Mark Kleiman – Which Drugs Should Be Legal? How Legal Should They Be?

Mark Kleiman – Which Drugs Should Be Legal? How Legal Should They Be? – September 20, 2012 Which Drugs Should Be Legal? How Legal Should They Be? Room 003, Rockefeller Center 4:30 PM Mark Kleiman Professor of Public Policy, UCLA Mark Kleiman is Professor of Public Policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. This fall he is Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia’s Batten School of Leadership and Policy, and a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Justice. He teaches courses on methods of policy analysis and on drug abuse and crime control. Mr. Kleiman edits the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis and serves on the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Research Council. He is the author of When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment and co-author (with Angela Hawken and Jonathan Caulkins) of Drugs and Drug Policy and (with Hawken, Caulkins, and Beau Kilmer) of Marijuana Legalization. Previous books include Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results and Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control. In addition to his academic work, Mr. Kleiman provides advice on crime control and drug policy to governments here and abroad. He has held policy positions with the US Department of Justice and the City of Boston.

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