Tracey L. Meares of Yale Law School will be participating in the Emanuel Emroch Lecture Series on Thursday, Feb. 7, at the University of Richmond School of Law. She will be discussing her theories of community in popular legitimacy and the social psychology of how people come to conclusions about the fairness of police, prosecutors, and judges.
Professor Meares is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor and a Founding Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. She is a nationally-recognized expert on policing in urban communities and a scholar of criminal procedure and policy. In 2014, President Obama appointed Professor Meares to his Task Force on 21st Century Policing, and she has served on multiple federal government committees.
Learn more and register for the event here.