Killing Justice LA Book Launch
Mon, Sep 09
|Stories Books & Cafe
Time & Location
Sep 09, 2024, 7:00 PM
Stories Books & Cafe, 1716 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026, USA
About the event
Join local author Kelly Giles, who will be interviewed by USC Law Professor Jody Armour, for the release of his new memoir, Killing Justice: A Lawyer Lands in Prison and Finds His Freedom.
Jody David Armour is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. A widely published scholar and popular lecturer, he studies the intersection of race, law, morality, psychology, politics, ordinary language philosophy, and the performing arts. His latest book, N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law (Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020) looks at America’s criminal justice system – among the deadliest and most racist in the world – through deeply interdisciplinary lenses. His latest free speech article is titled "Law, Language, and Politics," 22 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1073 (2020). Armour is a Soros Justice Senior Fellow of The Open Society Institute’s Center on Crime, Communities & Culture, and he is on the Board of Directors for LEAP (Law Enforcement Action Partnership), an international 501(c)(3) non-profit of police, prosecutors, judges, corrections officials, and other law enforcement officials advocating for criminal justice reform.