
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.

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

Paul G. Cassell
Ronald N. Boyce Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and University Distinguished Professor of Law
University of Utah

Brandon L. Garrett
L. Neil Williams, Jr. Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for Science and Justice
Duke University

Nancy J. King
Lee S. & Charles A. Speir Professor of Law
Vanderbilt 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

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

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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