Washtenaw?County Prosecutor Eli Savit will be the symposium’s featured presenter.
WMU-Cooley Law School’s annual Law Review Symposium will feature an in-depth look at qualified immunity, and how it balances the need to hold public officials accountable while at the same time providing protections from liability when officials perform their duties reasonably. Additionally, the symposium will review the recent call for police reforms following the 2020 death of George of Floyd.
WMU-Cooley criminal law Professor Anthony Flores will moderate the symposium on March 18 at 5 p.m. The featured presenter will be civil rights attorney and Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit, who also leads the city of Detroit’s criminal justice reform work.
Savit, a former law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is a nationally recognized attorney who has led public-interest lawsuits against some of the country’s toughest adversaries, such as banks, the opioid industry, slumlords, and corporate polluters. Savit is credited with leading Detroit’s legal efforts establishing that all children have a constitutional right to learn how to read and write.
“We are honored to have WMU-Cooley’s Law Review discuss the important topics of qualified immunity and police reform with one of the nation’s leading experts, who happens to be leading these efforts in Detroit,” said Flores.
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