Guest: Lawrence Douglas — James Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought (LJST) at Amherst College and author of The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust.

Host: Mahesha Subbaraman — A high school Lincoln-Douglas debate coach in Minnesota, an Amherst College graduate, the founder/owner of Trinity Briefs, and creator of Colloquy.

Topic Discussed :  Are hate crimes enhancements unjust in the United States.

Authors Cited During Interview:   Robert Kahn,  D.D. Guttenplan,  Kent Greenawalt

Length: 35 min.

      

Guest: George Fletcher — Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School and author of With Justice For Some: Victims’ Rights in Criminal Trials.

Guest’s Personal Website

Host: Mahesha Subbaraman — A high school Lincoln-Douglas debate coach in Minnesota, an Amherst College graduate, the founder/owner of Trinity Briefs, and creator of Colloquy.

Topic Discussed:  Are hate crimes enhancements unjust in the United States?

Authors Cited During Interview:  Michael Moore & Heidi Hurd, Alon Harel

Length: 36 min.

      

Guest: James Jacobs — Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts at NYU Law School, Director of NYU’s Center for Research in Crime & Justice, and co-author (with Kimberly Potter) of Hate Crimes: Criminal Law & Identity Politics.

Host: Mahesha Subbaraman — A high school Lincoln-Douglas debate coach in Minnesota, an Amherst College graduate, the founder/owner of Trinity Briefs, and creator of Colloquy.

Topic Discussed: Are hate crimes enhancements unjust in the United States?

Length: 32 min.

       

Guest: Jack Levin — Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Northeastern University, co-director of Northeastern University’s Center on Violence and Conflict, author of The Violence of Hate: Confronting Racism, Anti-Semitism, Bigotry, and Other Forms of Bigotry, and co-author (with John McDevitt) of Hate Crimes Revisited: America’s War on Those Who Are Different.

Guest’s Personal Website: http://www.jacklevinonviolence.com/

Host: Mahesha Subbaraman — A high school Lincoln-Douglas debate coach in Minnesota, an Amherst College graduate, the founder/owner of Trinity Briefs, and creator of Colloquy.

Topic Discussed: Are hate crimes enhancements unjust in the United States?

Length: 34 min.

     

Guest: Frederick Lawrence — Dean of George Washington University Law School and author of Punishing Hate: Bias Crimes Under American Law.

Host: Mahesha Subbaraman — A high school Lincoln-Douglas debate coach in Minnesota, an Amherst College graduate, the founder/owner of Trinity Briefs, and creator of Colloquy.

Topic Discussed: Are hate crimes enhancements unjust in the United States?

Length: 26 min.