Policing, Rule of Law, and Democracy

Thursday, November 19, 2020
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
(Pacific)

Online, via Zoom: Registration Required

Speaker: 
  • Vesla Weaver ,
  • Yanilda Gonzalez

The Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Task Force (REDI) invites you to the third event in the "Critical Conversations: Race and Global Affairs" series. This panel will examine the relationship of policing and racism in liberal democracies and interrogate how police brutality erodes democracy and rule of law. The panel presentation will be followed by a Q&A. 

About the Speakers
Didi Kuo is the Associate Director for Research at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and a Senior Research Scholar at FSI.

Beatriz Magaloni is Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University, where she directs the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab.

Vesla Weaver is Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Johns Hopkins University, and a scholar of policing, surveillance, and racial inequality.

Yanilda Gonzalez is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; she works on policing, state violence, and citizenship in democracy, examining how race, class, and other forms of inequality shape these processes.
 

Please register in advance here: https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkd-yvrjsiH9VmeXKmg9-JSxq6k…