DIRECTIONS
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BOMBSHELL OR BABY STEP?
COST and REGISTRATION
The Ramifications of Miller v. Alabama
for Sentencing Law and
Juvenile Crime Policy
The symposium is free and open to the public. Registration
is not required but is requested by Friday, March 1, 2013. To
register, please contact:
Missouri Law Review
University of Missouri School of Law
15 Hulston Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
umclawrev@missouri.edu
law.missouri.edu/lawreview
CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION CREDIT
This symposium is approved for 7.2 hours of mandatory
continuing legal education credit in the state of Missouri.
ABOUT THE MISSOURI LAW REVIEW
Founded in 1936, the Missouri Law Review is one of the oldest
legal journals published west of the Mississippi River. The law
review has produced 77 volumes containing four issues each
since the publication’s inception. The 2012-2013 law review is
administered by 52 students.
The University of Missouri will publish the papers featured in
this year’s symposium in volume 78, issue 3 of the Missouri Law
Review in the summer of 2013. Domestic subscriptions of this
journal are available for $40; international subscriptions are
$45. To view recent issues or request a subscription, please visit
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University of Missouri
School of Law
John K. Hulston Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
Each year, law review members partner with faculty sponsors
from the University of Missouri School of Law to host a
symposium highlighting prominent legal issues and to discuss
progressive solutions to complex policy challenges.
2013 Missouri Law Review Symposium
March 8, 2013
2013 Missouri Law Review Symposium
Bombshell or Baby Step?
The Ramifications of Miller v. Alabama for Sentencing Law and Juvenile Crime Policy
Lthe United States held that the Eighth Amendment
ast year in Miller v. Alabama, the Supreme Court of
prohibits mandatory sentences of life without parole for
juveniles convicted of homicide.
This year’s Missouri Law Review Symposium will focus
on constitutional, practical and policy matters, regarding
juveniles and sentencing more generally, that now
challenge courts, legislatures and attorneys in the opinion’s
wake. On the constitutional front, in what ways are adult
offenders who are subject to mandatory sentencing
schemes asking lower courts to extend Miller, and how
are those courts replying? The Miller opinion extends
the Court’s “death is different” doctrine to mandatory
life-without-parole sentences for juveniles: should that
doctrine, requiring individualized sentencing, apply in
other contexts? How are state legislatures and Congress
responding – and how should they respond – in designing
sentencing procedures for juvenile homicide offenders?
What special challenges will attorneys face when
representing a juvenile in a life-without-parole sentencing
trial? Morally, to what extent, if any, do recent discoveries
in developmental psychology and neuroscience shed
normative light for courts and legislatures on juvenile
culpability?
Judge Nancy Gertner, Professor of Practice at Harvard Law
School, will deliver the keynote address. She will be joined
by eminent attorneys, inside and outside the academy, to
explore these and other important questions regarding
criminal sentencing in general and juvenile sentencing in
particular.
8:30 am
Welcome
8:45 am Panel: Open Constitutional Questions
Moderator: Frank O. Bowman III,
University of Missouri School of Law
Presenters:
Douglas A. Berman
The Ohio State University
Moritz College of Law
William W. Berry III
University of Mississippi
School of Law
1:30 pm Panel: Litigation and Legislative Matters
Moderator: Rodney J. Uphoff,
University of Missouri School of Law
Presenters:
Bradley Bridge
Defender Association of Philadelphia
Sarah Jane Forman
University of Detroit Mercy
School of Law
Marsha Levick
Juvenile Law Center (Philadelphia)
Frank O. Bowman III
University of Missouri School of Law
Mae C. Quinn
Washington University School of Law
Michael O’Hear
Marquette University Law School
10:45 am Earl F. Nelson Lecture
3:15 pm Panel: Moral and Policy Considerations for
Juvenile Justice
Moderator: Paul J. Litton,
University of Missouri School of Law
Presenters:
“Miller and the Eighth
Amendment: Major Change
or Sui Generis?”
Emily Buss
University of Chicago Law School
Judge Nancy Gertner (ret.)
Professor of Practice
Harvard Law School
Clark Peters
University of Missouri School of
Social Work
Mary Price
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
(Washington, D.C.)