Changing Minds, Changing Policy
Professor Sykes co-organized a conference on “Mortality and Criminal Legal System Contact" at Cornell University in September 2025. He is co-editing a special issue of Population Research and Policy Review on the topic, which will appear in print in 2027.
Professor Sykes speaks at the O’Neill Institute of Georgetown University’s School of Law on “Democracy and Health”, as a panelist for a symposium on Memory, Medicine, and Law: Reflecting on the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina; September 11-13, 2025. Panel discussions were featured on C-SPAN.