Tea at 2 – JC Chat with Tracey Meares & Arthur Rizer

Join Justice Collaboratory founding faculty member Tracey Meares (Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, Yale Law School) and Arthur Rizer (Director, Criminal Justice & Civil Liberties; Resident Senior Fellow, R Street) as they speak about presumption of innocence and pre-trial detention.

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