criminal law — ϲ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 16:03:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Lauryn P. Gouldin /faculty-experts/lauryn-p-gouldin/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:03:19 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=125816 Professor Lauryn Gouldin teaches constitutional criminal procedure, criminal law, evidence, constitutional law, and criminal justice reform. Her scholarship focuses on the Fourth Amendment, pretrial detention and bail reform, and judicial decision-making.

In 2015, in recognition of her excellence in teaching, Professor Gouldin was selected by the ϲ Meredith Professors to receive the Teaching Recognition Award. In 2014 and in 2015, the College of Law Student Bar Association honored Professor Gouldin with the Outstanding Faculty Award.

In 2017, the AALS Criminal Justice Section recognized her article, “Defining Flight Risk,” as the first runner-up in the Section’s Junior Scholars Paper Competition. In 2015, in recognition of her excellence in teaching, Gouldin was selected by the ϲ Meredith Professors to receive a Teaching Recognition Award. In 2014 and 2015, the College of Law Student Bar Association honored Gouldin with the Outstanding Faculty Award. At their commencement, the Class of 2018 awarded her the College of Law’s Res Ipsa Loquitur Award for outstanding service, scholarship, and stewardship.

Her research can be seen here,

 

]]> Todd A. Berger /faculty-experts/todd-a-berger/ Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:19:45 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=125314 Todd Berger is a Professor of Law and serving as Director of at the College of Law. Berger’s scholarship is concentrated in the areas of criminal law and procedure, as well as the intersection of trial advocacy and attorney ethics.

Under his direction, the College of Law’s Travis H.D. Lewin Advocacy Honor Society competition teams continues an impressive run of results on the regional and national scale. The program is in the top 15 Trial Advocacy program in the nation as ranked by US News & World Report and a top 15 program in the nation as ranked by the Trial Competition Performance Ranking. Professor Berger and students have grown the Advocacy program to create and host the ϲ National Trial Competition, the National Trial League, the Transatlantic Negotiation Competition, and the National Disability Law Appellate Competition.

Professor Berger is also the Faculty Director of the College’s Philadelphia Externship program, where he has placed externs in the legal departments of top Philadelphia-area companies, legal service organizations, and government agencies as well as in the chambers of leading members of the judiciary. He also served as the director of the College’s Criminal Defense Clinic from 2012-2019.

 

 

]]> Paula C. Johnson /faculty-experts/paula-c-johnson/ Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:53:01 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=125818 Paula C. Johnson is professor of law at ϲ College of Law. She currently serves as co-president of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), a national organization of approx. 800 law professors. At ϲ, she teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, voting rights, professional responsibility, and a seminar on women in the criminal justice system.

At ϲ, Prof. Johnson serves on a broad range of College of Law and University committees. She currently serves on the Chancellor’s Search Committee, and has served as co-chair of Sistaprof, an organization of Africana women professors at ϲ, and served as co-chair of the S.U. Senate’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Concerns Committee. Her public service includes membership on the boards of the Hiscock Legal Aid Society, the Center for Community Alternatives, and the Battered Women’s Justice Project National Advisory Committee.

In 2003, she received the Unsung Heroine Award from the ϲ Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards Committee, and the Woman of the Year Award from the ϲ African American Male Congress.

 

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