Join the NSBA as we welcome Jason D. Williamson, Executive Director for the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at New York University School of Law, for a program celebrating the 60-year anniversary of the right to counsel.
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Nebraska MCLE #257210. 1.0 CLE Ethics Hours. (OnDemand credit)
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Join the NSBA as we welcome Jason D. Williamson, Executive Director for the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at New York University School of Law, for a program celebrating the 60-year anniversary of the right to counsel.
The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Gideon v. Wainwright guaranteed the right to legal counsel for criminal defendants in both state and federal courts. Sixty years later, has the promise of Gideon been sustained? This session will review and highlight efforts to challenge the ongoing deficiencies in indigent defense services across the country, the introduction and implications of new national workload standards for attorneys representing indigent defendants, and the role of the private bar in the larger movement for public defense reform.
Jason D. Williamson, Executive Director for the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, New York University School of LawJason D. Williamson has served as Executive Director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law since June 2021. Prior to joining the Center, he served as the deputy director of the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project, where he began working as a staff attorney in January 2011. At the ACLU, he focused primarily on Fourth Amendment, police practices, and public defense reform litigation. Prior to joining the ACLU, Jason worked as a litigation associate at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York, and served as a law clerk for Judge Sterling Johnson, Jr. in the Eastern District of New York from 2007-2008. He began his legal career in New Orleans in the months following Hurricane Katrina, first as a staff attorney for the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, and later as a staff attorney and founding member of Juvenile Regional Services (now called the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights), which provides legal representation for indigent youth in Orleans Parish Juvenile Court. Jason also serves as an adjunct clinical professor at New York University School of Law, where he teaches the Racial Justice and Abolition Clinic. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Harvard University in 1998, his Master’s Degree in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and his JD from NYU Law in 2006.___________________________________________________________________________
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