Tracey Meares

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Tracey L. Meares
Tracey Meares November 2015.jpg
Meares in 2015
NationalityAmerican
OccupationLegal scholar, author
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (B.S.)
University of Chicago Law School (J.D.)
Academic work
InstitutionsYale Law School
University of Chicago Law School
Main interestscriminal procedure and criminal law policy
Notable worksThe coming crisis of criminal procedure, 1998.

Tracey L. Meares is an American legal scholar and author. She is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Previous to joining the Yale Law School faculty, she was Max Pam Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago Law School. At both Chicago and Yale, she was the first African-American woman to be granted tenure.[1]

Education[]

Meares holds a B.S. in general engineering from the University of Illinois in 1988, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1991.[2]

Career[]

Meares' first positions included a stint clerking for Harlington Wood, Jr. when he was on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, as well as a position at the United States Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, where she was a trial attorney.[2] She taught at the University of Chicago Law School from 1995 to 2007, after which she joined Yale Law School as the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, a position she has held ever since. She also served as Yale Law School's Deputy Dean from 2009 to 2011.[3] As of 2021, she is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Criminology.[4]

Awards and positions[]

Meares has been a member of the National Research Council's , and was appointed by then-Attorney General Eric Holder to serve on the Office of Justice Programs' Science Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Joyce Foundation's Board of Directors.[3] In 2014, then-President Barack Obama appointed her to the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing when he created it by signing an executive order.[5][6] She was elected an American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow in 2019. [7]

References[]

  1. ^ "Tracey Meares". The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 2017-03-08.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Tracey L. Meares". Yale Law School.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Tracey Meares, '91, Appointed to Task Force on 21st Century Policing". Alumni News & Accolades. University of Chicago Law School. December 19, 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-01-10.
  4. ^ "Annual Review of Criminology, Current Editorial Committee". Annual Reviews. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  5. ^ "President Obama Announces Task Force on 21st Century Policing" (Press release). White House Office of the Press Secretary. 2014-12-18.
  6. ^ Martin Kaste (2018-04-04). "After Stephon Clark Shooting, Questions Remain About Police Use Of Force". NPR.
  7. ^ "2019 Fellows and International Honorary Members with their affiliations at the time of election". members.amacad.org. Archived from the original on 2020-03-02.

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