8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. – Breakfast and Greetings 

9:00 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. – Welcome Remarks and Introduction to Program  

• Ashley Errett and Kersey Reynolds, Symposium Editors of South Carolina Law Review
• Dean William Hubbard, Dean of USC Joseph F. Rice School of Law
• Evan Dawkins, Editor-in-Chief of South Carolina Law Review

9:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. – Peggy Nicholson (Duke University)

• The Children Are Our Future (Not Our Future Criminals): Protecting South Carolina’s Youngest Citizens by Setting a Minimum Age of Juvenile Court Jurisdiction 

10:25 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. – Sydney Ford (Charleston School of Law)

• Alone & Afraid: The Need for Elimination of Solitary Confinement in South Carolina

11:35 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. – David Garavito  (Washington University)

• The Youth Tax in Parole Hearings

12:35 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. – Lunch  

1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. – Madalyn Wasilczuk (Joseph F. Rice School of Law)

• Appealing Adulthood in South Carolina

2:25 p.m. to 3:25 p.m. – Kimberly Thomas (University of Michigan) & Jason Smith (Michigan Center for Youth Justice)

• Juvenile Justice Policy

3:35 p.m. to 4:35 p.m. – Aleksandra Chauhan (Joseph F. Rice School of Law)

• Review for Release: Application of the Eighth Amendment in Juvenile Parole Cases

4:45 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. – Circumstance of Youth Closing Remarks and Reception

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Event Details

• Where: Karen Williams Courtroom, 1st Floor, University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law, 1525 Senate St., Columbia, South Carolina 29201
• When: Friday, February 23 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (boxed lunches will be provided to attendees)