Event Description
Tracey Meares is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Meares’ interdisciplinary research focuses on criminal procedure and criminal law policy, specifically crime prevention, community capacity building, police legitimacy, and legal policy. She has published widely on these topics. Additionally, Professor Meares has worked extensively with the federal government, having been appointed by President Obama to the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing as well as by Attorney General Holder to the Office of Justice Program’s Science Advisory Board. She also co-directs the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School, which has a pivotal role in the National Initiative for Building Community Trust, a federal initiative designed to improve relationships and increase trust between communities and the criminal justice system. Prior to her career in academia, Professor Meares clerked for the Honorable Harlington Wood, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and worked as a Trial Attorney in the Attorney General’s Honors Program for the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice. |
