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Featuring: CJS Chair, April Frazier Camara

Our Chair, April joins us to give an update on upcoming events. Spoiler alert: in-person events are returning this Fall!
April provides an update on all the other activities going on with the Section.

CJS Events
CJ Magazine: Racial Justice Issue

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Featuring: CJS Chair, April Frazier Camara

Our Chair, April joins us to give an update on upcoming events. Spoiler alert: in-person events are returning this Fall!
April provides an update on all the other activities going on with the Section.

CJS Events
CJ Magazine: Racial Justice Issue

Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now

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Featuring: Dr. Leslie Anne Ross, Psy. D

Dr. Ross joins us to share strategies and resources for managing vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue or empathic strain. Many attorneys in criminal law are at risk of experiencing these strains do to the nature of the work. What are the self reflective questions to ask yourself? How do set your own standards to measure your well being? Listen as Dr. Ross tells us how to do that.

Here is a list of resources the Dr. Ross shared on this episode:

• Free 2021 TEND virtual conference 9:00AM and 4:30PM EST on Friday, June 25th. 
• The National Child Traumatic Stress Network:  WWW. NCTSN.org 
• The University of Kentucky Center on Trauma and Children: www.uky.edu/CTAC  
• Dr. Rick Hanson's blog "Just One Thing":    www.rickhanson.net 
• Apps for in the moment stress reduction practices: 
  • Calm 
  • Insight Timer
  • Headspace
  • Happify
•  Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky's book "Trauma Stewardship" and her TED Talks:
   www.Traumastewardship.com 

Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now

Featuring: Dr. Leslie Anne Ross, Psy. D

Dr. Ross joins us to share strategies and resources for managing vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue or empathic strain. Many attorneys in criminal law are at risk of experiencing these strains do to the nature of the work. What are the self reflective questions to ask yourself? How do set your own standards to measure your well being? Listen as Dr. Ross tells us how to do that.

Here is a list of resources the Dr. Ross shared on this episode:

• Free 2021 TEND virtual conference 9:00AM and 4:30PM EST on Friday, June 25th. 
• The National Child Traumatic Stress Network:  WWW. NCTSN.org 
• The University of Kentucky Center on Trauma and Children: www.uky.edu/CTAC  
• Dr. Rick Hanson's blog "Just One Thing":    www.rickhanson.net 
• Apps for in the moment stress reduction practices: 
  • Calm 
  • Insight Timer
  • Headspace
  • Happify
•  Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky's book "Trauma Stewardship" and her TED Talks:
   www.Traumastewardship.com 

Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now

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Featuring: Arjun Sethi,  political rights writer, human rights lawyer, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and Vanderbilt University Law School. Arjun is also the  Co-Chair of the ABACJS Committee on Homeland Security, Terrorism & Treatment of Enemy Combatants.

Arjun breaks down the recent actions taken on the federal level to mitigate hate crime, specifically the rise in Asian American hate crime due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Arjun walks us through both AG Garland's memo to the DOJ and the recently signed COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act. We discuss it's potential impact as well as it's reception within the criminal justice field.

Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now

Featuring: Arjun Sethi,  political rights writer, human rights lawyer, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and Vanderbilt University Law School. Arjun is also the  Co-Chair of the ABACJS Committee on Homeland Security, Terrorism & Treatment of Enemy Combatants.

Arjun breaks down the recent actions taken on the federal level to mitigate hate crime, specifically the rise in Asian American hate crime due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Arjun walks us through both AG Garland's memo to the DOJ and the recently signed COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act. We discuss it's potential impact as well as it's reception within the criminal justice field.

Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now

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Featuring:
William Merriweather, 2L New England Law
Cynthia Orr, Managing Partner with Goldstein & Orr
Rory Little, Joseph W. Cotchett, Jr., Professor of Law at U.C. Hastings College of the Law
Avis Sanders, Director of the Externship Program American University Washington College of Law

We are joined by four guests to share their best advice for securing an internship. We discuss how to leverage your network, how to secure a judicial externship, how to stand out in the application and interview process and more!

Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now

Featuring:
William Merriweather, 2L New England Law
Cynthia Orr, Managing Partner with Goldstein & Orr
Rory Little, Joseph W. Cotchett, Jr., Professor of Law at U.C. Hastings College of the Law
Avis Sanders, Director of the Externship Program American University Washington College of Law

We are joined by four guests to share their best advice for securing an internship. We discuss how to leverage your network, how to secure a judicial externship, how to stand out in the application and interview process and more!

Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now

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Featuring: Olinda Moyd, adjunct Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law.

Olinda joins us to discuss potential reform for the parole system. We discuss the potential impact of implicit bias training, increased diversity of parole boards, reducing supervision periods, providing better resources and more.

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Featuring: Olinda Moyd, adjunct Professor of Law at Howard University School of Law.

Olinda joins us to discuss potential reform for the parole system. We discuss the potential impact of implicit bias training, increased diversity of parole boards, reducing supervision periods, providing better resources and more.

Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now