My responsibility as an educator is not only to my students or my institution, but also to our shared democratic society. For this reason, I design my classrooms as spaces where students can experiment with new ways to think, act and react in their broader social lives. And, as we increasingly question the merits and structure of the criminal legal system, I prepare my students to enter these debates with evidence, effort and empathy.
Undergraduate
I have been awarded two competitive undergraduate-level lectureships at the University of Chicago. Through the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, I offered a course on constitutional rights to liberty and due process in the context of the Chicago police torture scandal (syllabus here). I have also taught a Robert Park Lectureship introducing undergraduates to criminal legal research using mixed-methods (syllabus here). I have additional experience teaching sociological theory, classical European philosophy and public policy.
Graduate
Graduate students in “Democracy, Race and Equal Protection” integrate dominant legal understandings of equal protection, on one hand, with influential theories of democratic legitimacy, on the other. The seminar is focused on the structural causes and democratic consequences of the failure of law enforcement to protect the lives of Black, Latinx and Indigenous people (syllabus here).
Hacking 4 Justice
Hacking 4 Justice is an intensive, hands-on workshop providing students with the technical skills and legal knowledge they need to make sense of public case-level datasets from the Cook County State’s Attorney. Participants come from all walks of life, but are united in their commitment to promoting direct, public accountability of criminal prosecution. This website offers more information. Specific content and code from the February 2020 Beginner Workshop can be found on GitHub.