Senior Fellows
Under the leadership of Professor James Jacobs, the Center has sponsored a steady stream of Senior Fellows. The first was Jeremy Travis (’82), who spent a year at the Center researching the subject of victim’s rights; Travis went on to be counsel to the police commissioner and deputy commissioner in charge of the legal division; he is now Director of the National Institute of Justice. Another early fellow was David Wasserman, whose research culminated in the publication of A Sword For the Convicted: Representing Indigent Defendants on Appeal (Greenwood Press 1990). Lynn Zimmer twice was a summer fellow and under Center sponsorship carried out pathbreaking research on the NYPD’s drug sweeps ("Operation Pressure Point") on the lower east side. Hamilton College political science professor, Frank Anechiarico’s research, conducted collaboratively with Professor Jacobs during Anechiarico’s time as a Center Fellow, was published as a book, The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective (University of Chicago Press, Fall 1996). Kimberly Potter collaborated with Professor Jacobs on Hate Crime: Criminal Law and Identity Politics (Oxford University Press 1998). The 2004-2005 senior research fellow is Jenny Roberts and the junior research fellow is David Sacks.