Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityAlbert Alschuler
Albert Alschuler joined the Northwestern Law faculty after serving as the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in spring 2005. He specializes in criminal justice and has written on topics including plea bargaining, sentencing reform, privacy, search and seizure, civil procedure, jury selection, legal history, legal ethics, confessions, courtroom conduct, William Blackstone, Oliver Wendell Holmes, American legal theory, and other topics, most of them in the area of criminal justice.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Criminal Law
COURSES
PUBLICATIONS
Recent Publications
- Two Ways toThink about the Punishment of Corporations
- Studying the Exclusionary Rule: An Empirical Classic , 75 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW 1365-1384, 2008
- From Blackstone to Holmes: The Revolt Against Natural Law, 36 PEPPERDINE LAW REVIEW 491, 2009
- Plea Bargaining and the Death Penalty , 58 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW 671-680, 2009
- The entry for Nicholas St. John Green, Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law 232-233, 2009
EDUCATION
- AB, Harvard University
- LLB, Harvard University
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS
- Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago
- Wilson-Dickinson Professor of Law, University of Chicago
- Professor of Law, University of Chicago
- Visiting Professor, Columbia University Law School
- Visiting Professor, Brooklyn Law School
- Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
- Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley
- Professor of Law, University of Colorado
- Visiting Professor, University of Michigan
- Professor of Law, University of Texas
- Associate Professor of Law, University of Texas
- Special Assistant to Hon. Fred M. Vinson, Jr., Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Criminal Division
- Fellow, Center for Studies in Criminal Justice, University of Chicago
- Law Clerk for Hon. Walter V. Schaefer, Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court
