Topic:
Exoneration by DNA (together with Keynote
Speaker Kirk Bloodsworth)
Date/Time:
Friday, August 7, 2009; 10:45-11:35am
CE Hours:
1
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Edwin Colfax
is director of state reform campaigns for The Justice Project
and has managed TJP’s reform efforts in Texas from our Austin
office since 2006. Edwin first joined TJP in 2001 to direct
the Illinois Death Penalty Education Project, a joint project
of TJP, the Center on Wrongful Convictions and the Macarthur
Justice
Center, where he established a successful track record of
reform advocacy in death penalty and criminal justice matters. |
Prior to joining
TJP Edwin earned a masters degree in philosophy from the University
of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he specialized in ethics and political
philosophy. While at the
University of Illinois he taught courses in political philosophy, writing, and
ethics, including issues in applied ethics such as the death
penalty, medical ethics and environmental ethics.
Course Description -
Exoneration by DNA (together with Keynote
Speaker Kirk Bloodsworth)
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