Dr. Jeffrey Fagan

Biography

Jeffrey Fagan is the Isidor Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and a Professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. His scholarship focuses on the fairness and accuracy of the administration of criminal justice and public policy. Fagan's research examines key issues including race in criminal law, policing and police reform, legitimacy in criminal law, capital punishment, and firearm violence regulation as well as drug policy and juvenile crime punishment. He has served on the Committee on Law and Justice at the National Academy of Sciences from 2000 to 2006 and was a member of a 2004 National Research Council panel that examined policing in the United States. Fagan was also an expert consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice during its investigation of the Ferguson Police Department in Missouri. He acted as the lead expert witness for the plaintiffs in the civil rights trial concerning New York City’s Stop and Frisk policy and served as an expert witness for the Constitutional Court in Indonesia on capital punishment issues. Additionally, Fagan was an expert consultant and witness on capital punishment for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2010 to 2016 and is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology.

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