Joshua Tepfer

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-6298
E-mail: j-tepfer@law.northwestern.edu

Josh Tepfer joined the Bluhm Legal Clinic as a Visiting Clinical Professor in 2008. He co-teaches a clinical course with the Center on Wrongful Convictions. He is also the Principal Investigator for a pilot project -- The Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth. Prior to joining Northwestern, Josh worked as a public defender with the Illinois State Appellate Defender’s office in Chicago for four years.

Areas of Expertise

Juvenile Justice

Criminal Law and Procedure

Courses

Clinic Practice: Wrongful Convictions, Juvenile Justice

Selected Publications

Arresting Development: Convictions of Innocent Youth in 62 rutgers law review 887-941 (2010). (with Laura H. Nirider, and Lynda M. Tricarico)
Arresting Development: Convictions of Innocent Youth in 62 rutgers law review 887 (2010). (with Laura H. Nirider, and Lynda M. Tricarico )
Untrue Confessions: Why Confess to a Crime You Didn’t Commit? in playboy (November 2009).

Education

BA, Grinnell College
JD, University of Minnesota Law School


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