Akron Law Federalist Society Spring Fling: A Week of Intellectual Engagement
Tuesday, March 27th, 12:30 pm, W-210
Event Title: “Shoot to Kill: Police Use of Deadly Force”
Keynote Speaker: Jack Kress, Director of the Ethics and Justice Center
Commentator: Professor Dana Cole, Akron School of Law
Lunch Provided by Chili’s
Brief event description in the words of Mr. Kress: “I’ll be using a vintage NYPD training film on the police use of deadly force and trying actively to engage the students with it. I intend only very briefly to mention Supreme Court cases, such as Tennessee v. Garner and Graham v. Connor, as I will focus primarily on the students’ experiencing the firearm simulation exercise and therefore better understanding how police experience the decision of whether and when to employ lethal force.”
Jack Kress Bio:
Jack Kress is the author of more than 15 books and 70 articles on issues of ethics and justice; his most recent peer-reviewed article was published in the prestigious American Journal of Transplantation. Professor Kress holds degrees from Columbia University and Cambridge University; he has been tenured and taught at several graduate schools. He has also held numerous positions with local, state and federal government agencies.
In 1990, Professor Kress was named Special Counsel for Ethics and Designated Agency Ethics Official for the United States Department of Health and Human Services, where he worked with the Office of White House Counsel and the U. S. Office of Government Ethics in formulating the federal government’s ethics policies; he concurrently directed the largest federal ethics and bioethics program, encompassing all components of HHS, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
In 2001, Jack Kress was selected as the first Executive Director of the HHS Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation, and led that group in promulgating and implementing more than forty recommendations for reform in America’s donation and transplantation system, including the establishment of the national breakthrough collaborative. From 2004-2009, Professor Kress was a core faculty member of the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College. He presently directs the Ethics and Justice Center in Saratoga Springs, New York.