Faculty in the News

Matthew Robinson was invited to deliver the key note address to the annual conference of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML).  His presentation was titled “Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics” and focused on findings from his co-authored book by the same title (State University of New York Press, 2007). Robinson was also an invited speaker at the University of Sioux Falls (South Dakota).  There, he presented the “Liberal Arts Requirement” lecture, titled “Using Liberal Arts to Change the World (or Just Be a Good Citizen)” as well as the “Knudson Lecture in Social Ethics” titled “The Real Death Penalty.”  The latter lecture was based on Robinson’s book, titled Death Nation: The Experts Explain American Capital Punishment (Pearson Education, 2008). Finally, Robinson was invited to deliver the key note address to the North Carolina Criminal Justice Association (NCCJA), titled “The Ethics of Capital Punishment.”  This lecture focused on how empirical evidence should impact the issue of ethics with regard to the death penalty.