Dr. Maria Ponomarenko

Biography

Maria Ponomarenko teaches and writes on administrative law, local government law, constitutional law, and criminal procedure. Her research focuses on how government agencies operate within the traditional realms of administrative law scholarship. In addition to her teaching at Texas Law, she is a co-founder and counsel of the Policing Project at NYU School of Law, an organization that collaborates with policing agencies and community groups to promote effective police governance. Professor Ponomarenko has published articles in leading journals including the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, New York University Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Northwestern Law Review. She has served as an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute's Principles of Law: Policing project. Professor Ponomarenko earned her J.D. summa cum laude from New York University School of Law, her Ph.D. in History from Stanford University, and both her M.A. in Social Sciences and B.A. in History and Economics from the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty at the University of Texas, she was an associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School, where she received the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year award in 2021.

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