Janet’s paper, Inequality Aversion, Democracy Enhancement, and the Right to Choose an Attorney, was accepted for presentation at Loyola University-Chicago’s Constitutional Law Colloquium which will take place in November 2014 and where Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of California-Irvine School of Law will be keynote speaker.

Janet was invited to present her paper The Duty to Communicate at a colloquium of senior and junior scholars in constitutional criminal procedure and ethics held at Fordham Law School from June 8-11.

Janet’s co-authored empirical piece, Unnoticed, Untapped, and Underappreciated: Clients’ Perceptions of their Public Defenders, was completed and submitted for consideration to a peer-reviewed journal.

Janet was the invited opening speaker at the annual Criminal Law Symposium at the University of Illinois College of Law on April 26, where her topic was Opening the Black Box: Challenges and Possibilities for Criminal Discovery Reform.  The event was attended by federal judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers, law professors, and students.

Janet’s article Democracy and Criminal Discovery Reform after Connick and Garcetti, 77 Brook. L. Rev. 1329 (2012), was cited in Brian P. Fox, An Argument Against Open-File Discovery in Criminal Cases, 89 Notre Dame L. Rev. 425 (2013); in R. Michael Cassidy, (Ad)ministering Justice: A Prosecutor’s Ethical Duty to Support Sentencing Reform, 45 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 981 (2014); in Ellen Yaroshefsky, New Orleans Prosecutorial Disclosure in Practice After Connick v. Thompson, 25 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 913 (2012); in Margaret Tarkington, A First Amendment Theory for Protecting Attorney Speech, 45 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 27 (2011); and in Ellen Yaroshefsky, Why Do Brady Violations Happen?: Cognitive Bias and Beyond 37 Champion 12 (2013), and in Beyond the Brady Rule, a New York Times op-ed (May 19, 2013), which was published after Janet was interviewed on the subject of criminal discovery reform by New York Times Editorial Board member Lincoln Caplan.