Award-winning Lecturer and Writer Emily Bazelon to Deliver 2022 Soll Lecture at University of Arizona Law
Emily Bazelon, writer at the New York Times Magazine, the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School, co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest and author, will deliver the 15th annual Darrow K. Soll Memorial Criminal Law and Justice Lecture at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law on Wednesday, April 13, 2022.
Bazelon will discuss her 2019 book, “Charged,” and explain how the power of prosecutors has increased in past decades, why prosecutors have played an outsized role in rising incarceration rates, and how voters have begun to seize the reins to change that.
When: Wednesday, April 13, 2022, at 12 p.m.
Where: The Darrow K. Soll Memorial Criminal Law and Justice Lecture will be delivered live via Zoom. Room 168 has been reserved so that registrants can watch in a group setting, if desired.
Who may attend: The lecture is free and open to the public.
About Emily Bazelon
Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine, the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School, and a co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest, a popular weekly podcast. She is the author of two national bestsellers published by Penguin Random House: "Charged," about the power of prosecutors, and "Sticks and Stones," about how to prevent bullying. "Charged" won the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the current interest category and the Silver Gavel Book Award from the American Bar Association.
Before joining the Times Magazine, Bazelon was a writer and editor for nine years at Slate. She is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.
About the Soll Lecture
Friends and colleagues of the late Darrow K. Soll established this lecture as a memorial to his life's work by creating an endowment at the James E. Rogers College of Law. Through the efforts of Jenifer Simmon Woods ('99) and other generous donors, Arizona Law students and members of the larger community will hear from practitioners, scholars, and other distinguished speakers about a variety of criminal justice topics.