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NACDL‘s Strengthening the Sixth project presents this webinar featuring Emily Galvin Almanza, Founder, Partners For Justice. Collaborative Defense (CD) is an approachable model of defense that endeavors to meet the unique needs of diverse defense services providers. Building on the principles of holistic defense and client-centered practice, the CD model‘s hallmark is its adaptability geared towards impacting the client experience, service delivery and case outcomes. Participants will learn how they can begin integrating CD principles into their service provision through the frameworks’ continuum of practice that balances defense capacity, community needs and resource limitations.

The Center for Law, Brain & Behavior (led by accomplished legal and medical experts—practitioners, researchers and thought leaders—based at Harvard Law School, Mass General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and other leading institutions of learning) has launched a NeuroLaw Library. The Center for Law, Brain & Behavior puts the most accurate and actionable neuroscience in the hands of judges, lawyers, policymakers and journalists—people who shape the standards and practices of our legal system and affect its impact on people’s lives. We work to make the legal system more effective and more just for all those affected by the law. Though the brain and the law are both complex, our work is quite simple. We provide expert training, tools and counsel, helping members of the legal community understand and apply the most relevant brain science to the cases, courtroom procedures and policies they influence. This presentation explores how neuroscience can aid in justice reform by debunking outdated beliefs about mental states that perpetuate the harsh sentencing of youth and young adults. The CLBB NeuroLaw Library has launched a unique, free online library with hundreds of journal articles and amicus briefs, educational videos, and toolkits for attorneys, judges, policy makers, and people who are incarcerated. AI-powered adaptability allows for these materials to be accessible at various reading levels, catering to those with limited research time or lower education levels. The CLBB NeuroLaw Library seeks to leverage neuroscience to drive meaningful change.

This National Townhall sponsored by the Gault Center will provide youth defense attorneys and advocates with an opportunity to develop concrete strategies to fight ordinary injustices in juvenile court. Utilizing the National Youth Defense System Standards as a framework, participants will explore practical litigation and policy strategies to strengthen youth rights, disrupt carceral systems, create opportunities for transformative change, and bring forth true liberation and freedom for all youth. Participants will also have an opportunity to connect with each other about systemic issues in local jurisdictions to create synergy and build toward collective action. National Youth Defense Townhall Agenda Welcome and introduction to the Townhall Presentation on the power of disruption, using a constitutional rights framework based on the National Youth Defense System Standards and User Guide Small groups, based on constitutional right (tentatively listed below): Right to post-disposition representation (System Standards 2.4 and 6.2) Right to probable cause determinations (System Standards 3.4) Right to counsel during questioning by police, probation, or other state actor (System Standards 3.4) Right to equal treatment (System Standards 6.1) Right to evidentiary hearings to determine whether a youth should face adult prosecution (System Standards 6.3)