Janet was promoted to Associate Professor of Law effective August 15, 2015.

Janet published Make Them Hear You: Participatory Defense and the Struggle for Criminal Justice Reform, at 78 Alb. L. Rev. 1281 (2015) (with Marla Sandys and Raj Jayadev). The article was cited, and Janet was quoted, in a New York Times opinion column: David Bornstein, Guiding Families to a Fair Day in Court, N.Y. Times, May 29, 2015. The article will also be presented before a number of conferences in the coming year, including the American Society of Criminology Conference (November 2015), the LatCrit conference (Los Angeles, October 2015), the ClassCrits conference (University of Tennessee, November 2015), and at the American Bar Association Midyear Meeting (San Diego, February 2016).

Janet also organized and led the August 18 panel discussion and community conversation, Law, Democracy, and the Struggle for Criminal Justice Reform at the Meyers Gallery.  This event was the College of Law’s invited contribution to “drawn,” a response by University Provost Beverly Davenport and others at the University to the killing of Michael DuBose by University of Cincinnati Police Officer Raymond Tensing. Panelists included community activist Iris Roley; Hamilton County Reentry Director DeAnna Hoskins; and high school students from the College of Law’s Law & Leadership Institute.

Janet was invited to participate in a two-day symposium entitled “Defining Quality in Indigent Defense,” sponsored by the National Science Foundation, at the University of Albany in November 2015. She also will serve as a discussant for two panels at the American Society of Criminology Conference (Washington, D.C., November 2015). These panels include speakers from the United States Department of Justice and the National Science Foundation, and topics to be discussed include the opportunities and challenges of obtaining support for empirical research on indigent defense.

Janet will serve as co-Guest Editor with Andrew Davies, Ph.D., for a symposium edition of the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law (forthcoming Spring 2017). This symposium will include new empirical analyses of indigent defense by researchers who will present their work at a two-day conference during the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology in Washington, D.C. in November.

Janet attended George Mason University’s two-week Law & Economics Institute for Law Professors in July, and the symposium Defining Quality in Criminal Justice, hosted by the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in May. She also served as a lecturer and small group leader during the National Defender Training Project’s week-long intensive trial training program at the University of Dayton School of Law in May.

Janet’s article Democracy Enhancement in Criminal Law and Procedure, 2014 Utah L. Rev. 543, was cited in Jennifer E. Laurin, Gideon by the Numbers: The Emergence of Evidence-Based Practice in Indigent Defense, 12 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 325 (2015).