Rethinking the War on Drugs - Symposium - Feb 20-21

Dates:February 20-21, 2014
Time: 8:30-5:30 (more below)
Location: Thorn Auditorium-NU School of Law
375 E. Chicago Ave.
Chicago
Co-Sponsored by the Harvard Club of Chicago

Rethinking the War on Drugs - A Symposium

Sponsored by the Seventh Circuit Bar Association Foundation
Co-Sponsored by Northwestern University School of Law
and The Harvard Club of Chicago

Dates: Thursday & Friday, February 20 & 21, 2014
Time: 8:30-5:30 (link to full program agenda below) 
Location: Thorn Auditorium-Northwestern University School of Law
375 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611
Webcast Live and Delayed

The symposium sponsors have assembled an all-star lineup of judges, prosecutors, medical personnel, professors, government officials (including Senator Richard Durbin and Tony Preckwinkle), economists and journalists for a vigorous “rethinking” of the War on Drugs, which began in 1971.
Federal and state governments have recently been reexamining drug laws and policies, many of which are legacies of the War on Drugs. High profile manifestations of these reexaminations include state initiatives to de-criminalize marijuana, Attorney General Holder’s August 2013 announcement of a change in federal prosecutorial policy on drug offenses, and legislation pending in Congress to grant greater sentencing discretion to the judiciary.
 
The two day symposium will address federal and state criminal laws for possession, use and sale of drugs; law enforcement, prosecutorial discretion and sentencing for same; addiction programs; prisonpopulations; social fabric of communities in which drug use is high; drug economics; EU approaches to the problem; and foreign policy directed at drug source.
 
The cost, including lunch, is $25/day.  MCLE credits available. 
(See links below for full agenda & pricing.)
Harvard alumni and their guests who would like to attend can register at:

Click here for more information from the Seventh Circuit Bar Association Foundation

Click here for full Program Agenda

Click here to Register


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