Criminal Law

Claudia Angelos, an authority on prisoners’ rights, is a member and past president of the board of the New York Civil Liberties Union, where she serves as general counsel and a national board and executive committee member of the American Civil Liberties Union. Angelos was a staff attorney at Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York and Greater Boston Legal Services before joining the NYU School of Law faculty in 1980. Angelos has supervised student litigation of more than 100 civil rights cases in federal trial and appellate courts in the Civil Rights Clinic, and also teaches the New York Civil Liberties and Racial Justice clinics. She is a board and executive committee member of the Clinical Legal Education Association and serves on the board of the Society of American Law Teachers. She was elected Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe College, earning a B.A. cum laude in 1971, and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1974.

Jennifer Arlen is one of the nation’s leading scholars on corporate liability, specializing in corporate crime, vicarious liability, and securities fraud. She also has written extensively on medical malpractice liability and experimental law and economics. Arlen is trained as both a lawyer and an economist. She received her B.A. in economics from Harvard College (1982, magna cum laude) and received her J.D. (1986, Order of the Coif) and Ph.D. in economics (1992) from New York University. Arlen is co-founder, a current director, and past president of the Society of Empirical Legal Studies; she helped organize the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in 2006-08. She also has twice been a member of the board of directors of the American Law and Economics Association (2006-09 and 1991-93), is the editor of the Empirical/Experimental series on the Social Science Research Network, and is a member of the editorial board of the International Review of Law and Economics. In addition, she has chaired the Law and Economics, Remedies, and Torts sections of the Association of American Law Schools. Prior to coming to NYU School of Law, Arlen was the Ivadelle and Theodore Johnson Professor of Law and Business at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and was a founding director of the USC Center in Law, Economics, and Organization. She teaches Corporations, Torts, and a colloquium on the economic analysis of law.

Rachel Barkow’s scholarship focuses on applying the lessons and theory of administrative and constitutional law to the administration of criminal justice. She has written more than 20 articles, recently joined the leading criminal law casebook as a co-author, and is recognized as one of the country’s leading experts on criminal law and policy. Barkow has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee; the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection; and the U.S. Sentencing Commission. In 2010, the Manhattan D.A.’s Office named Barkow as a member of its Conviction Integrity Policy Advisory Panel. Barkow has also presented her work to the National Association of Sentencing Commissions Conference, the Federal Judicial Center’s National Sentencing Policy Institute, and the Judicial Conference of the Courts of Appeals for the First and Seventh circuits. After graduating from Northwestern University (B.A. ’93), Barkow attended Harvard Law School (’96), where she won the Sears Prize. She served as a law clerk to Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the D.C. Circuit and Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court. Barkow was an associate at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel in Washington, D.C., before joining the NYU Law faculty.

Alina Das ’05 joined the NYU School of Law faculty in 2011. Das co-teaches the Immigrant Rights Clinic, a leading institution in local and national struggles for immigrant rights. She and her students represent immigrants and community organizations in litigation at the agency, federal court, and Supreme Court levels, and in immigrant rights campaigns at the local, state, and national levels. In addition to her teaching, Das engages in scholarship on deportation and detention issues, particularly at the intersection of immigration and criminal law. Prior to joining the Law School faculty, Das clerked for Judge Kermit V. Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In 2006, she received a Soros Justice Fellowship to work at the Immigrant Defense Project, where she engaged in strategic advocacy and litigation to address the immigration penalties associated with drug convictions and participation in alternatives to incarceration. She has co-taught the Immigrant Rights Clinic as a teaching fellow since 2008. Das graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in government from Harvard University, and graduated cum laude from NYU School of Law as a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar with a joint J.D. and M.P.A. from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service.

Harry First is a specialist in antitrust and business crime. He is the co-author of casebooks on antitrust (with John Flynn and Darren Bush) and regulated industries (with John Flynn). He has twice been a Fulbright Research Fellow in Japan and has taught antitrust as an adjunct professor at the University of Tokyo. First’s recent scholarly work has focused on various aspects of antitrust enforcement, including “The Case for Antitrust Civil Penalties” (Antitrust Law Journal, 2009) and “Modernizing State Antitrust Enforcement” (Antitrust Bulletin, 2009). Along with Andrew Gavil of Howard University School of Law, he is currently working on a book titled Microsoft and the Globalization of Antitrust Law: Competition Policy for the Twenty-First Century, to be published by MIT Press. First is also the author of a casebook on business crime and a recently published article, “Branch Office of the Prosecutor: The New Role of the Corporation in Business Crime Prosecutions” (North Carolina Law Review, 2010). He is a contributing editor of the Antitrust Law Journal, foreign antitrust editor of the Antitrust Bulletin, a member of the executive committee of the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar Association, and a member of the advisory board and a senior fellow of the American Antitrust Institute.

