Boyd Law School Hosts Public Interest Law Film Festival

The UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law will host the second annual Public Interest Film Festival, which addresses the question of what makes legal processes and penalties fair. The festival will include three films that examine the roles of lawyers, litigants, judges, lawmakers, the media and the public in legitimizing the legal system. The following films will be shown:

Sept. 13, 6:00 p.m. and Sept. 14, 8:00 a.m.: Crime After Crime, a documentary about an incarcerated woman who was connected to the murder of her abusive husband.
Sept. 14, 10 a.m.: Hot Coffee, a film about how large corporations affect and influence the justice system
Sept. 14, 1:45 p.m.: AbUSed: The Postville Raid, about an immigration raid at a meatpacking plant in Postville, IA.