causes of wrongful convictions and how they can be prevented. His administrative work for the University has included chairing the Lacrosse ad hoc Review Committee and the Duke Athletic Council.

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Jack Kress

The Ethics and Justice Center

Biography

Prof. Jack Kress

Director, Ethics and Justice Center 

Jack Kress has published more than 15 books and 70 articles on various issues of justice and ethics.  He is perhaps best known for his early work co-originating the very concept of sentencing guidelines and directing the research projects that developed and implemented the first sentencing guidelines systems in America; he has been called the "father of sentencing guidelines" by ABC News.  He helped establish the sentencing guidelines systems now in place in more than half the states, and also worked with Congress and the Department of Justice in first bringing the United States Sentencing Commission into existence.  An elected life member of the American Law Institute, Professor Kress lectures broadly on criminal justice and sentencing reform; he is presently consulting with the ALI's Reporter in revising the Model Penal Code's sentencing provisions.

Professor Jack Kress holds degrees from Columbia University and Cambridge University; he has been tenured and taught at several law and other graduate schools.  A former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, his more recent work has been in ethics and bioethics.

In 1990, Professor Kress was named Special Counsel for Ethics and Designated Agency Ethics Official for the United States Department of Health and Human Services, where he worked with the Office of White House Counsel and the U. S. Office of Government Ethics in formulating the federal government's ethics policies; he concurrently directed the largest federal ethics and bioethics program, encompassing all components of HHS, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  In 2001, Jack Kress was selected as the first Executive Director of the HHS Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, and led that group in promulgating and implementing more than forty recommendations for reform in America’s donation and transplantation system, including the establishment of the national breakthrough collaborative.  From 2004-2009, Professor Kress was a core faculty member of the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College.  His most recent peer-reviewed article was published in the prestigious American Journal of Transplantation.  He presently directs the Ethics and Justice Center in Saratoga Springs, New York.   See www.ethicsandjustice.org



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S.M Mihaich

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Jack Kress

The Ethics and Justice Center

Biography

Prof. Jack Kress

Director, Ethics and Justice Center 

Jack Kress has published more than 15 books and 70 articles on various issues of justice and ethics.  He is perhaps best known for his early work co-originating the very concept of sentencing guidelines and directing the research projects that developed and implemented the first sentencing guidelines systems in America; he has been called the "father of sentencing guidelines" by ABC News.  He helped establish the sentencing guidelines systems now in place in more than half the states, and also worked with Congress and the Department of Justice in first bringing the United States Sentencing Commission into existence.  An elected life member of the American Law Institute, Professor Kress lectures broadly on criminal justice and sentencing reform; he is presently consulting with the ALI's Reporter in revising the Model Penal Code's sentencing provisions.

Professor Jack Kress holds degrees from Columbia University and Cambridge University; he has been tenured and taught at several law and other graduate schools.  A former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, his more recent work has been in ethics and bioethics.

In 1990, Professor Kress was named Special Counsel for Ethics and Designated Agency Ethics Official for the United States Department of Health and Human Services, where he worked with the Office of White House Counsel and the U. S. Office of Government Ethics in formulating the federal government's ethics policies; he concurrently directed the largest federal ethics and bioethics program, encompassing all components of HHS, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  In 2001, Jack Kress was selected as the first Executive Director of the HHS Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, and led that group in promulgating and implementing more than forty recommendations for reform in America’s donation and transplantation system, including the establishment of the national breakthrough collaborative.  From 2004-2009, Professor Kress was a core faculty member of the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College.  His most recent peer-reviewed article was published in the prestigious American Journal of Transplantation.  He presently directs the Ethics and Justice Center in Saratoga Springs, New York.   See www.ethicsandjustice.org



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Richard E. Myers

Richard E. Myers

Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Biography

A native of Kingston, Jamaica, Myers was a Chancellors Scholar at the UNC School of Law, where he graduated with high honors in 1998. Upon graduation from law school, he clerked in Washington, D.C., for the Hon. David Sentelle on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and then entered private practice as a litigator for O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, in Los Angeles California. After two years with the White Collar Criminal Law and Environmental and regulatory Compliance Practice Group, he left private practice in January 2002 to become an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central District of California. In September, 2002, he transferred to the Eastern District of North Carolina in Raleigh, where he prosecuted white collar and violent crimes, and headed the district's Violent Crimes Task Force for Wilmington and New Hanover and Pender Counties.

Myers joined the UNC Law School faculty in July 2004, where he taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Ethics, and a seminar on White Collar Crime. He was confirmed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina in 2019. 



