Mark Godsey / Winter 2015

  • Professor Mark Godsey’s book chapter, The Human Factor in Wrongful Convictions Across National Borders, was published in the book Understanding Wrongful Conviction: The Protection of the Innocent Across Europe and America (Wolters Kluwer 2015), edited by Luca Luparia, professor of law at the University of Milan. Each chapter was written by a leading innocence scholar from various European countries and the U.S.
  • Professor Godsey accepted the Rescuer of Humanity Award in December of 2015 on behalf of the OIP from Project Love, a major philanthropic organization in Cleveland. Prior winners of the award include Rosa Parks, Steven Speilberg and Christopher Reeve.
  • Professor Godsey accepted the Outstanding Organization Award in December of 2015 on behalf of the OIP from the Ohio State Bar Foundation.
  • Professor Godsey submitted a chapter titled The Global Innocence Movement for the book, Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution: Twenty-Five Years of Freeing the Innocent, to be published by the Cambridge University Press.
  • Professor Godsey was invited to present a closing lecture at the symposium launching the Japan Innocence Project in March of 2016. Mark will present at events in Tokyo and Kyoto.
  • Professor Godsey accepted a board position on the new European Innocence Network and will lecture at the Network’s upcoming conference in Prague, Czech Republic in June of 2016.

Additionally, Professor Godsey’s work was cited in the following:

  • Professor Godsey’s Reforming the Miranda Warnings in Light of Contemporary Law and Understandings, 90 Minn. L. Rev. 781, 805–807 (2006), in Andrew V. Jezic, Patrick L. Woodward, Kathryn Grill Graeff, Frank Molony, Md. Law of Confessions § 7:3 (2015-2016 ed.).

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