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Professor of law

Expertise: prison reform, Constitutional law of incarceration, civil litigation, torts

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Margo Schlanger
Margo Schlanger
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Schlanger is a leading authority on prisons and inmate litigation. In addition to her teaching and research in this field, she is currently a member of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons. She served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and was an attorney in the Special Litigation Section of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, where her practice focused on police and prison civil rights issues.

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E-mail:mschlanger@wulaw.wustl.edu

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Crucial clearinghouse

Elusive civil rights court records now just a click away with new online database (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/8153.html)

Nov. 9, 2006 --
Thurgood Marshall (center) with George E.C. Hayes and James Nabri celebrating the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.
Photo courtesy Library of Congress.
Thurgood Marshall (center) with George E.C. Hayes and James Nabri celebrating the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.
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For the past 50-plus years, civil rights litigation has greatly affected Americans' lives. It has secured our Constitutional rights, and it has dramatically improved many of our public and private institutions. Information about these cases, however, has been exceedingly difficult to locate. Until now. More... (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/8153.html)


Solving America's prison problems

National Prison Commission to focus on corrections officers and conditions that compromise safety behind bars: witnesses will testify at the School of Law Nov. 1-2 (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/6025.html)

Oct. 24, 2005 --
The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons, a year-long national effort to explore the most serious problems behind bars in America today and how to solve them, will hold its third public hearing from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 1-2 in Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 310. The hearing, hosted by the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, will focus on corrections officers - a vast, yet poorly understood workforce that shoulders tremendous responsibilities, often without adequate leadership, training, or resources. Officers, administrators, labor leaders, former prisoners, and other witnesses will describe pivotal changes in the workforce and the job and conditions that jeopardize the health and safety of both officers and prisoners.


'Crime, Prison and the Death Penalty'

Renowned capital punishment opponent Stephen B. Bright to deliver Assembly Series and School of Law joint lecture (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/6022.html)

Oct. 24, 2005 -- Nationally recognized attorney and human rights advocate Stephen Bright will discuss his views on the death penalty and the current state of the U.S. prison system in a talk entitled, "Crime, Prison, and the Death Penalty: The Influence of Race and Poverty." The talk, part of Washington University's Assembly Series and the School of Law's "Access to Justice" series, will be held at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 2 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom, Anheuser-Busch Hall.



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California prisons uneasily prepare to desegregate cells
Wall Street Journal

March 22, 2006 -- Prison culture dictates that inmates stick with their own kind, associating almost exclusively with other inmates from their race or ethnic group, defending them to the death if necessary. And that is why prison officials, inmates and scholars are uneasy as California's prison system prepares to introduce a formal policy desegregating its double cells, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that prisoners may not be routinely segregated in cells by race. The ruling has ramifications for state correctional systems nationwide.
WUSTL law professor Margo Schlanger, who specializes in incarceration litigation, comments.


Black, Hispanic Inmates Separated in L.A.
Associated Press

Feb. 13, 2006 -- Los Angeles County jail officials separated black and Hispanic inmates, began transferring troublemakers out and brought in clergy to try to restore peace after a week of racially charged brawls they feared would continue to erupt through the weekend. Margo Schlanger, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, said she saw no constitutional problem in using segregation as a last resort. "If the alternative to a temporary race segregation is a riot, where people get hurt, then yeah, you can do that," she said.



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