Jeffrey Fagan

Jeffrey Fagan is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. His scholarship focuses on fairness and equity in the administration of justice. His research studies include race and criminal law, capital punishment, policing and police reform, firearm violence and regulation, and juvenile crime and punishment. He served on the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academy of Science from 2000-2006. He was an expert consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice in its 2015 investigation of the Ferguson (Missouri) Police Department, and the lead expert for plaintiffs in the 2013 civil rights trial on the New York City Stop and Frisk policy. He has testified before Congress on the deterrent effects of capital punishment, the American Law Institute on the future of the death penalty, and the National Research Council Committee on Deterrence and the Death Penalty. He served as an expert witness on capital punishment to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2010-2016, and testified on capital punishment before the Constitutional Court of Indonesia in 2007. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology.

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