2026 Bodiker Lecture: “Can Claude Convict? AI and Moral Experience in U.S. Criminal Law.”
The 2026 Bodiker Lecture welcomes Sandra (Sandy) Mayson, Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Please register by September 9th to be guaranteed a lunch.
Sandra (Sandy) Mayson is Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where she teaches Criminal Law, Evidence, and seminars related to criminal justice reform and legal theory. Professor Mayson’s scholarship spans criminal law, constitutional law, and legal theory. Her articles have appeared in the nation’s top law journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Law & Philosophy, and Criminal Law & Philosophy. Her co-authored article “Bail at the Founding” (Harvard Law Review, 2024) won the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation’s Legal History Article-of-the-Year Award in 2025.
Mayson is an elected member of the American Law Association, as well as Associate Director of the Institute for Law & Philosophy at Penn Carey Law and an Associate Editor of the peer-review journal Law & Philosophy. She is also engaged in pretrial law reform. She served as the Associate Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission’s Pretrial Release & Detention Act, co-authors amicus briefs in lawsuits challenging aspects of money-bail systems, and advises public and private stakeholders on pretrial reform initiatives.
Before joining Penn Carey Law, Professor Mayson was on the faculty of University of Georgia School of Law, where she won the C. Ronald Ellington Award for Excellence in Teaching and the John C. O’Byrne Memorial Award for Significant Contributions Furthering Student-Faculty Relations. Prior to her academic career, Mayson practiced as a trial attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow at Orleans Public Defenders. She clerked for Judge Dolores K. Sloviter on the U.S. Third Circuit and Judge L. Felipe Restrepo in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The David H. Bodiker Lecture on Criminal Justice honors the legacy of David Bodiker ’63 by promoting, improving, and advancing the highest level of academic and professional interest in protecting the constitutional rights of defendants in the criminal justice system. Each year, the lecture brings leading voices in law and public policy to Moritz College of Law to address pressing issues in criminal justice reform.