 | Tracey L. Meares |
Tracey L. Meares, the newly designated Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law,
is a scholar of criminal law policy and criminal procedure whose work is aimed
at reducing crime.
T H I S
IN MEMORIAM
Meares appointed Walton
Hale Hamilton Professor
Also a distinguished commentator on race, crime and the law, Meares has been
a member of the Yale Law School faculty since January 2007. At the time of
her appointment, Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh said of Meares: “Using
empirical methods and social psychology, she has emerged as that rare criminal
law and procedure scholar who focuses on crime prevention, by applying a civil
society approach to law enforcement that builds upon the interaction between
law, culture, social norms and social organization.”
Meares is the author of “Urgent Times: Policing and Rights in Inner City
Communities” (with Yale Law School professor Dan Kahan) and a forthcoming
Foundation Press casebook titled “Criminal Law and Its Administration” (with
Kahan and Neal Katyal). In her many articles, she has explored such topics
as the cooperation between the black church and the police in Chicago, community
policing, race and class differences toward drug legalization and law enforcement,
punishment in minority communities and mass incarceration, among others. She
is currently working on a project examining majority and minority community
perspectives on law and legal authorities.
Meares came to Yale from the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught
since 1994 and served as the Max Pam Professor of Law and director of the Center
for Studies in Criminal Justice. During some of her time there, she held a
joint appointment with the American Bar Foundation, where she was a senior
research fellow. She previously served as a visiting professor at the Columbia
University Law School and the University of Michigan Law School. Earlier in
her career, she was a trial attorney in the attorney general’s Honor
Program in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She served
as a judicial law clerk in the early 1990s to Judge Harlington Wood Jr. of
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. She holds a B.S. in general
engineering from the University of Illinois and her J.D. from the University
of Chicago Law School.
Meares has been a faculty affiliate of the University of Chicago Center for
the Study of Race, Politics and Culture and is also a former member of the
executive committee of the Joint Center for Poverty Research at Northwestern
University/University of Chicago.
In recognition of her scholarly work, Meares was recently elected to the American
Law Institute.
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