On March 21, to mark his appointment as Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law, Andrew Manuel Crespo '08 delivered a lecture titled "Root and Branch: Lawyers, Movements, and The End of Mass Incarceration." Professor Crespo's research and scholarly expertise center on the institutional design, legal frameworks, and power structures of the American penal system, and on the relationship between lawyers, organizers, and social movement actors in effecting transformational change.

In addition to his professorship, Professor Crespo is faculty director of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, where he works to develop modes of legal practice that integrate lawyers effectively and responsibly into organizer-led anti-carceral campaigns and movements.