The Future of Self-Incrimination: Fifth Amendment, Confessions, and Guilty Pleas March 2-3, 2008 Sunday, March 2, 2008 -- 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, March 3, 2008 -- 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jacob Burns Moot Court Room 55 Fifth Avenue at 12th Street New York, NY The Future of Self-Incrimination will take a fresh look at the use of confessions and guilty pleas as a means to establishing a criminal defendant's guilt. Topics will include the Fifth Amendment and common law protections against coerced confessions, plea bargaining and the vanishing trial phenomenon, the relationship between pleas and sentencing, and related issues. Participants, Topics, & Schedule: Sunday, March 2 10:00: Kate Stith (Yale) -- Opening Remarks 10:30 - 12:00: Ronald Allen (Northwestern), Theorizing About Self-Incrimination Alexandra Natapoff (Loyola L.A.), Deregulating Guilt: The Information Culture of the Criminal System 1:30 - 3:00: Kent Roach (Toronto), The Consequences of Compelled Self-Incrimination in Terrorism Investigations: A Comparison of American Grand Juries and Canadian Investigative Hearings Mike Redmayne (LSE), English Warnings 3:15 - 5:15: Talia Fisher & Issachar Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv), The Confessional Penalty Daniel Richman (Columbia), Comment on The Confessional Penalty Brandon Garrett (UVA), Corporate Confessions Monday, March 3 10:00 - 11:30 Kenworthey Bilz (Northwestern), Self-Incrimination Doctrine is Dead; Long Live Self-Incrimination Doctrine Erica Hashimoto (UGA), Toward Ethical Plea Bargaining 1:00 - 3:00 Susan Klein (Texas) & Stephanos Bibas (Penn), The Sixth Amendment and Criminal Sentencing Michael Pardo (Alabama), Self-Incrimination and the Epistemology of Testimony Alex Stein (Cardozo), The Right to Silence Helps the Innocent: A Response to Critics Sponsored by Jacob Burns Institute For Advanced Legal Studies and Cardozo Law Review Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law Yeshiva University RSVP to futureofthe5th@gmail.com (PDF invitation available here)