  • J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1998)
  • M.A., University of North Carolina at Wilmington (1994)
  • B.A., University of North Carolina at Wilmington (1989)
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Jack Kress

The Ethics and Justice Center

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Prof. Jack Kress

Director, Ethics and Justice Center 

Jack Kress has published more than 15 books and 70 articles on various issues of justice and ethics.  He is perhaps best known for his early work co-originating the very concept of sentencing guidelines and directing the research projects that developed and implemented the first sentencing guidelines systems in America; he has been called the "father of sentencing guidelines" by ABC News.  He helped establish the sentencing guidelines systems now in place in more than half the states, and also worked with Congress and the Department of Justice in first bringing the United States Sentencing Commission into existence.  An elected life member of the American Law Institute, Professor Kress lectures broadly on criminal justice and sentencing reform; he is presently consulting with the ALI's Reporter in revising the Model Penal Code's sentencing provisions.

Professor Jack Kress holds degrees from Columbia University and Cambridge University; he has been tenured and taught at several law and other graduate schools.  A former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, his more recent work has been in ethics and bioethics.

In 1990, Professor Kress was named Special Counsel for Ethics and Designated Agency Ethics Official for the United States Department of Health and Human Services, where he worked with the Office of White House Counsel and the U. S. Office of Government Ethics in formulating the federal government's ethics policies; he concurrently directed the largest federal ethics and bioethics program, encompassing all components of HHS, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  In 2001, Jack Kress was selected as the first Executive Director of the HHS Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, and led that group in promulgating and implementing more than forty recommendations for reform in America’s donation and transplantation system, including the establishment of the national breakthrough collaborative.  From 2004-2009, Professor Kress was a core faculty member of the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College.  His most recent peer-reviewed article was published in the prestigious American Journal of Transplantation.  He presently directs the Ethics and Justice Center in Saratoga Springs, New York.   See www.ethicsandjustice.org



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Jack Kress

The Ethics and Justice Center

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Prof. Jack Kress

Director, Ethics and Justice Center 

Jack Kress has published more than 15 books and 70 articles on various issues of justice and ethics.  He is perhaps best known for his early work co-originating the very concept of sentencing guidelines and directing the research projects that developed and implemented the first sentencing guidelines systems in America; he has been called the "father of sentencing guidelines" by ABC News.  He helped establish the sentencing guidelines systems now in place in more than half the states, and also worked with Congress and the Department of Justice in first bringing the United States Sentencing Commission into existence.  An elected life member of the American Law Institute, Professor Kress lectures broadly on criminal justice and sentencing reform; he is presently consulting with the ALI's Reporter in revising the Model Penal Code's sentencing provisions.

Professor Jack Kress holds degrees from Columbia University and Cambridge University; he has been tenured and taught at several law and other graduate schools.  A former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, his more recent work has been in ethics and bioethics.

In 1990, Professor Kress was named Special Counsel for Ethics and Designated Agency Ethics Official for the United States Department of Health and Human Services, where he worked with the Office of White House Counsel and the U. S. Office of Government Ethics in formulating the federal government's ethics policies; he concurrently directed the largest federal ethics and bioethics program, encompassing all components of HHS, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  In 2001, Jack Kress was selected as the first Executive Director of the HHS Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, and led that group in promulgating and implementing more than forty recommendations for reform in America’s donation and transplantation system, including the establishment of the national breakthrough collaborative.  From 2004-2009, Professor Kress was a core faculty member of the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College.  His most recent peer-reviewed article was published in the prestigious American Journal of Transplantation.  He presently directs the Ethics and Justice Center in Saratoga Springs, New York.   See www.ethicsandjustice.org



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E. Gregory Wallace

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Jack Kress

The Ethics and Justice Center

Biography

Prof. Jack Kress

Director, Ethics and Justice Center 

Jack Kress has published more than 15 books and 70 articles on various issues of justice and ethics.  He is perhaps best known for his early work co-originating the very concept of sentencing guidelines and directing the research projects that developed and implemented the first sentencing guidelines systems in America; he has been called the "father of sentencing guidelines" by ABC News.  He helped establish the sentencing guidelines systems now in place in more than half the states, and also worked with Congress and the Department of Justice in first bringing the United States Sentencing Commission into existence.  An elected life member of the American Law Institute, Professor Kress lectures broadly on criminal justice and sentencing reform; he is presently consulting with the ALI's Reporter in revising the Model Penal Code's sentencing provisions.

Professor Jack Kress holds degrees from Columbia University and Cambridge University; he has been tenured and taught at several law and other graduate schools.  A former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, his more recent work has been in ethics and bioethics.

