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Last fall, the College-Community Partnership for Racial Justice assembled a series of eight webinars focused on racial equity and police reform, sponsored by the Levitt Center Law and Justice Lab. Since then, the Partnership has collected and organized data from multiple surveys aimed at gauging public opinion on these issues. The results of these surveys were discussed in a virtual town hall on Feb. 11.

Crafting Criminal Justice Reform in Response to Black Lives Matter, an experiential learning practicum in the government department, is a timely offering in this evolving environment.

Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law Frank Anechiarico is gaining a different perspective this year by swapping his classroom on College Hill with one in Sweden. Anechiarico and Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Jonas Brodin, a faculty member of The Swedish Program at the Stockholm School of Economics, have exchanged roles, with Brodin teaching courses in public policy at Hamilton and Anechiarico teaching comparative policy and justice studies in Stockholm.

“It's not too late to rein in government corruption,” an essay published by Albany’s Times-Union and co-authored by Professor of Government and Law Frank Anechiarico, precedes the Finding Our Way: Rebuilding Ethics in New York State conference which he is co-hosting this Wednesday in Albany and his interview on the Capitol Pressroom (locally WRVO 91.9 FM) Tuesday at 8 p.m. about the conference.

It took just one public policy class to get Taylor Kim ’19 to reconsider her academic direction. “The whole point of my education is to give me the tools to help others,” Kim says.

Students in the two-week Field Study of Criminal Justice Reform and Innovation in Sweden course last June offered an overview of their experiences to an engaged audience of students and faculty.

U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright ’83, P’15, returned to the Hill Sunday, Nov. 12, for a question and answer session moderated by Maynard-Knox Professor of Law Frank Anechiarico.

Twelve Hamilton students visited Sweden for a two-week study trip, looking at Swedish prisons, courts and policing practice. Ryan Bloom ’18 blogged about the trip. Following is her final update about a visit to border control, a police precinct and the court.

Frank Anechiarico ’71, the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, is the editor of Legal but Corrupt: A New Perspective on Public Ethics, published last week by Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield.

Frank Anechiarico ’71, the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, was invited to address delegates to the Third Annual Conference on Governance, Crime and Justice Statistics in Merida, Mexico, June 5-10. The meeting was sponsored by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.