Janet was awarded the College’s 2015 Goldman Prize for excellence in teaching.

Several of Janet’s articles were accepted for publication.

• Unnoticed, Untapped, and Underappreciated: Clients’ Perceptions of their Public Defenders (with Christopher C. Campbell, Wesley Meier and Michael Gaffney), will be published in the peer-reviewed journal Behavioral Science & Law (forthcoming 2015).
• Make Them Hear You: Participatory Defense and the Struggle for Criminal Justice Reform (with Marla Sandys and Raj Jayadev), an invited symposium article, will be published in Volume 78 of the Albany Law Review (forthcoming 2015). The paper was listed on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for AARN: Civil Society & Social Movements.

Janet delivered several presentations in the spring.

• In February, her paper Democracy Enhancement and the Sixth Amendment Right to Choose was presented at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law as part of UC’s scholar exchange program.
• In March, her article Unnoticed, Untapped, and Underappreciated: Clients’ Perceptions of their Public Defenders was presented at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference, in San Diego, California. Janet also presented Study This! An Indigent Defense Research Manifesto as part of a National Association for Public Defense Webinar, and Beyond the Not-so-New Jim Crow, as part of the College of Law Faculty’s “Downtown Teach-In” for student scholarships. Janet also was interviewed, along with Prof. Marianna Bettman, on the Bloomberg Law radio podcast “Clark v. Ohio: Confrontation and Child Witnesses.”

She is also scheduled to present her forthcoming article Make Them Hear You: Participatory Defense and the Struggle for Criminal Justice Reform in November 2015 at the American Society Society of Criminology Conference in Washington, D.C.

Janet’s editorial, Hunter Case Shows Democracy in Action, was published in the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Janet’s article Democracy and Criminal Discovery Reform After Connick and Garcetti, 77 Brook. L. Rev. 1329 (2012), was cited in R. Michael Cassidy, (Ad)ministering Justice: A Prosecutor’s Ethical Duty to Support Sentencing Reform, 45 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 981 (2014).