Crime Victim Law Conference

To secure a place for crime victims as participants with a legally recognized voice requires cultural change and education is a key step in this process.  The Crime Victim Law Conference is the only conference on rights enforcement in the country.  This is an invaluable opportunity for professionals serving victims to acquire the knowledge and practical skills necessary to provide effective services to victims and to reform the criminal justice system.

Save the Date for the 2012 Conference

Enhancing Justice:

Empowerment Through Victims’ Rights

June 8-9 (Pre-conference Institute on June 7) | Portland, Oregon

The 11th Annual Crime Victim Law Conference, Enhancing Justice: Empowerment Through Victims’ Rights, will have an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together experts from a variety of backgrounds including attorneys, advocates, professors, and mental health professionals.  Presentations will focus on providing practitioners the tools to ensure that services to victims are holistic, victim-centric, and empowering.  Presenters will include David Lisak, renowned clinical psychologist and published author of cutting edge research on the causes and consequences of interpersonal violence, and Paul Cassell, Professor of Law in the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah and victims’ rights legal expert.

Stay tuned for registration and program details!

Outstanding Achievement Award Nominations

NCVLI invites you to nominate individuals and/or organizations to receive a 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award.  These awards recognize individuals and/or organizations in one of three categories:  Legal Advocacy Award, Gail Burns-Smith Excellence in Victim Services Award, and Victims’ Rights Partnership Award.  We present the awards at our annual Crime Victim Law Conference.

Please click here for further information on the Outstanding Achievement Awards and for an award nomination form.  Information on past award recipients can be found by clicking on the linked award titles above.

2nd Annual Law Student Writing Competition- extended deadline!

Law students are once again invited to submit a completed paper or an abstract addressing victims’ rights to be presented on a law student panel at the Conference. Current law students or recent graduates (within the last 18 months) are invited to apply. Click here to learn more and to apply.   

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2011 Conference Recap

June 14 - 15, 2011  |  Portland, Oregon

See last year’s conference website | See photos from the Conference here.

Thanks to all who made the 2011 Crime Victim Law Conference, 10 Years of Rights Enforcement: Creating the Future of Crime Victim Law, a tremendous success! More than 170 criminal justice professionals and victims’ rights experts from across the country gathered both to learn from each other and to work together to develop the tools necessary to advance victims’ rights and reform the criminal justice system.

The overarching purpose of the 2011 Conference was to celebrate 10 years of litigation successes while recognizing emerging challenges to victims’ rights. To this end, the Conference featured 5 plenary sessions and 24 breakout sessions addressing topics of critical importance to the victims’ rights community, taught by leading victim law experts from across the country. Overall Conference evaluations were uniformly positive: 95% of the evaluations received to date have indicated that attendees were satisfied with the overall quality of the Conference, and 100% indicated that they were satisfied with the selection of topics and speakers.

Past Conferences

• Due Process for Victims: Meaningful Rights in Every Case - June 10 - June 11, 2010 - The Portland Marriott Downtown
• The Path to Progress - June 30 - July 1, 2009 - The Benson Hotel
• Opening the Doors: Victim Access to Justice - May 30 - 31, 2008 - Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront
• Architecture of Justice: An Integration of Victims’ Rights - May 18 - 19, 2007 - Doubletree Hotel
• The Power of One, Strength of Many: Advancing Victims’ Rights - June 16 - 17, 2006 - Hilton Portland & Executive Tower
• A Legal Symphony: Instruments of Legal Advocacy - June 17 - 18, 2005 - Hilton Portland & Executive Tower
• 2004 Crime Victim Law & Litigation Conference - June 18 - 19, 2004 - Hilton Portland & Executive Tower
• 2003 Crime Victim Law & Litigation Conference - June 20 - 21, 2003 - Hilton Portland & Executive Tower
• 2002 Crime Victim Law & Litigation Conference - June 21 - 22, 2002 - The Benson Hotel

The 2009 and 2010 conferences were supported by Grant No. 2008-DD-BX-K001 awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view on these pages are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.