Book Talk: Prof. Adam Kolber's Punishment for the Greater Good
About the Program and Discussion
In his new book, Punishment for the Greater Good (Oxford University Press, June 2024), Professor Adam J. Kolber tackles the most fundamental question related to criminal punishment: What, if anything, justifies the suffering and deprivation of liberty associated with incarceration and other forms of punishment? Kolber defends a “consequentialist” approach that focuses on deterring, incapacitating, and rehabilitating offenders rather than the more common “retributivist” approach that focuses on giving people the suffering they deserve for past wrongdoing. Our panel of commentators will feature distinguished philosophers and legal scholars.
View a quick teaser about the book on YouTube.
Moderator
Alice Ristroph, Les Fagen Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Discussants
Chad Flanders, Professor of Law and (by courtesy) Philosophy, St. Louis University School of Law
Nathan Hanna, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Drexel University
Kierstan Kaushal-Carter, Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow in Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Benjamin Vilhauer, Professor, Department of Philosophy, CUNY City College and Graduate Center
Sponsored by the Center for Criminal Justice.
Please RSVP by Monday, Oct. 14.
About the Author
Adam J. Kolber is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. He writes and teaches in the areas of criminal law, jurisprudence, bioethics, and neurolaw. In 2005, he created the Neuroethics & Law Blog and, in 2006, taught the first law school course devoted to law and neuroscience. He has been a visiting fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values and at NYU Law School's Center for Research in Crime and Justice. Professor Kolber began his academic career on the faculty of the University of San Diego School of Law. Before that, he clerked for the Hon. Chester J. Straub of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced law with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. Professor Kolber received his A.B., summa cum laude, from Princeton University and graduated Order of the Coif from Stanford Law School.
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