Janet’s reappointment as Assistant Professor of Law was approved by the Provost.

Janet published:

• Democracy Enhancement in Criminal Law and Procedure, 2014 Utah L. Rev. 543.

 
In August, Janet presented her work in progress entitled The Duty to Communicate at an annual conference for Chief Public Defenders from across the country, and served as a small-group facilitator for chief defenders dealing with the constitutional and ethical challenges raised by excessive defender workloads. Her paper Participatory Defense, a revised and expanded version of The Duty to Communicate co-authored with social scientist Marla Sandys and community organizer Raj Jayadev, will be published as an invited article in a forthcoming Albany Law Review symposium edition on indigent defense research.

Janet’s article Unnoticed, Untapped, and Underappreciated: Clients’ Perceptions of their Public Defenders, co-authored with Christopher Campbell and other social scientists at Washington State University, will be published in Behavioral Sciences & the Law.

She also also accepted invitations and began contributing as an expert on a number of national indigent defense reform projects.

• Janet was invited to join the Systems Evaluation Project led by the research division of North Carolina’s Indigent Defense Services system with funding assistance provided through the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. This project is the first in the nation to define and empirically test key performance indicators for quality indigent defense services.
• She also joined the National Right to Counsel initiative sponsored by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers with support from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance.  This project focuses on improving performance standards and training for indigent defense service providers.
• Invited Expert, Indigent Defense Advisory Group, American Bar Association, Chicago, IL (assessing and promoting opportunities for nationwide indigent defense reform)
• Invited Expert, Steering Committee, National Association for Public Defense (virtual grassroots organization of defenders and defender leaders dedicated to   nationwide indigent defense reform)
• Co-convenor, Indigent Defense Research Association (virtual organization of researchers focusing on empirical analysis of indigent defense systems)

 
Janet delivered several other presentations during the fall:

• Selected presenter, Unnoticed, Untapped, and Underappreciated: Clients’ Perceptions of their Public Defenders, Behav. Sci. & L. (co-authored article forthcoming 2015), American Society of Criminology Conference, San Francisco, California, Nov. 21, 2014.
• Selected presenter, The Impoverished Sixth Amendment, Constitutional Law Colloquium, Loyola University-Chicago School of Law, Nov. 7–8, 2014.
• Democracy Enhancement and the Sixth Amendment Right to Choose, University of Kentucky College of Law junior faculty workshop, Oct. 31, 2014.
• Invited Presenter, The Duty to Communicate, Conference of Chief Defenders, Lexington, Kentucky, Aug. 20, 2014.

 
Janet’s article Democracy and Criminal Discovery Reform After Connick and Garcetti, 77 Brook. L. Rev. 1329 (2012), was cited in Daniel Richman, Framing the Prosecution, 87 S. Cal. L. Rev. 673 (2014); Margaret Tarkington, Lost in the Compromise: Free Speech, Criminal Justice, and Attorney Pretrial Publicity, 66 Fla. L. Rev. 1873 (2014); and H. Mitchell Caldwell, The Prosecutor Prince: Misconduct, Accountability, and a Modest Proposal, 63 Cath. U. L. Rev. 51 (2013).