Beyond Innocence: Using Miller Resentencing Litigation to Teach Professional Values
Location
Seminar Rooms 4&5 at the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA
Start Date
6-8-2016 3:05 PM
End Date
6-8-2016 3:30 PM
Aug 6th, 3:05 PM
Aug 6th, 3:30 PM
Beyond Innocence: Using Miller Resentencing Litigation to Teach Professional Values
Seminar Rooms 4&5 at the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, CA
Speaker Bios
Christopher Hawthorne, Clinical Professor of Law Director, Juvenile Innocence & Fair Sentencing Clinic, Loyola Law School Los Angeles Christopher Hawthorne is Clinical Professor and Co-Director of Loyola Law School's Juvenile Innocence & Fair Sentencing Clinic. Before joining the Loyola faculty, Hawthorne was a solo practitioner specializing in appellate criminal defense. Immediately after law school, he was an associate with O'Melveny & Myers, practicing in their Litigation Department's White Collar Criminal Defense Practice Group. Prior to and during his legal and teaching career, he wrote and produced motion pictures, for which he won the Writer's Guild of America Award, the Prix de Critiques at the Festival Avoriaz and the Silver Cairo at the Cairo Film Festival. One of his films was also nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Family Script. Hawthorne graduated magna cum laude from Loyola Law School, where he was a Sayre Macneil Scholar and a Note & Comment Editor on the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review.