Carol and Jordan Steiker on “Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment”

Please join us at 5pm on Saturday, February 25th for a reading and conversation with sibling authors Carol and Jordan Steiker on their new book, Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment. Joining them in conversation will be author Bernard Harcourt.

Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial regulation of capital punishment under the Constitution and its unanticipated consequences for our time.

Carol S. Steiker is Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Jordan M. Steiker is Judge Robert M. Parker Endowed Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law.

Bernard E. Harcourt is Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University and Directeur d’études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris.