For another thoughtful approach to reducing violent crime without doubling down on the punitive policies of the past, please read David Alan Sklansky essay in our Brennan Center #punitiveexcess essay series brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…

Thoughtful editorial from The New York Times acknowledging that we need to focusing on making our city safer without reverting to overpolicing of Black and Latino communities nytimes.com/2022/01/24/opi…

More than a year after the Jan. 6 attack on the nation’s Capital, investigations by the Dept. of Justice and Congress’s Select Committee are ongoing. In a Q&A for Legal Aggregate, SLS's criminal justice expert David Alan Sklansky discusses the investigations. stanford.io/3Ataj6A

Happy New Year! We are excited to share a list of books that we’d love to have reviewed for Journal of Public Affairs Education this year. If you are interested in reviewing these books or any others, please reach out to our Book Review Co-Editors, Rachel Emas and @SDolamore.

Join us 1/18 for our next webinar “A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crime and What is Means for Justice”, presented by Stanford Law School professor David Alan Sklansky - David Alan Sklansky. For more info & to reg: buff.ly/3f1hVTT #CriminalJustice #SocialJustice #Webinar

I'm looking forward to this discussion of Jisha Menon's brilliant book.

Join us 1/18 for our next webinar “A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crime and What is Means for Justice”, presented by Stanford Law School professor David Alan Sklansky - David Alan Sklansky. For more info & to reg: buff.ly/3f1hVTT #CriminalJustice #SocialJustice #Webinar

A look at Professor David Alan Sklansky latest scholarship and new book 'A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice' in the fall issue of #StanfordLawMag stanford.io/3reCoug

I'll be talking about violent crime, police violence, and my Harvard University Press book, 'A Pattern of Violence,' at an online public event hosted by New York State Library on 1/18 from 2 to 3 pm EST. Free registration required. Join us! nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/8472953

This is a devastating loss to UC Berkeley Law and to the countless students, colleagues, and collaborators who, like me, crossed paths with Steve Sugarman and gained a brilliant role model and a precious, lifelong friend. May his memory be a blessing to his family and to all of us.

Just finished David Alan Sklansky's A Pattern of Violence and I highly recommend it. Adds much-needed history, precision and depth to a topic ('violence') where that has long been lacking. hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…

My new reshuffled deck. Harvard University Press

Now online: my review of David Alan Sklansky's terrific new book on the law's struggle to define & respond to violence.

A PATTERN OF VIOLENCE: HOW THE LAW CLASSIFIES CRIMES AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR JUSTICE
(from Harvard University Press)

Don't miss Benjamin Levin's (@ColoLaw) review of David Alan Sklansky's (@StanfordLaw) latest book.
clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/a-patter…

I'm very grateful to Benjamin Levin for his sharp, thoughtful (and generous) review of my book, A Pattern of Violence. Harvard University Press Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/a-patter…

A statement from my colleague Robert Weisberg and me about public defenders:

Phil Heymann taught me criminal law and is part of the reason I became a prosecutor. When I started teaching criminal law myself, I tried to emulate his decency, evenhandedness, and rigor. I am very sorry to learn of his death.

I'll be talking w/ my brilliant friend, UCLA School of Law Prof Devon Carbado, about mass incarceration, police, and my book, 'A Pattern of Violence,' at an online event hosted by Chevalier's Books, next Tuesday, 12/7, at 6pm PST. Harvard University Press chevaliersbooks.com/decemeber-7-da…

Join our book talk Dec 7 with esteemed law professors David Alan Sklansky & Devon Carbado! A PATTERN OF VIOLENCE reveals how inconsistent ideas about violence, enshrined in law, plague our criminal justice system--from mass incarceration to police brutality. bit.ly/3dghfsP

📺ICYMI - Stanford Law School Prof. David Alan Sklansky (@d_a_sklansky) speaks to Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke Law's Novel Justice about his latest work, 'A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice.' Hosted by Duke Law Prof. Brandon Garrett. youtube.com/watch?v=EAmdvo…