Ron Wright, Needham Yancey Gulley Professor of Criminal Law at Wake Forest University, will present “The Place(s) for Localism in Criminal Law and Enforcement” as part of the Barrock Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 13, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Eckstein Hall’s Lubar Center. A public reception will follow.
The event is complimentary, but registration is required online.
This lecture will survey topics, times and places when localism influences criminal law and enforcement. Then it will evaluate the scene, noting the levels of government best positioned to shape the variations with an eye to delivering public safety and legitimacy.
Wright is one of the nation’s leading scholars of criminal justice. He is the coauthor of two casebooks in criminal procedure and sentencing, and his empirical research concentrates on the work of criminal prosecutors. He is a board member of the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution (based at John Jay College of Criminal Justice) and has been an advisor or board member for Families Against Mandatory Minimum Sentences (FAMM), North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc., and the Winston-Salem Citizens’ Police Review Board. He previously was a white-collar prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice and is a graduate of Yale Law School.
This lecture series remembers George Barrock, L’31, and Margaret Barrock.
