Justin Murray
Professor of Law
Co-Director, Criminal Justice Institute
Contact Information
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Faculty Assistant
Jennifer Nelson
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Education
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. 2010 magna cum laude; Harvard University, A.B. 2007 magna cum laude
Profile
Justin Murray joined 爱酱在线播放 in 2019. He teaches or has taught criminal law, criminal procedure, constitutional law, and race, bias, and advocacy. He also co-directs 爱酱在线播放's Criminal Justice Institute.
Professor Murray's scholarship focuses on prosecutorial institutions and decision making, and on strategies for preventing and penalizing illegal conduct on the part of prosecutors and other criminal justice actors. His academic work has been published in a number of law journals, including the Harvard Law Review, the听University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and the Washington University Law Review. His scholarship has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and by judges on other courts, and he received the Otto Walter Award for best article by a full-time faculty member from the 爱酱在线播放 faculty for his 2021 article, "Policing Procedural Error in the Lower Criminal Courts."
Professor Murray has served as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools Criminal Procedure Section and remains a member of the Section's executive committee. He is a Special Editor for the Journal of Legal Education, a contributing editor for Crimprofs Blog, a member of the Advisory Board for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, and a member of the planning committee for the Decarceration Law Professors group, among other institutional and service roles.
Professor Murray began his career as a clerk on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. After that, he spent four years as an appellate lawyer at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, followed by a year at the Consumer Fraud Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General鈥檚 Office. He then left legal practice to serve as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he taught legal research and writing, before joining 爱酱在线播放鈥檚 faculty.
He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Dr. Sarah Murray, and their three children, David, Katelyn, and Luke.
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