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Commencement 2019 Bryan Stevenson Address, Clip 1
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Bryan Stevenson: Lawyer, Social Justice Activist, Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative
No full textBryan Stevenson is a lawyer, social justice activist, and founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, which seeks to eliminate injustice and mass incarceration. In 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative opened the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, which documents slavery, lynching and discrimination in the United States.
Stevenson and his staff members have won relief or release for more than 125 prisoners on death row. Stevenson also is a law professor at New York University and author of Just Mercy. Nobel Peace Prize recipient Desmond Tutu has called him America\u27s young Nelson Mandela. Stevenson has received a MacArthur Foundation genius grant and was named one of Time\u27s 100 Most Influential People in 2015
2015 Commencement Address: Bryan A. Stevenson
No full textBryan A. Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery, Alabama, will receive an honorary degree from the College of the Holy Cross and address this year’s graduates during the College’s Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 22 at 10:30 a.m. ET on the campus. Stevenson is the widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults. Stevenson has successfully argued several cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, and recently won an historic ruling banning mandatory life-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger as unconstitutional. For his work fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system, Stevenson has received numerous awards including the American Bar Association\u27s Wisdom Award for Public Service, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award Prize, the ACLU National Medal of Liberty, the National Public Interest Lawyer of the Year Award, the Gruber Prize for International Justice, and the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award. Author of the acclaimed and bestselling book, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Spiegel and Grau/Random House, 2014), Stevenson is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Just Mercy was named by Time Magazine one of the 10 best books of nonfiction for 2014, and has been awarded several honors including the 2015 NAACP Image Award for outstanding nonfiction literary work. Stevenson’s 2012 TED talk, “We need to talk about an injustice,” has received more than two million views.https://crossworks.holycross.edu/commence_address/1001/thumbnail.jp
Commencement 2019 Bryan Stevenson | Honorary Degree Recipient
No full textAt RISD’s Commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 1, keynote speaker Bryan Stevenson urged the Class of 2019 to “resist the politics of fear and anger” with the hope and power their creativity brings to the world. “When we do this we begin to create a different culture, a new kind of future,” the Equal Justice Initiative founder pointed out, calling on RISD’s newest alumni to invest their talents in creating more just societies. In addressing the 486 bachelor’s degree and 214 master’s degree recipients at the Rhode Island Convention Center, the acclaimed public interest lawyer emphasized the importance of “getting proximate” to individuals and communities in need. By listening to and learning from marginalized and oppressed people, Stevenson said, artists and designers are uniquely positioned to “at a bare minimum… affirm their humanity—and this can change the world. I believe in liberation—that there\u27s something better waiting for us, he continued. Stay hopeful. Our hope is our superpower
The Ohio State University Commencement Address by Bryan Stevenson, Spring 2023
No full textCommencement address given by Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative, to the Spring 2023 graduating class of The Ohio State University, Ohio Stadium, Columbus, Ohio, May 7, 2023
Bryan Stevenson (2009)
No full textSanta Clara University School of Law is proud to announce the 2009 Law Commencement Speaker, Bryan A. Stevenson. He will receive an honorary degree from Santa Clara University at its School of Law commencement on Saturday, May 23, 2009, at Santa Clara, California.
Mr. Stevenson is a nationally recognized civil rights authority and serves as the Executive Director of an anti-death penalty advocacy organization, the Equal Justice Initiative, which he founded in 1989. This private, nonprofit law organization litigates on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, and people wrongly convicted or denied effective representation. Stevenson has been representing capital defendants and death row prisoners since 1985, following his graduation from law school, first with the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, and then with the Equal Justice Initiative. In 1998, Mr. Stevenson joined the faculty of law at New York University teaching courses in criminal law and procedure and effective advocacy.
Mr. Stevenson earned his law degree and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University in 1985. He is a distinguished scholar of book chapters and law review articles on how America imposes the death penalty and procedural and substantive fairness in criminal trials and procedure.
Mr. Stevenson has frequently been recognized for his work protecting individuals human and civil rights, including the receipt of the inaugural Alexander Law Prize awarded by Santa Clara University School of Law in 2008, the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship Award Prize, the 1989 Reebok Human Rights Award, the 1991 ACLU National Medal of Liberty, and, in 2000, the Olaf Palme Prize in Stockholm, Sweden for international human rights. In 2004, Mr. Stevenson received the Award for Courageous Advocacy from the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Lawyer for the People Award from the National Lawyers Guild.https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/commencementspeeches/1004/thumbnail.jp
Social Justice Lawyering: Confronting Power, Racial and Economic Injustice and Hopelessness Within the Law
No full textBryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, discussed the dynamics of social justice lawyering, mass incarceration, racial and economic history, and the tactics, strategies and tools for using the law to advance reform.https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/sibley_lectures/1008/thumbnail.jp
2017 Common Book Selection: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
No full textIn his memoir, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Stevenson tells the stories of those he has defended when they did not have adequate defense. Stevenson is an attorney and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, a private, nonprofit organization that challenges poverty and racial injustice, advocates for equal treatment in the criminal justice system, and creates hope for marginalized communities
We encourage you to watch this short video of Bryan Stevenson to give you some insight into his perspective and of the conversations this book will include.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/commonbook/1005/thumbnail.jp
« La narration et les récits sont des outils essentiels »
No full textEntretien avec Bryan Stevenson, président de The Equal Justice Initiative, professeur de justice pénale à la New York University, New York/ Montgomery, Alabama, réalisé par Marie Poinsot
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Oral History Interview with Coke R. Stevenson, May 11, 1969
No full textInterviews with Coke R. Stevenson concerning his experiences as a member (1929-1939) and Speaker (1933-1937) of the Texas House of Representatives, as Lieutenant Governor (1939-1941), and as Governor (1941-1947). The interview also includes his observations concerning William Jennings Bryan, Miriam Ferguson, James Allred, and Franklin Roosevelt. Appendix includes transcript of September 11, 1970 speech by Coke Stevenson at the Texas Woman's University campus before the Daughters of the American Revolution
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