Jennifer E. Laurin
- George R. Killam, Jr. Chair of Criminal Law
- Professor
Jennifer Laurin studies and writes about how law and institutional design shape the functioning of criminal justice institutions. Her scholarship has considered the role of constitutional litigation in regulating police, the shared roles of courts, police, and lawyers in regulating forensic science, and oversight of indigent defense. Professor Laurin currently serves as a reporter to the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Standards Task Force and is a co-author of “Police Misconduct: Law and Litigation," the leading treatise in that area of civil rights litigation.
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Justice in Wonderland
Jennifer Laurin joined the faculty of the University of Texas School of Law in 2009. Professor Laurin studies and writes about how law and institutional design shape the functioning of criminal justice institutions. Her scholarship has considered, the role of constitutional litigation in regulating police, the shared roles of courts, police, and lawyers in regulating forensic science, and oversight of indigent defense. Professor Laurin is a co-author (with Michael Avery, David Rudovsky, and Karen Blum) of Police Misconduct: Law and Litigation, the leading treatise in that area of civil rights litigation.
Professor Laurin is active in criminal justice law reform efforts. She currently serves as Reporter to the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Standards Task Force charged with updating the 1996 3rd Edition Discovery Standards, and she is the former Chair of the Texas Capital Punishment Assessment team, organized under the auspices of the American Bar Association.
Professor Laurin received her undergraduate degree in Politics from Earlham College. She earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was an Executive Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review. She served as a law clerk to Judge Thomas Griesa of the Southern District of New York and Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and spent several years as a litigation associate with the New York City civil rights firm of Neufeld Scheck & Brustin, LLP (formerly Cochran Neufeld & Scheck, LLP).
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year-2011
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Book Chapter
Prosecutorial Exceptionalism, Remedial Skepticism, and the Legacy of Connick v. Thompson
Jennifer E. Laurin, Prosecutorial Exceptionalism, Remedial Skepticism, and the Legacy of Connick v. Thompson, in Civil Rights Litigation and Attorney Fees Annual Handbook, Vol. 27 at 29 (Steven Saltzman, ed., St. Paul: West, 2011).
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Article
Trawling for Herring: Lessons in Doctrinal Borrowing and Convergence
Jennifer E. Laurin, Trawling for Herring: Lessons in Doctrinal Borrowing and Convergence, 111 Columbia Law Review 670 (2011). View Article -
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New Perspectives on Brady and Other Disclosure Obligations: Report of the Working Groups on Best Practices
Jennifer E. Laurin, New Perspectives on Brady and Other Disclosure Obligations: Report of the Working Groups on Best Practices [Symposium: New Perspectives on Brady and Other Disclosure Obligations: What Really Works?], 31 Cardozo Law Review 1961 (2011) (with Stephanos Bibas et al.). View Article
year-2010
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Other Activity
Op Ed: Legislature Should Affirm Forensic Commission's Investigative Authority
Jennifer E. Laurin. “Op Ed: Legislature Should Affirm Forensic Commission's Investigative Authority” (July 30, 2010). View online. -
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Rights Translation and Remedial Disequilibration in Constitutional Criminal Procedure
Jennifer E. Laurin, Rights Translation and Remedial Disequilibration in Constitutional Criminal Procedure, 110 Columbia Law Review 1002 (2010).