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Bryan Stevenson with Liliana Segura, Conversation, 15 January 2014 – Video

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 15, 2014.

Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer and the Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama. His work focuses on race relations, social policy, and the prison industrial system. He spoke on the 85th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The talk was followed by a conversation with Liliana Segura.

This event was part of the Lannan In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom series.

Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a nonprofit organization headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, and a professor at New York University School of Law. He has gained national acclaim for his work challenging the U.S. legal system’s biases against the incarcerated, the poor, and people of color. EJI recently won a historic ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court holding that mandatory life imprisonment without parole sentences for children 17 years or younger is unconstitutional. He has been awarded the ACLU National Medal of Liberty, the National Public Interest Lawyer of the Year Award, and the NAACP Ming Award for Advocacy for his work.

In this episode he is joined in conversation with Liliana Segura. The companion Talk episode may be found here.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also listen to the audio recording of this event there.

Bryan Stevenson with Liliana Segura, Talk, 15 January 2014 – Video

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 15, 2014.

Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer and the Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama. His work focuses on race relations, social policy, and the prison industrial system. He spoke on the 85th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The talk was followed by a conversation with Liliana Segura.

This event was part of the Lannan In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom series.

Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a nonprofit organization headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, and a professor at New York University School of Law. He has gained national acclaim for his work challenging the U.S. legal system’s biases against the incarcerated, the poor, and people of color. EJI recently won a historic ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court holding that mandatory life imprisonment without parole sentences for children 17 years or younger is unconstitutional. He has been awarded the ACLU National Medal of Liberty, the National Public Interest Lawyer of the Year Award, and the NAACP Ming Award for Advocacy for his work.

In this episode he is introduced by Liliana Segura and then gives a talk. The companion Conversation episode may be found here“>here.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also listen to the audio recording of this event there.

Bryan Stevenson with Liliana Segura, 15 January 2014 – Audio

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 15, 2014.

Bryan Stevenson with Liliana Segura

Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer and the Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama. His work focuses on race relations, social policy, and the prison industrial system. He spoke on the 85th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The talk was followed by a conversation with Liliana Segura.

This event was part of the Lannan In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom series.

Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a nonprofit organization headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, and a professor at New York University School of Law. He has gained national acclaim for his work challenging the U.S. legal system’s biases against the incarcerated, the poor, and people of color. EJI recently won a historic ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court holding that mandatory life imprisonment without parole sentences for children 17 years or younger is unconstitutional. He has been awarded the ACLU National Medal of Liberty, the National Public Interest Lawyer of the Year Award, and the NAACP Ming Award for Advocacy for his work.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also view the video recordings of this event there.

Michael Ratner with Mary-Charlotte Domandi, Conversation, 24 May 2011 – Video

Recorded at the James A. Little Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 24, 2011.

Michael Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin. Both are non-profit human rights litigation organizations. He was part of the small group of lawyers that first took on representation of the Guantánamo detainees in January 2001, a case that resulted in a victory in the Supreme Court in 2004. CCR established a network of over 600 pro-bono lawyers to represent Guantánamo detainees and continues that work.

He has filed criminal complaints in the courts of Germany, France and Spain against former US officials including Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld seeking the initiation of criminal prosecutions against them for the Abu Ghraib abuse and torture as well as for their actions at Guantánamo. Recently, CCR and ECCHR prepared papers to file in Switzerland against George W. Bush for torture. As a result Bush canceled his trip. A major area of Mr. Ratner’s litigation and writing is the enforcement of the prohibition on torture and murder against various dictators and generals who travel to the United States. He has sued on behalf of victims in Guatemala, East Timor, Haiti, Argentina, among other countries. He has also litigated numerous suits to prevent or stop illegal US wars ranging from Central America to Iraq. A constant in his work has been litigation against government spying and surveillance of activists.

Ratner’s books, authored or coauthored, include the soon to be published, Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in 21st-Century America (2011) and Killing Che: How the CIA Got Away with Murder (2011). Other books include International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts, Second Edition (2008); Against War with Iraq (2003); Guantánamo: What the World Should Know (2004); and The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book (2008). Ratner has taught human rights litigation at Yale and Columbia Law Schools. A past president of the National Lawyers Guild, Ratner has received many awards including Trial Lawyer of the Year, the Columbia Law School Medal of Honor (2005), the North Star Community Frederick Douglass Award, Honorary Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (2005), and The Nation Institute/Puffin Foundation Prize for Creative Citizenship (2007). In 2006, the National Law Journal named Ratner one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the United States.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also listen to the audio recording of this event there.

Michael Ratner, Talk, 24 May 2011- Video

Recorded at the James A. Little Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 24, 2011.

Michael Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin. Both are non-profit human rights litigation organizations. He was part of the small group of lawyers that first took on representation of the Guantánamo detainees in January 2001, a case that resulted in a victory in the Supreme Court in 2004. CCR established a network of over 600 pro-bono lawyers to represent Guantánamo detainees and continues that work.

He has filed criminal complaints in the courts of Germany, France and Spain against former US officials including Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld seeking the initiation of criminal prosecutions against them for the Abu Ghraib abuse and torture as well as for their actions at Guantánamo. Recently, CCR and ECCHR prepared papers to file in Switzerland against George W. Bush for torture. As a result Bush canceled his trip. A major area of Mr. Ratner’s litigation and writing is the enforcement of the prohibition on torture and murder against various dictators and generals who travel to the United States. He has sued on behalf of victims in Guatemala, East Timor, Haiti, Argentina, among other countries. He has also litigated numerous suits to prevent or stop illegal US wars ranging from Central America to Iraq. A constant in his work has been litigation against government spying and surveillance of activists.

Ratner’s books, authored or coauthored, include the soon to be published, Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in 21st-Century America (2011) and Killing Che: How the CIA Got Away with Murder (2011). Other books include International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts, Second Edition (2008); Against War with Iraq (2003); Guantánamo: What the World Should Know (2004); and The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book (2008). Ratner has taught human rights litigation at Yale and Columbia Law Schools. A past president of the National Lawyers Guild, Ratner has received many awards including Trial Lawyer of the Year, the Columbia Law School Medal of Honor (2005), the North Star Community Frederick Douglass Award, Honorary Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (2005), and The Nation Institute/Puffin Foundation Prize for Creative Citizenship (2007). In 2006, the National Law Journal named Ratner one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the United States.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also listen to the audio recording of this event there.