Joyce Vance Book Launch
Join us to celebrate the launch of Joyce Vance's Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy.
Joyce will be in conversation with former U.S. Senator, Doug Jones.
- Friday, October 17 at 6:00pm
- Little Professor Homewood
- Registration is required. Ticket only and tickets including a book are available. Additional books will be available for purchase at the event.
About the Book
Giving Up Is Unforgivable is a clarion call to action, putting our current crisis in historical context and sketching out a vision for where we go next. Vance's message is hopeful at its heart, even as it acknowledges the daunting challenges that lie ahead. She is the constitutional law professor you never knew you needed, explaining the legal context and the political history -- and why the rule of the law still matters. At the same time, she empowers the reader to do something, both as individuals and collectively.
About the Author
Joyce Vance is the former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, an office she held during the Obama administration. She resigned on the eve of Donald Trump’s first inauguration at the end of twenty-five years of service as a career federal prosecutor. Vance is a Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. She is a legal analyst for NBC and MSNBC, the author of the popular Civil Discourse Substack, and the cohost of two podcasts: #SistersInLaw and Cafe’s Insider. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her husband, Bob, a retired judge, and a menagerie of children, chickens, cats, and dogs.