NCVLI Hosts 12th Annual Crime Victim Law Conference

On Friday and Saturday, June 7-8, NCVLI hosted the 12th Annual Crime Victim Law Conference in Portland, Oregon.  NCVLI’s Conference continues to be the only national conference focused on victims’ rights.  More than 200 attorneys, advocates, and others committed to victims’ rights gathered to learn from the leading experts in the field and engage in conversations to shape the future of the victims’ rights movement. 

This year’s Conference was themed Constructing Justice: Making Victims’ Rights a Reality, urging us to make victims’ rights more than just paper promises, but instead laws that are routinely enforced and continually advanced. The 24 breakout sessions and 4 plenary sessions introduced concrete tools and best practices in victim law and discussed how to best implement them to achieve justice for victims. 

We were honored to learn from an incredible faculty and group of attendees.  Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum opened the Conference and Lieutenant General Richard Harding of the United States Air Force closed the Conference with a discussion of the new Special Victims Counsel program for military victims of sexual assault.  In between, attendees learned from experts ranging from Deputy Attorney General of California, Alice B. Lustre, on the application of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act in habeas corpus proceedings; Dr. Rebecca Campbell, a leading researcher on the effects of the legal process on rape survivors; a panel of promising law scholars who won NCVLI’s Victims’ Rights Writing Competition and hailed from the Phoenix School of Law, University of Maryland School of Law, and University of Washington School of Law; and Lewis & Clark Law School’s own victims’ rights experts, NCVLI Founder Professor Doug Beloof and NCVLI Executive Director and Clinical Professor Meg Garvin.    

We celebrated with our Conference attendees and local community by hosting the largest ever Crime Victims’ Rights Reception on the first night of the Conference.  Click here to see the Reception photos!

Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s Conference events and we look forward to seeing you next year!  Click the gallery below to scroll through the Conference photos.

This event was supported in part through funding from the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, United States Department of Justice. Points of view expressed in this event were those of the organizers and do not necessarily represent the official position of policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.