2020 UM Debate Camp Lecture Titles
2020 Camp CRJ Topic Specific Lectures (34):
CJR Topic Lecture
Race in Criminal Justice
Criminality and Anti-blackness
Survey of Forensic Science
Survey of Policing
Survey of Sentencing
Criminal Procedure
Executive Authority in CJR
DNA Collections and Databases
Counter Surveillance
Mandatory Minimums
Marijuana
Natives
The Death Penalty
Immigration/Abolish Ice
Civil Forfeiture
Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System
Privatization of Prisons: History, Politics, and Consequences
Alternatives to Prisons
Restorative Justice Models
White Collar Crime
CJR Case Studies
Case Study on Chicago Police Abuse – Burge & Watts
Extrajudicial Detention and Criminal Justice Reform
States: Their Role in CJR
Debating Against the States Counterplan on the Affirmative
Debating Lopez
The Politics of Criminal Justice Reform
Debating the 2020 Election
Debating Word PICs on the CJR Topic
Covid-19 Influence on the CJR Topic
Topicality on the CJR Topical
Process Counterplans on the Topic
Debating Process Counterplans on the Affirmative
2020 Camp Courts Lectures (9):
Overview of Supreme Court
Overview of the Judicial System
Supreme Court Cases: 4th Amendment
Supreme Court Cases: 14th Amendment
Supreme Court Cases: 6th Amendment
Supreme Court Cases: 8th Amendment
Debating Distinguish
Debating Court Politics
Debating Constitutional Amendment
2020 Camp Kritik Lectures (18):
Introduction to the Kritik (2 parts)
Reform vs. Revolution
Foucaultian Theories of Crime
Agamben
Settler Colonialism
Capitalism/Neoliberalism
Seminar with Frank Wilderson and Anna Agathangelou
Seminar with Fred Moten and Alexander Weheliye
Nietzsche
Baudrillard
“Bataille and the Law: Sovereign, Subject and Transgression”
“Becoming Imperceptible: Deleuze and Criminality”
“Legal Feedback Mechanisms: Introduction to Cybernetics and Control Systems”
“Behavior Modification: Cybernetics, Law and Surveillance Capitalism”
“The Concept of Justice: Derrida and Lyotard” (2 parts)
Extinction/Big Impact Strategy Aff./Neg. versus the Kritik
Defending Soft-Left Affirmatives vs. the Kritik
Debating the Case vs. Kritik Affirmatives
2020 Camp Skills/Theory/General Argument Lectures (24)
Research – Basic, Intermediate and Advanced
Framework
Cross-Examination
Judge Adaptation
Fiat Series
Block Writing
Debating the Case in the Block
How to Win Case Debates
Negative Strategy & Being an Effective 1N
The 2NR
The 2NR in Kritik Debates
The 2AR
Affirmative Strategy
Debating Topicality
Debating Soft Left Framing
Defending Solvency with Data
Debating Economy Impacts
Debating Hegemony Impacts
Rights Malthus
Global Warming
DeDev: Not All that It’s Cracked Up to Be
Pinker and the Improving World
Cancel the Politics DA
Covid-19 and impact debates (probability vs. magnitude, economy, hegemony, disease impacts more generally, global/allied relations, and internal country stability)