Justin P. Brooks 
Executive Director, Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy
Institute Professor
Director, LL.M. in Trial Advocacy
Project Director, Innocence Projects
LL.M. Georgetown University [advocacy]
J.D. American University
B.B.A. Temple University [business law]
Courses Taught: California Innocence Project I & II, Comparative & International Criminal Procedure, LL.M. Federal Criminal Practice, LL.M. Federal Sentencing, Criminal Procedure and Criminal Law, Wrongful Convictions Seminar
Named as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California by The Los Angeles Daily Journal, and one of the top criminal defense attorneys and legal educators in San Diego by The Daily Transcript, Professor Justin Brooks is the Director of the California Innocence Project, the Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy, and California Western’s LL.M. in Trial Advocacy Specializing in Federal Criminal Law. While teaching at California Western Professor Brooks has served as counsel on several high profile cases that have resulted in exonerations of inmates who were wrongfully convicted. Prior to coming to California, Professor Brooks practiced as a criminal defense attorney in Washington D.C., Michigan, and Illinois, where he represented inmates on death row and obtained the reversal of a death sentence. He began his teaching career as a professor at Georgetown Law Center. He also taught at Thomas Cooley and visited as a professor at Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, University of Sheffield (U.K.), South Texas College of Law’s Prague and Malta summer programs, and New England School of Law’s Galway summer program. He has published extensively on the death penalty, corrections and sentencing law, and other criminal law issues.
Selected Publications
- "The Hurricane Meets the Paper Chase: Innocence Projects New Emerging Role in Clinical Legal Education," 38 California Western Law Review 413 (co-authored with Stiglitz & Shulman) (2002).
- "The Politics of Prisons," 77 Michigan Bar Journal 154 (1998).
- "Will Boys Just be "Boyz N the Hood"? African-American Directors Portray a Crumbling Justice System in Urban America," 22 Oklahoma City University Law Review 1 (1997).
- "Justice For Sale: Is a Death Row Inmate Entitled to Discovery After the Judge Who Presided at Trial is Convicted of Taking Bribes to Fix Cases," 7 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 433 (1997).
- "How Can We Sleep While the Beds Are Burning? The Tumultuous Prison Culture of Attica Flourishes in American Prisons Twenty-Five Years Later," 45 Syracuse Law Review 159 (1996). Reprinted in Prisoners and the Law (Ira Robbins).
- "The Dire Wolf Collects his Due While the Boys Sit by the Fire: Michigan Cannot Afford to Buy into the Death Penalty," 13 Thomas M. Cooley Law Review 877 (co-authored with Erickson) (1996).
Class Webpages
Links
Professor Brooks' Media Appearances - 2005, 2006, 2007 |
jbrooks@cwsl.edu
619-525-7079
350 Cedar Street
San Diego, CA 92101
Publications
Class Webpages
Links
Listen to Prof. Brooks on the CWSL Podcast
|