Barry Friedman is one of the country’s leading authorities on constitutional law and the federal courts. He publishes frequently in the nation’s leading law reviews and peer-edited publications, writing on law, politics, and history. He is the author of the widely recognized The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution (2009). Friedman also writes frequently in the popular press, including the New York Times, Salon, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and the New Republic. He serves as a litigator or litigation consultant on a variety of matters in the federal and state courts. Friedman teaches a wide range of courses including Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, and Criminal Procedure. He has been a visiting scholar and lecturer at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy; Groupe d’Etudes et de Recherches sur la Justice Constitutionnelle, Sciences Po Aix, in Aix-en-Provence, France; and the University of Hong Kong. Friedman graduated from the University of Chicago and received his law degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. He clerked for Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.

David Garland, widely considered one of the world’s leading sociologists of crime and punishment, joined the NYU School of Law faculty in 1997. Garland, who received his law degree with first class honors and a Ph.D. in socio-legal studies from the University of Edinburgh and a master’s in criminology from the University of Sheffield, is noted for his distinctive sociological approach to the study of legal institutions. He is the author of a series of award-winning books, including Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies (1985); Punishment and Modern Society: A Study of Social Theory (1990); The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (2001); and Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition (2010). Garland is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a fellow of the American Society of Criminology. He has also been a Davis Fellow at Princeton University’s History Department (1984-85) and a J. S. Guggenheim Fellow (2006-07). In 2009, he was the recipient of a doctorate honoris causa from the Free University of Brussels. In 2012, the American Society of Criminology awarded him the Edwin H. Sutherland Prize for outstanding contributions to theory and research.

One of the nation’s foremost experts on children’s rights and family law, Martin Guggenheim ’71 has taught at NYU School of Law, where he now co-directs the Family Defense Clinic, since 1973. From 1998 to 2002, he was director of Clinical and Advocacy Programs. Guggenheim has been an active litigator in the area of children and the law and has argued leading cases on juvenile delinquency and termination of parental rights in the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also a well-known scholar, having published more than 40 articles and book chapters, plus five books, including What’s Wrong with Children’s Rights (2005), on children and parents. His research has focused on adolescent abortion, First Amendment rights in schools, the role of counsel for children in court proceedings, and empirical research on child welfare practice, juvenile justice, and family law. As a student at NYU Law, he was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Scholar. After law school, Guggenheim worked at the Juvenile Rights Division of New York City’s Legal Aid Society and later for the Juvenile Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation.

Randy Hertz came to NYU School of Law in 1985 as one of the first to join the new clinical tenure track. A graduate of Stanford Law School, where he was the articles and symposium editor of the Law Review, he clerked for Robert F. Utter, chief justice of the Washington Supreme Court, and later worked at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where he handled criminal trials and appeals. Hertz is an editor-in-chief of NYU Law’s Clinical Law Review, the first scholarly journal to focus on clinical legal education and one of the few peer-edited law reviews in the country. Hertz regularly works pro bono on briefs in criminal appeals, including capital appeals and habeas corpus proceedings. He is the co-author of a two-volume book on habeas corpus that is regularly used by practicing lawyers and routinely cited by judges. And, together with University Professor Anthony Amsterdam and Law School Professor Martin Guggenheim, he wrote a trial manual on juvenile court practice that is the leading work for lawyers who handle juvenile delinquency or child protection cases. Hertz teaches the Juvenile Defender Clinic and Criminal Litigation.

James Jacobs holds a J.D. (1973) and a Ph.D. in sociology (1975) from the University of Chicago. He was a member of the Cornell Law School faculty from 1975-82, before moving to NYU School of Law. He teaches first-year criminal law and upper-year electives on criminal procedure, federal criminal law, and juvenile justice, as well as various specialized criminal justice–related seminars. Jacobs has published 15 books and more than 100 articles. His first book, Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society (1977), regarded as a penological classic, deals with the impact of gangs, public employee unionism, prisoners’ rights litigation, and other post–World War II phenomena on the social organization of the American prison. Five of his books, including his most recent (Breaking the Devil’s Pact: The Battle to Free the Teamsters from the Mob), deal with the government’s long-term campaign to eradicate organized crime. Among his other books are: Drunk Driving: An American Dilemma; Hate Crimes: Criminal Law & Identity Politics; The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity; and Can Gun Control Work? As a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, Jacobs will be working on a book about jurisprudential and policy issues related to the creation and use of criminal records.

Holly Maguigan teaches a criminal defense clinic and another on comparative criminal justice, as well as a seminar on global public-service lawyering and a course on evidence. She is an expert on the criminal trials of battered women. Her research and teaching are interdisciplinary. Of particular importance in her litigation and scholarship are the obstacles to fair trials experienced by people accused of crimes who are not part of the dominant culture. Maguigan is a member of the Family Violence Prevention Fund’s National Advisory Committee on Cultural Considerations in Domestic Violence Cases. She serves on the boards of directors of the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women, MADRE, and the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice. Maguigan is a past co-president of the Society of American Law Teachers, the largest membership organization of law professors in the United States.

