The Brennan Center for Justice hosted Jacob Hacker to discuss his new book, Winner-Take-All Politics. Watch the video.

The Brennan Center for Justice invited Clarence Jones to speak about his new book, Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation.

Judge Richard A. Posner, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, will deliver a lecture on the history of the theory of judicial self-restraint as articulated primarily by Thayer, Holmes, Brandeis, Frankfurter, and Bickel (the "Thayerians"). He will discuss and evaluate the various grounds on which the theory (or tradition) has been defended, describe its virtual abandonment by the academy and rejection by both wings of the U.S. Supreme Court, and examine the reasons for its rise and fall.

The Brennan Center for Justice hosts the 8th Annual Community Oriented Defender (COD) Network Conference at NYU Law School in New York City. During the two days, defenders, social workers, and researchers discuss ways to better serve their clients, participate in policy advocacy and systemic reform, and build the capacity of their organizations.