Friday, May 7, 2021 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMOnlineJoin us for a book talk with the author of "Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System" How can we dismantle and abolish the punishment bureaucracy and build something beautiful in its place? Speaker: Alec Karakatsanis, Founder and Executive Director of Civil Rights Corps and author of Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System (New York: The New Press, 2019). Moderator: Lara J. Nettelfield, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Human Rights, Institute for the Study of Human Rights and Department of Political Science For Zoom login information, please register here: http://bit.ly/usual-cruelty Click below to see the event on the Columbia events calendar.Event link