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Professor Andrea Armstrong to Deliver 2025 Coen Lecture

The University of Colorado Law School is excited to announce that Professor Andrea Armstrong will deliver the 66th Annual John R. Coen Lecture on Thursday, April 10, from 5:30-7:30 pm in Wittemyer Courtroom. A zoom option will also be available.听

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Armstrong鈥檚 lecture is titled 鈥淐arceral Secrecy.鈥 Prisons, jails, and detention centers are 鈥渃losed institutions,鈥 and conditions within these spaces are often shielded from public view and inquiry. 听In this lecture, Professor Armstrong will discuss the mechanisms that keep these听spaces (and the experiences of people within them) hidden, as well as the purposes that carceral secrecy serves. 听Register for the event

Armstrong is the Dr. Norman C. Francis Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and a听.听 She is an expert in incarceration law and policy, bringing much-needed transparency to incarceration practices in the United States. Armstrong鈥檚 work integrates law, history,听public health, and the arts in her efforts to educate broad audiences about the human costs of incarceration.听She teaches in the related fields of constitutional law, criminal law and procedure, law and poverty, and race and the law.听

Professor Armstrong founded听,听a database and website that documents and memorializes individual deaths behind bars in Louisiana and supports documentation efforts in South Carolina and Alabama.听 Her research has been profiled by New Yorker Magazine, cited by the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, and National Public Radio, among others, and published by leading civil rights and policy law journals including the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Stanford Law & Policy Review, and University of California-Irvine.听听

Professor Armstrong is a graduate of Yale Law School (JD), the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (MPA), and New York University (BA).听 She is certified by听the U.S. Department of Justice as a Prison Rape Elimination Act auditor.

The听Coen lectureship听was established in 1955 in memory of John Coen, a distinguished member of the Colorado bar and an able public speaker. The lectureship seeks to bring a prominent and distinguished lawyer, jurist, or scholar of law to deliver an annual lecture to Colorado Law鈥檚 students, faculty, and alumni on a legal subject of interest and benefit to the profession, preferably with some public or political aspect.