Lunch and Learn: Defending Women and Gender Diverse Clients

Join us for the Lunch and Learn: Defending Women and Gender Diverse Clients on April 22nd from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET, when Sandra Babcock and Bahar Mirhosseni will address questions from the 2021 webinar, Working with Female Clients, facilitate discussion around recent updates from research and Supreme Court decisions, and provide opportunities for deeper insights on effective advocacy approaches including narrative construction. Participants are encouraged to be fully engaged during the discussion, as collective input fosters the best outcomes and connections. To register, click here. 

Lunch and Learn sessions are designed to give participants the opportunity to revisit previous sessions to refresh their knowledge, catch up on what they missed, and take a deeper dive into topics that are difficult to cover in just one 90-minute session. Participants will be asked to complete an assignment ahead of each session to establish a knowledge baseline. All assignments will be available on Perusall, a community learning platform where members of the group can respond to the materials and each other with comments and questions. Registrants will receive Perusall login information and instructions for accessing materials by the registration deadline. 

Register for this event by April 15th.

Email Allison Bishop at [email protected] with any questions

Facilitators

Sandra Babcock

Sandra Babcock is a Clinical Professor at Cornell Law School, where she is the Faculty Director and founder of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide (CCDPW). Over the last thirty years she has helped defend hundreds of men and women facing execution around the world. She began her career as a staff attorney at the Texas Resource Center, where she defended persons facing execution in post- conviction proceedings. She then moved to Minnesota, where she was a public defender for five years. After starting her own law firm, she became the founding director of the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program, a project funded by the Government of Mexico to defend Mexican nationals facing the death penalty in the U.S. She also represented Mexico before the International Court of Justice in Avena and Other Mexican Nationals. In 2006, she became a Clinical Professor at Northwestern Law School, where she spearheaded a ten-year project in Malawi that ultimately resulted in the release of over 250 prisoners, 150 of whom were formerly sentenced to death. She moved to Cornell Law in 2014, where she founded the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide. In 2018, together with her colleagues at CDPW, she launched the Alice Project, a global movement to end extreme sentencing of women and gender non-conforming individuals. Her clinic currently represents women facing the death penalty in the United States and Tanzania. She has authored numerous articles, book chapters and reports on the application of the death penalty. In September 2021, she received the American Bar Association’s John Paul Stevens Guiding Hand of Counsel Award, given to one capital defender every two years whose work has improved the legal representation of persons facing the death penalty and contributed to systemic reform.

Bahar Mirhosseni

Bahar Mirhosseni is a human rights and criminal defense lawyer, a former public defender, and Senior Legal Fellow/Director of Legal Advocacy at the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide. She has collaborated with a range of human rights organizations including the Georgia Capital Defender Office, the Southern Africa Litigation Centre, and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. She serves on the Racial Justice Committee of the National Association for Public Defense.

As Program Director, at The International Legal Foundation, she partnered with lawyers in the MENA region on access to justice, human rights, and high-quality public defense.
She has mentored/trained hundreds of law students and lawyers in Palestine, Tunisia, Afghanistan and the United States. She is a Senior Advocate with The Color ofExcellence.