In 1990, Professor Kress was named Special Counsel for Ethics and Designated Agency Ethics Official for the United States Department of Health and Human Services, where he worked with the Office of White House Counsel and the U. S. Office of Government Ethics in formulating the federal government's ethics policies; he concurrently directed the largest federal ethics and bioethics program, encompassing all components of HHS, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  In 2001, Jack Kress was selected as the first Executive Director of the HHS Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, and led that group in promulgating and implementing more than forty recommendations for reform in America’s donation and transplantation system, including the establishment of the national breakthrough collaborative.  From 2004-2009, Professor Kress was a core faculty member of the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College.  His most recent peer-reviewed article was published in the prestigious American Journal of Transplantation.  He presently directs the Ethics and Justice Center in Saratoga Springs, New York.   See www.ethicsandjustice.org



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Jack Kress

The Ethics and Justice Center

Biography

Prof. Jack Kress

Director, Ethics and Justice Center 

Jack Kress has published more than 15 books and 70 articles on various issues of justice and ethics.  He is perhaps best known for his early work co-originating the very concept of sentencing guidelines and directing the research projects that developed and implemented the first sentencing guidelines systems in America; he has been called the "father of sentencing guidelines" by ABC News.  He helped establish the sentencing guidelines systems now in place in more than half the states, and also worked with Congress and the Department of Justice in first bringing the United States Sentencing Commission into existence.  An elected life member of the American Law Institute, Professor Kress lectures broadly on criminal justice and sentencing reform; he is presently consulting with the ALI's Reporter in revising the Model Penal Code's sentencing provisions.

Professor Jack Kress holds degrees from Columbia University and Cambridge University; he has been tenured and taught at several law and other graduate schools.  A former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, his more recent work has been in ethics and bioethics.

In 1990, Professor Kress was named Special Counsel for Ethics and Designated Agency Ethics Official for the United States Department of Health and Human Services, where he worked with the Office of White House Counsel and the U. S. Office of Government Ethics in formulating the federal government's ethics policies; he concurrently directed the largest federal ethics and bioethics program, encompassing all components of HHS, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  In 2001, Jack Kress was selected as the first Executive Director of the HHS Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, and led that group in promulgating and implementing more than forty recommendations for reform in America’s donation and transplantation system, including the establishment of the national breakthrough collaborative.  From 2004-2009, Professor Kress was a core faculty member of the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College.  His most recent peer-reviewed article was published in the prestigious American Journal of Transplantation.  He presently directs the Ethics and Justice Center in Saratoga Springs, New York.   See www.ethicsandjustice.org



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Cheney Joseph

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Jack Kress

The Ethics and Justice Center

Biography

Prof. Jack Kress

Director, Ethics and Justice Center 

Jack Kress has published more than 15 books and 70 articles on various issues of justice and ethics.  He is perhaps best known for his early work co-originating the very concept of sentencing guidelines and directing the research projects that developed and implemented the first sentencing guidelines systems in America; he has been called the "father of sentencing guidelines" by ABC News.  He helped establish the sentencing guidelines systems now in place in more than half the states, and also worked with Congress and the Department of Justice in first bringing the United States Sentencing Commission into existence.  An elected life member of the American Law Institute, Professor Kress lectures broadly on criminal justice and sentencing reform; he is presently consulting with the ALI's Reporter in revising the Model Penal Code's sentencing provisions.

Professor Jack Kress holds degrees from Columbia University and Cambridge University; he has been tenured and taught at several law and other graduate schools.  A former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, his more recent work has been in ethics and bioethics.

In 1990, Professor Kress was named Special Counsel for Ethics and Designated Agency Ethics Official for the United States Department of Health and Human Services, where he worked with the Office of White House Counsel and the U. S. Office of Government Ethics in formulating the federal government's ethics policies; he concurrently directed the largest federal ethics and bioethics program, encompassing all components of HHS, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  In 2001, Jack Kress was selected as the first Executive Director of the HHS Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, and led that group in promulgating and implementing more than forty recommendations for reform in America’s donation and transplantation system, including the establishment of the national breakthrough collaborative.  From 2004-2009, Professor Kress was a core faculty member of the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College.  His most recent peer-reviewed article was published in the prestigious American Journal of Transplantation.  He presently directs the Ethics and Justice Center in Saratoga Springs, New York.   See www.ethicsandjustice.org



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Roger Pilon

Roger Pilon

Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute

Biography

Roger Pilon is the Cato’s Institute’s vice president for legal affairs, the founding director of Cato’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, the inaugural holder of Cato’s B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies, and the founding publisher of the Cato Supreme Court Review.

Prior to joining Cato, Pilon held five senior posts in the Reagan administration, including at State and Justice, and was a national fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. In 1989 the Bicentennial Commission presented him with its Benjamin Franklin Award for excellence in writing on the U.S. Constitution. In 2001 Columbia University’s School of General Studies awarded him its Alumni Medal of Distinction. Pilon lectures and debates at universities and law schools across the country and testifies often before Congress.

His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Legal Times, National Law Journal, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Stanford Law and Policy Review, and elsewhere. He has appeared on ABC’s Nightline, CBS’s 60 Minutes II, Fox News Channel, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, C-SPAN, and other media.

Pilon holds a BA from Columbia University, an MA and a PhD from the University of Chicago, and a JD from the George Washington University School of Law.

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