2024 Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law

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2024 Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law
Prosecuting Politics: Is it a Solution to Our Current Democratic Gridlock?Featuring: Byung J. "BJay" Pak
Partner, Atlanta & Washington, DC
Alston & Bird LLCFriday, September 13, 2024
12-1 p.m.
Max L. Rowe Auditorium
Law Building
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/Ua5vu0EsXqIMr. Pak will share his perspective on how the current political climate and recent events shifted enormous power to, and placed pressure on, prosecutors to prosecute crimes touching upon elective politics, and how prosecutorial discretion appropriately might be exercised under these circumstances.
Lecture is free and open to the public.
A reception will follow in the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Pavilion.