Erin Murphy joined the NYU Law faculty in 2010. Her research focuses on the criminal justice system, with a particular emphasis on street crime, and explores issues related to technology, privacy, and state power. Murphy is a nationally recognized expert in forensic DNA typing, and is co-editor of the Modern Scientific Evidence treatise. Her article “Paradigms of Restraint,” published in the Duke Law Journal in 2008, won the AALS Criminal Justice Section award for best paper by a junior scholar, and her work has been cited by the Supreme Court. After serving as a trial and appellate attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia for five years, Murphy joined the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law faculty in 2005. She received her B.A. in comparative literature magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1995 and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1999, also magna cum laude. She clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Ronald Noble is currently on leave to serve as general counsel of Interpol. He previously served as assistant secretary of the Treasury for enforcement, then as Treasury’s first under secretary for enforcement. He oversaw the U.S. Secret Service; the U.S. Customs Service; the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; the Office of Foreign Assets Control; the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; and the Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture. Noble also provided law enforcement policy guidance to the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS. He began his public service career in Philadelphia, where he was an assistant U.S. attorney from 1984 to 1988. Noble was noted for his prosecution of major cases involving public corruption and drug trafficking. In Philadelphia, Noble also served as senior law clerk to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He received a B.A. in economics and business administration cum laude from the University of New Hampshire in 1979 and a J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1982. His major subject areas are evidence, federal criminal law, lawyering, money laundering, gun control, and gun rights.

A teacher of both criminal law and constitutional law at NYU School of Law, David Richards is the author of 17 books and numerous articles, and has developed influential arguments on gay rights and on the distorting impact of patriarchy on interpretation in law and religion. For the past 10 years, Richards has taught an interdisciplinary seminar on resisting injustice with developmental psychologist and NYU University Professor Carol Gilligan, which led to the publication of their book The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy’s Future (2008), as well as Richards’s The Sodomy Cases: Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas (2009) and his most recent book, Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law: Obama’s Challenge to Patriarchy’s Threat to Democracy (2010). A graduate of Harvard College (1966) and Harvard Law School (1971), Richards secured his D.Phil. in moral philosophy from Oxford University (studying with H. L. A. Hart and G. J. Warnock) in 1970. His doctoral dissertation, A Theory of Reasons for Action, was published by Oxford University Press in 1971.

Previously the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago Law School, Stephen Schulhofer is one of the nation’s most distinguished scholars of criminal justice. He has written more than 50 scholarly articles and six books, including the leading casebook in the field, and highly regarded, widely cited work on a range of criminal justice and national security topics. Schulhofer’s scholarship has been distinguished by his simultaneous engagement with doctrinal analysis, criminal justice policy, and his own original empirical work. He has written on counterterrorism, police interrogation, rape law, administrative searches, drug enforcement, indigent defense, sentencing reform, plea bargaining, battered spouse syndrome, and many other criminal justice matters. His current projects include analysis of national security secrecy, the right to privacy in electronic communications, and an empirical study of the impact of counterterrorism policing on immigrant communities in New York and London. Formerly, Schulhofer was Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He completed his B.A. at Princeton University and his J.D. at Harvard Law School, both summa cum laude. He then clerked for two years for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black.

A 1985 graduate of Harvard, with both a master’s in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government and a J.D. from the law school, Bryan Stevenson joined the clinical faculty at NYU School of Law in 1998. Stevenson has been representing capital defendants and death row prisoners in the Deep South since 1985, when he was a staff attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta. In 1989, he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit law organization that focuses on social justice and human rights in the context of criminal justice reform in the United States. He is still executive director and has recently challenged extreme sentences imposed on young children in several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Stevenson’s work has won him national acclaim, including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, the Olof Palme Prize for international human rights, and awards from the National Association of Public Interest Lawyers, the American College of Trial Lawyers, and the National Lawyers Guild. In 2006, NYU presented Stevenson with its Distinguished Teaching Award. He has also received honorary degrees from several universities, including Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Georgetown University Law Center.

Kim Taylor-Thompson teaches courses related to criminal law and community and criminal defense. Her teaching and scholarship focus on the impact of race and gender on public policy—particularly criminal and juvenile justice policy—and the need to prepare lawyers to meet the demands of practice in and on behalf of subordinated communities. In 2012, Taylor-Thompson received the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award. Taylor-Thompson has recently returned from leave, having served for three years as the chief executive officer of Duke Corporate Education, ranked by Financial Times as the number one global provider of customized executive education. She worked with Fortune 500 companies and governments and taught in numerous programs focusing on translating and executing strategy and leading in complex environments. Prior to joining NYU School of Law, Taylor-Thompson was an associate professor of law at Stanford, where she received the John Hurlburt Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Outstanding Teaching Award. Before academia, Taylor-Thompson spent a decade at the D.C. Public Defender Service, ultimately serving as its director. She is a frequent moderator of Socratic dialogues at academic conferences. Taylor-Thompson received her J.D. from Yale Law School and her B.A. from Brown University.