Experts and Affiliates
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Below you will find a list of our Academy for Justice academics and affiliated scholars. If you have interest in speaking to one of our scholars on a specific topic, please reach out to our Communications Manager, Jennifer Jost.
Shima Baradaran Baughman
Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Punishability Research
University of Utah
Valena Beety
Senior Research Fellow – Academy for Justice, Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law
Indiana University – Bloomington, Maurer School of Law
Douglas A. Berman
Robert J. Watkins/Procter & Gamble Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center
The Ohio State University
Bennett Capers
Professor of Law
Fordham University
Paul G. Cassell
Ronald N. Boyce Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and University Distinguished Professor of Law
University of Utah
Gabriel J. Chin
Edward L. Barrett Chair in Law and Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law
University of California, Davis
Beth A. Colgan
Professor of Law
University of California, Los Angeles
Frank Rudy Cooper
William S. Boyd Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Race, Gender, and Policing
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Angela J. Davis
Distinguished Professor of Law
American University
Henry F. Fradella
Professor and Associate Director, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Arizona State University
Barry Friedman
Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law, Affiliated Professor of Politics, and Director of the Policing Project
New York University
Brandon L. Garrett
L. Neil Williams, Jr. Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for Science and Justice
Duke University
Aya Gruber
Professor of Law
University of Colorado
Rachel A. Harmon
F.D.G. Ribble Professor of Law
University of Virginia
Kristin Henning
Agnes N. Williams Research Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative
Georgetown University
Elizabeth E. Joh
Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law
University of California, Davis
Nancy J. King
Lee S. & Charles A. Speir Professor of Law
Vanderbilt University
Erik Luna
Amelia D. Lewis Professor of Constitutional and Criminal Law and Founder and Director – Academy for Justice
Arizona State University
Ben McJunkin
Associate Professor of Law and Associate Deputy Director – Academy for Justice
Arizona State University
Pamela R. Metzger
Professor of Law and Director of the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center
Southern Methodist University
John Monahan
John S. Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Joel B. Piassick Research Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
University of Virginia
Alexandra Natapoff
Lee S. Kreindler Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Julie Rose O’Sullivan
Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Eve Brensike Primus
Professor of Law
University of Michigan
L. Song Richardson
Dean and Chancellor’s Professor of Law
University of California, Irvine
Michael Serota
Senior Research Fellow – Academy for Justice, Associate Professor of Law, Director of Criminal Justice Reform Lab
Loyola Law School
Christopher Slobogin
Milton Underwood Professor of Law, Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry, and Director of the Criminal Justice Program
Vanderbilt University
Stephen F. Smith
Professor of Law
University of Notre Dame
Jenia I. Turner
Amy Abboud Ware Centennial Professor in Criminal Law
Southern Methodist University
Robert Weisberg
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center
Stanford University
Ronald F. Wright
Needham Y. Gulley Professor of Criminal Law
Wake Forest University
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