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Aging, Trials, Accountability, and Justice – International and Domestic

February 8, 2021 / Hadar Aviram
I’ve just attended the first day of a terrific workshop on the aesthetics and visualities of prosecuting aging and frail defendants. The papers are fascinating and take on not only

Grilled Eggplants Stuffed with Impossible Meat and Pomegranate

December 24, 2020 / Hadar Aviram
For today’s Christmas Eve brunch, we made a version of Oz Telem’s new recipe. I think ours benefits from the fact that the eggplants were grilled, and from some little

CDCR/CCHCS Issue Memorandum to Staff Re Testing Compliance–Nine Months Too Late

December 22, 2020 / Hadar Aviram
Here it is – only nine months too late: Mandatory Employee Testing and Non Compliance Accountability 12-21-20 by hadaraviram on Scribd

Full Steam Ahead in the Wrong Direction

December 11, 2020 / Hadar Aviram
You may recall that the Court of Appeal’s population reduction order in Von Staich did not specify the method by which CDCR should go about population reduction (though it did

SAVE THE DATE: California Correctional Crisis: Mass Incarceration, Healthcare, and the COVID-19 Outbreak

November 24, 2020 / Hadar Aviram
Dear Friends, Three UC Hastings journals are coming together to organize an important symposium on incarceration and healthcare, focusing on the COVID-19 prison crisis. We are excited to invite you–details
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Shelter In Place, Ch. 6

November 1, 2020 / Hadar Aviram
6 Caleb Caleb felt a bit silly amidst the most elegant crowd he had ever seen. He had arrived twenty minutes early and the place was already packed; to make

CDCR, Don’t Play Tetris with Human Lives

October 22, 2020 / Hadar Aviram
In her 2018 book Building the Prison State, my colleague Heather Schoenfeld provides a retrospective of the incarceration explosion in Florida. The root of the problem–the situation that facilitated the

Blackface Scandals Are the Logical Conclusion of the Performative Goodness Race

September 6, 2020 / Hadar Aviram
As if we don’t have bigger tofu slices to fry–with 57 days till the election, we absolutely do–the academic/activist left is atwitter (pun intended) about yet another blackface scandal. This

Brief on Behalf of Amici Curiae Filed in Von Staich, and an Extra Helping of Cruelty

August 25, 2020 / Hadar Aviram
Today I submitted an Amicus Curiae brief on behalf of the ACLU of Northern California and eighteen criminal justice scholars in In re Von Staich, another San Quentin-related COVID-19 relief

Why I’m Leery of Racial Confessionals

August 2, 2020 / Hadar Aviram
“Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions,