Justice Unbound | Nancy Gertner, Keynote
Judge Gertner will share her reflections on addressing bias and structural inequality in and out of the courtroom. She will discuss the ethical responsibility of judges to consider the racial impact of their procedures, behavior, and decisions, drawing from her efforts both while serving as a federal judge and as an advocate. Her comments will include a description of her efforts to account for racialized police practices in her assessments of prior criminal records, along with her efforts to obtain relief from some of the sentences she imposed as a federal judge. She will speak about the significance of judges calling attention to racial bias and racial inequality in the courtroom and in the justice system more broadly.
Judge Nancy Gertner (Ret.), Senior Lecturer, Harvard Law School
Introduction by Senior Associate Justice Anita Earls, Supreme Court of North Carolina