How Can You Defend Those People? And Other Questions of Humanity, Humility, and the Humanities

Venue: The David P Derham Lecture Theatre, The David P. Derham Theatre

Presenters: Dean Strang

Every criminal defence lawyer hears, often repeatedly, the question, “How can you defend those people?” It’s an important question, not just for lawyers but for every citizen of societies that claim to value liberty. Dean Strang, (defence attorney for Steven Avery in the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer), will explore some overlooked considerations that the question raises in the hope of aiding lawyers and other citizens alike come to their own answer. He will connect that common question and its answers to our individual and collective humanity, to humility and its relation to liberty, and to the ways in which legal education might help to form citizen-lawyers best equipped to answer that question.

Dean Strang is a noted US criminal defence lawyer. He practices in Madison, Wisconsin, as a shareholder in StrangBradley, LLC. He was Wisconsin’s first Federal Defender and has argued in the United States Supreme Court, five federal circuits, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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