James Copland is director of and senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy, which seeks to develop and communicate novel, sound ideas on how to improve the civil and criminal-justice systems. Copland has testified before Congress and has authored many policy white papers, book chapters, and articles in journals, including the Harvard Business Law Review and Yale Journal on Regulation, as well as opinion pieces in newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, National Law Journal, and USA Today. In this speech, he discusses "Overcriminalizing the Old North State."