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
PUBLICATIONS
Recent Publications
- The Upside and Downside of Police Hunches and Expertise, JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS & POLICY, 2007
- Teaching Intelligent Design Is Not Teaching Religion in Issues on Trial: Education, Issues on Trial: Education, 2008
- A Place for Mercy in Doing Justice to Mercy: Religion, Law and Criminal Justice, 2007
- Welsh White: Dedicated Scholar, Devoted Colleague, and Dear Friend, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH LAW REVIEW , 2006
- The Mail Fraud & Rico Racket: Thoughts on the Trial of George Ryan, GREEN BAG, 2006
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
