NCDC Blog
T.P.I. – When You are Ready to be Great
Greetings from the National Criminal Defense College! We are cautiously excited to share news with everyone about the 2021 NCDC Trial Practice Institute. As everyone knows, we were unable to hold the NCDC Trial Practice Institute last year due to the COVID-19...
A Conversation with Nancy Hollander About “The Mauritanian”
REGISTER NOW for A Conversation with Nancy Hollander About The New Film, The Mauritanian It has been a long and lonely year so come spend some time with your NCDC Family! On March 8th, from 5:00-6:30 PM (EST), come and participate with us in a conversation with NCDC...
NCDC Gets a New Look
Beloved Defender Community, NCDC is proud to share our new beautiful logo. You will see the use of the full name of the College (the National Criminal Defense College) emphasizing Criminal Defense for the viewer. The flame from the previous logo is carried forward. It...
A Must Read Opinion Excoriating Police Officer Immunity from Judge Carlton Reeves
If you are waking up and looking for something to get your blood boiling, you ought to check out this amazing district court opinion written by Judge Carlton Reeves out of Mississippi. Judge Reeves is an African-American Obama appointee who was slated to speak at the...
In Memory of Ben Belzer
In memory of Ben Belzer We are super proud to support the scholarship fund that has been established as a memorial to Ben Belzer, son of NCDC Faculty Member Keith Belzer, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Anyone wishing to donate to the memorial fund via check,...
In Tribute to John Lewis
REP. JOHN LEWIS ON PASSAGE OF FIRST STEP ACT December 20, 2018 Press Release “For too long, our nation’s criminal justice system has broken lives and ravaged communities across America. People of color and people without means are too often unfairly caught in a...
A Message from the Deans
Today, we proudly celebrate Juneteenth, the commemoration of the June 19, 1865 emancipation of the last people held in bondage in the United States. Texas slaveholders stubbornly refused to free the enslaved people or even to acknowledge the Confederacy’s defeat...
How Police Unions Became So Powerful
Hats off to NCDC Board Chair Ron Tyler and his colleague at Stanford Law School, Suzanne Luban, for shedding light on the problem of Police Unions that stand in the way of meaningful policing reforms. Watch the video here The National Criminal Defense College is a...
Trump Is Waiting to Take ‘Law and Order’ Into His Own Hands
Hats off to NCDC Faculty Member and Federal Defender Juval Scott who co-authored this piece in the New York Times refuting claims that Trump can use the military to quell protesters. These are scary times that require our vigilance and action. Read the New York Times...
A GIANT PASSES: A Tribute to Albert Krieger
Authored by Rick Kammen In 1983, after the National College for Criminal Defense, in Houston Texas had failed financially, Cat Bennett, Deryl Dantzler and Albert Krieger worked mightily to resurrect the college under the new name, the National Criminal Defense...
