“Criminal Sentencing Colloquium: Developments in Civilian and Military Law”

The title of this post is the title of this upcoming event, the 2025 Matthew J. Ryan Law and Public Policy Forum, scheduled for next Friday and presented by the David F. and Constance B. Girard-diCarlo Center for Ethics, Integrity and Compliance at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.  Here is how the event described:

This colloquium will examine crucial developments in sentencing law across two distinct domains: federal civilian sentencing jurisprudence and military justice reform. This event will bring together leading scholars and practitioners to explore these parallel yet distinct evolutionary paths in American sentencing law. It is a particularly opportune moment to explore these issues as it has been 20 years since the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision in United States v. Booker and just over one year since the military justice “sentencing parameters” became effective pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022.

In addition to our other distinguished panelists, we are honored to welcome Judge Stephanos Bibas of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

This event has been approved for 4 hours of substantive CLE credits by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board. This event will accommodate both in-person and virtual attendees. Registration is required. Space is limited.

Co-sponsored by the Federal Sentencing Reporter and the National Institute of Military Justice.

If one clicks through to the event page, one can see that I am among the least distinguished of the distinguished panelists.  And that is one of many reasons I am grateful and excited to be part of this interesting event.