We're committed to our alumni and friends and proud to offer a variety of programming opportunities throughout the academic year. Our Continuing Legal Education (CLE) programs allows Nebraska Law faculty and distinguished guests to share their efforts to address current legal issues through legal research and scholarship.
Some of our programming opportunities are offered in person, remotely via Zoom, and/or both.
Please refer to each program separately for the ways in which you can attend.
Nebraska Law Review Symposium - Righting Wrongs Through Restoration
This symposium, brought together by the Nebraska Law Review, is a platform for timely and informed discussion, collaboration, and exchanges of ideas between law professors, attorneys, judges, affected persons, and journalists to shed light on critical aspects of restorative justice.
The keynote speaker will be Professor Michael Moffitt, Knight Chair in Law and former Dean at the University of Oregon School of Law. For several years, Michael has been engaged in a partnership with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute. Their collaboration has focused primarily on research connected to a series of tragic events that took place more than 150 years ago, culminating in the wrongful execution of five Cayuse Indians. In his talk, Michael will provide details on the ongoing work associated with this case. He will then use the case of the Cayuse Five as a springboard for contemplating the potential and the limits of restorative processes in cases of historical injustice(s).
Panels throughout the day will discuss the role of restorative justice in education, and explore the applications of restorative justice in non-traditional settings.
We anticipate this program will be approved for 5.25 continuing legal education credits in Nebraska.
RegisterThe Killing State
Lethal injection is nothing like what people think. This is its untold story.
In the popular imagination, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by well-qualified medical professionals. It is regulated and carefully conducted. And it is the most “humane” form of capital punishment. In reality, not one of these statements is true. In this presentation, Professor Corinna Lain pulls back the curtain of secrecy, presenting a view of lethal injection that states have worked hard to hide. The story of lethal injection is a story of state law-breaking and cover-ups, fake science and torturous drugs, gross incompetence by woefully inept executioners, and a stunning state indifference to the plight of the prisoners who are executed. Lain’s meticulously researched and utterly compelling exposé aims to prick the American conscience, spark outrage, and serve as a catalyst for important conversations about the propriety of state killing itself.
This presentation will be given by Professor Corinna Barrett Lain, S.D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law, one of the nation’s leading authorities on the death penalty.
This lecture is approved for 1.0 continuing education credit in Nebraska.
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