"Much Respect: Toward
a Hip-Hop Theory of Punishment"
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Professor
Paul Butler
George Washington University Law School
April
12, 2004
4:00-5:30pm
Emerson Alumni Hall
Reception:
2:00-3:00pm
Faculty Lounge, Levin College of Law
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About
Paul Butler
Professor
Butler joined the George Washington University Law faculty
in 1993. He teaches and writes in the areas of criminal
law, civil rights, and jurisprudence. His scholarship has
been published in the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law
Review, and the UCLA Law Review. Professor Butler is one
of the 50 most cited law professors who entered teaching
since 1992. His scholarship has been the subject of numerous
newspaper and magazine articles and television programs,
including in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and
on 60 Minutes, Nightline, 20/20, and the ABC, CBS, and NBC
Evening News.
Professor
Butler is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School
and is a member of the New York and the District of Columbia
bars. He clerked for the Hon. Mary Johnson Lowe in the United
States District Court in New York, and then joined the law
firm of Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., where
he specialized in white-collar criminal defense and civil
litigation. Following private practice, Professor Butler
served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department
of Justice, where his specialty was public corruption. While
at the Department of Justice, Professor Butler also served
as a special assistant U.S. attorney, prosecuting drug and
gun cases.
Selected
Publications
"By
Any Means Necessary: Using Violence and Subversion to Change
Unjust Law." 50 UCLA Law Review 721-773 (2003).
"Affirmative
Action and the Criminal Law." 68 University of Colorado
Law Review 841 (1997).
"Racially Based Jury Nullification:
Black Power in the Criminal Justice System." 105 Yale
Law Journal 677-725 (1995).
