
Experts and Affiliates
The Academy for Justice is fortunate to be able to work with some of the best and brightest scholars in criminal justice reform across the country.
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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

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

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

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

Alexandra Natapoff
Lee S. Kreindler Professor of Law
Harvard Law School

L. Song Richardson
Dean and Chancellor’s Professor of Law
University of California, Irvine

Terry Skolnik
Visiting Research Fellow – Academy for Justice and Center for Constitutional Design, Associate Professor, Co-Director – Public Law Centre; Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section
Arizona State University and University of Ottawa

Christopher Slobogin
Milton Underwood Professor of Law, Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry, and Director of the Criminal Justice Program
Vanderbilt University

Jenia I. Turner
Amy Abboud Ware Centennial Professor in Criminal Law
Southern Methodist University
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