John Rappaport (born July 10, 1980) is an American legal scholar who is currently a professor of law and the Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar at the

University of Chicago Law School The University of Chicago Law School is the law school of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. It is consistently ranked among the best and most prestigious law schools in the world, and has many dist ...

. He is an expert on

criminal procedure Criminal procedure is the adjudication process of the criminal law. While criminal procedure differs dramatically by jurisdiction, the process generally begins with a formal criminal charge with the person on trial either being free on bail or ...

and

evidence law The law of evidence, also known as the rules of evidence, encompasses the rules and legal principles that govern the proof of facts in a legal proceeding. These rules determine what evidence must or must not be considered by the trier of fa ...

Education and career

Rappaport graduated from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

with a

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mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

with distinction in 2002. In 2006, he graduated with a

Juris Doctor The Juris Doctor (J.D. or JD), also known as Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D., JD, D.Jur., or DJur), is a graduate-entry professional degree in law and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...

''magna cum laude'' from

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ...

. After graduating from law school, Rappaport worked as a

law clerk A law clerk or a judicial clerk is a person, generally someone who provides direct counsel and assistance to a lawyer or judge by researching issues and drafting legal opinions for cases before the court. Judicial clerks often play significant ...

for Judge

Stephen Reinhardt Stephen Roy Reinhardt (born Stephen Roy Shapiro; March 27, 1931 – March 29, 2018) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with chambers in Los Angeles, California. He was the last federal a ...

on the

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. From 2007 to 2010, he worked in the Office of the Federal Public Defender in

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. From 2009 to 2010, he worked as a law clerk for Justice

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( ; ; March 15, 1933September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President ...

on the

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. Between 2010 and 2012, he worked as a litigation associate at

Munger, Tolles & Olson Munger, Tolles, & Olson LLP (MTO) is a Californian law firm with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Charles Munger founded the firm in 1962 along with six other attorneys. Legal practice Munger, Tolles & Olson is know ...

in Los Angeles. After this role, he worked as a law clerk for Judge

Paul J. Watford Paul Jeffrey Watford (born August 25, 1967) is an American lawyer serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 2012. In February 2016, ''The New York Times'' identified Watford as a po ...

for six months. In 2015, Rappaport joined the

faculty as an assistant professor, having served as a

Harry A. Bigelow Harry Augustus Bigelow (September 22, 1874January 8, 1950) was an American lawyer. A Harvard graduate, he worked in private practice in Hawaii before being chosen as one of the first faculty members of the University of Chicago Law School in 190 ...

Teaching Fellow and a lecturer between 2013 and 2015. He became a

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professor in 2020. His teaching and research interests include criminal procedure and the criminal justice system, with a focus on police misconduct and evidence.

Selected publications

*''Some Doubts About “Democratizing” Criminal Justice'' (2020). https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/sites/lawreview.uchicago.edu/files/Rappaport_DemocratizingCriminalJustice_87UCLR711.pdf *''Criminal Law and the American Penal System (with

Andrew Manuel Crespo Andrew Manuel Crespo (born 1983) is an American legal scholar. Early life and education Crespo is of Puerto Rican descent and was raised in Monroe, New York. He graduated from Harvard College in 2005, and earned his degree in law at Harvard L ...

)'' (2022).

References

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Education and career

Selected publications

See also

References