About this Event
Reparations and the Right to be Known in our Criminal Legal System
Approved for 1 Nevada CLE credits
When victims of gross human rights violations and systemic injustice are also victims of false or partial narratives, reparations must include epistemic reparations. In such cases, people have a right to be known, to be witnessed, and to participate in the truth telling of what occurred.
About Jennifer Lackey
Jennifer Lackey is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law (courtesy) at Northwestern University, Founding Director of the Northwestern Pr*son Education Program, and Senior Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at the University of Johannesburg. Lackey’s research is in social epistemology with a focus on epistemological issues within the American criminal legal system. She is the author of over 60 articles and four books, including her recent Criminal Testimonial Injustice, which won the 2024 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award. She is also the editor or co-editor of six volumes, Editor-in-Chief of Episteme and Philosophical Studies, and Subject Editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Lackey was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2025, is the winner of the 2024 Humanitas Award, 2023 Horace Mann Medal, and the Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution. She was elected President of the American Philosophical Association’s Central Division from 2021–2022, was named the 2025 holder of the Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam and has received grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
About the Beecroft Lecture Series
The Beecroft Lecture Series was established in honor of the late Chris Beecroft Jr., a 1971 UNLV graduate and onetime commissioner of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Clark County District Court.
The prestigious Beecroft Lecture Series is hosted by the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution and features the nation’s foremost ADR authorities. Each year, the Saltman Center invites renowned ADR scholars to present their research and share insights on a variety of topics related to conflict resolution.
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For more information, please visit the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution website
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
William S. Boyd School of Law, Thomas & Mack Moot Court Facility, Las Vegas, United States
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