The 2023 Edward Ross Lecture in Litigation We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest Until It Comes: Race, Wrongful Conviction and Justice in America

with Christina Swarns

March 14, 2023
12:00 PM– 1:00 PM
Duane Morris LLP Moot Court Room 

About The Event

Temple University Beasley School of Law invites you to the 2023 Edward Ross Lecture in Litigation, featuring remarks by Christina Swarns, Executive Director of the Innocence Project, titled We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest Until It Comes: Race, Wrongful Conviction and Justice in America. 

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about Christina Swarns

Christina Swarns

Executive Director, Innocence Project

Christina Swarns is the Executive Director of the Innocence Project, a position she has held since 2020.  Swarns has dedicated her entire professional career to criminal justice reform. She served as the president and attorney-in-charge of the Office of the Appellate Defender, Inc., one of New York City’s oldest institutional providers of indigent appellate defense representation. Before that, Swarns spent more than a decade at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), where she served as LDF’s litigation director and criminal justice project director. 

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