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.
October 29, 2025 | The Secrets of the 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.
RegisterNovember 3, 2025 | The Tribal Nations Renaissance
Kevin Washburn, Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, will present “The Tribal Nations Renaissance (as Viewed Through the US Supreme Court Decisions in the Past Ten Years).”
This lecture will provide a review of the federal Indian law decisions issued by the U.S. Supreme Court in the past ten years and use the opinions to provide a perspective on the state of tribal governments in the United States today. It will also highlight issues expected to reach the Supreme Court in the next few years.
This has been approved for 1.0 continuing legal education credit in Nebraska.
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