Professor Jessica M. Eaglin will be presenting select chapters from her book manuscript, Transformation in the Dark: Informational Criminal Legal Practices and the Formation of Social Difference in the Digital Age.

Eaglin’s book manuscript examines how informational criminal legal practices shape the formation of social difference through law. By expanding the vocabulary on what is wrong with the expansion of informational criminal legal practices in the United States, this book manuscript seeks to shift the discourse on how to address these practices as well. Ultimately, Transformation in the Dark provides a theoretical frame to approach key pressure points across informational criminal law practices. It asserts that realizing nonsubordinating social dynamics in the future requires asking different questions in relation to criminal law practices in the present.

Participants are expected to have read the paper, which will be circulated at least one week before the event. There will not be a formal presentation.

Speaker

Jessica M. Eaglin joined the Cornell Law School faculty on July 1, 2023. She most recently served as a Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Professor Eaglin's research examines the expansion of technical legal practices in criminal administration as response to the economic and social pressures of mass incarceration. She is a leading expert on algorithms in criminal sentencing. Her articles and essays have been published with the Cornell Law Review, Stanford Law Review Online, and Washington University Law Review, among other journals. Previously, Professor Eaglin was counsel in the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where she assisted in a national campaign aimed at addressing mass incarceration in the United States. She clerked with the Honorable Damon J. Keith for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Eaglin began her law career as a Litigation Associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP in New York City.