In November 2015, word spread through New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward that people were DJing and shooting a music video at the neighborhood’s Bunny Friend Park. Soon, several hundred people were packed into the one-square-block park, held in by a chain-link...
Stephen F Hanlon is a longtime public interest and civil rights trial lawyer whose practice has focused on the intersection of law and public policy. He has successfully fought for systemic change for public defenders and their clients in many states. He now sees a...
Summing it Up: My Work on Public Defender Workload Studies and Litigation to Enforce Their Conclusions Over the Last Ten Years; and The Way Forward to End the Criminal Processing System and Turn it Into a Criminal Justice System
Stephen F. Hanlon, professor of practice at Saint Louis University School of Law, discusses the national prevalence of public defenders’ excessive workloads with journalist Anderson Cooper on CBS’ 60 Minutes. Hanlon joined the SLU LAW faculty as a...
