Paul Butler

Georgetown law professor Paul Butler is the author of Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice and Chokehold: Policing Black Men. A specialist in criminal law and race relations, Butler is a Soros Justice Fellow, a regular commentator for MSNBC, and he writes regularly for The Washington Post and other national news outlets. He is a former federal prosecutor.

Live Online Event
Wednesday, September 9, 12:00 PM (HST)

Special guests: Ken Lawson, co-director, Hawai‘i Innocence Project; Robert Perkinson, author of Texas Tough: Rise of America’s Prison Empire; Kamaile Maldonado, Public Policy Advocate, Office of Hawaiian Affairs

Presented by: College of Social Sciences, Hawai‘i Community Foundation, and William S. Richardson School of Law.

Co-Sponsors: UH Public Policy Center, Hawai‘i ACLU, the Pōpolo Project, UH Alumni Relations.

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