Speaking
Eve Hanan, PhD regularly speaks on issues in the criminal legal system and presents her scholarship at the annual conferences of the Association of American Law Schools, Law and Society Association, and the NYU Clinical Law Review Works-In-Progress, and other gatherings of criminal law scholars.
Criminalizing pregnancy outcomes. Prosecutions for miscarriages and stillbirths, with a focus on the role of stereotypes, self-blame, and police interrogation.
Sentencing policy and practice. The role of lived experience in understanding the impact and severity of incarceration as a punishment, the harms of fines, fees and conditions of probation, and interdisciplinary challenges to long prison sentences and other forms of extreme punishment.
Speech and demeanor of the accused in criminal court, including self-advocacy and expressions of remorse.
Social epistemology in criminal cases, meaning how criminal legal systems set the rules for evaluating evidence and making decisions. This often involves epistemic emotions that make certain allegations seem more or less credible, and epistemic injustice, meaning the exclusion or discrediting of the knowledge and perspectives of the accused.
Implicit bias in assessing the defendant’s demeanor, including remorse assessments in sentencing and parole decisions.
The Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel, such as the importance of independence and workload standards in public defense.
The limits of reforms that rely on discretionary decisions, like prosecutor policies and second-look sentencing.
Select Talks
2026
Misdemeanors and Manufactured Confessions, International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Montreal, Canada, June 2026
New Research and Promising Initiatives in Misdemeanor Sentencing, Summer Nevada Judges of Limited Jurisdiction Seminar, Reno, June 2026
Evidence Law: Teaching it, Writing about it, Changing it (roundtable), Law and Society Association, San Francisco, May 2026
Incorporating Lived Experiences with the Criminal Legal System in the Classroom, Association of American Law Schools (AALS) conference (moderator/discussant), New Orleans, January 2026
2025
Epistemic Closure in Pregnancy Prosecutions, Law and Society Association, Chicago, May 2025
Policing Commercial Sex Work (organizer and moderator), annual symposium for the UNLV Program on Race, Gender, and Policing, April 2025
2024
Remorse and Manufactured Confessions in Pregnancy Prosecutions, Law and Society Association, Denver, May 2024
2023
Talking Back in Court, European Criminological Society, Florence, Italy, September 2023
The Trial Penalty, Law and Society Association, Puerto Rico, May 2023
2022
Terror and Tenderness in Criminal Law, Law and Society Association’s Global Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2022
Emotional Labor in Advocacy and Legal Decision-Making (discussant), Law and Society Association’s Global Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2022
Care, the Carceral State, and the Public Defender, AALS Clinical Section Conference, May 2022
Criminal Settlement Conferences, nationally available on-demand Continuing Legal Education class for the Judicial Division of the American Bar Association, March 2022
Terror and Tenderness in Criminal Law, Georgia State University School of Law, February 2022
2021
Why Misdemeanors Matter: How Petty Offenses Trap Millions in the System, Mob Museum of Las Vegas, August 2021
Implicit Racial Bias in Criminal Cases, Continuing Legal Education for the Clark County Office of the District Attorney, Las Vegas, June 2021
2020
Prisoner Activism During Covid-19, AALS-ABA Criminal Justice Roundtable Works-in-Progress, November 2020
Militarization and the Police, National Lawyer’s Guild teach-in, October, 2020
2019
A Qualitative Turn in Sentencing: Considering How the Subjective Experience of Punishment Should Change Sentencing, Biannual LatCrit Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2019
Pretrial Justice, Continuing Legal Education class for the Nevada Office of the Attorney General, Las Vegas, June 2019
Best Practices in Juvenile Justice, Continuing Legal Education class for the Nevada Office of the Attorney General, Las Vegas, June 2019
2018
Reducing the school to prison pipeline through restorative justice: What to do and not to do in forming a partnership with a restorative justice provider, National Counsel of Juvenile and Family Court Judges National Conference on Juvenile Justice, San Diego, March 2018
2016
What Does Community Accountability Look Like: Alternative Responses to Sexual Assault, University of Baltimore, MD, March 2016
2014
Decriminalizing Violence, New York University Clinical Writer’s Workshop, New York, NY, September 2014
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