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
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
Henry F. Fradella
Professor and Associate Director, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Arizona State University
Aya Gruber
Professor of Law
University of Colorado
Kristin Henning
Agnes N. Williams Research Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative
Georgetown 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
Alexandra Natapoff
Lee S. Kreindler Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Julie Rose O’Sullivan
Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Michael Serota
Senior Research Fellow – Academy for Justice, Associate Professor of Law, Director of Criminal Justice Reform Lab
Loyola Law School
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
Stephen F. Smith
Professor of Law
University of Notre Dame
Robert Weisberg
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center
Stanford University
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