Joshua Kleinfeld
Professor of Law
Phone
(312) 503-2824
SSRN Author Page | Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Related Links
Bator Award Profile
| Democracy and the Pandemic-TEDx
Assistant
Alyson Smith
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-1774
Assistant Email
alyson.smith@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Joshua Kleinfeld teaches and writes in three areas: legal and political philosophy; legislation and statutory interpretation; and criminal law and procedure. He has also practiced law in Northwestern's Juvenile Criminal Defense Clinic. He is a full professor with tenure at the Northwestern Pritzker School of the Law and (by courtesy) in Northwestern’s philosophy department. In 2017-18, he was a visiting professor at Harvard and Stanford Law Schools. He is the recipient of the Bator Award, given annually to one American law professor under the age of 40 who has demonstrated "excellence in legal scholarship, a commitment to teaching, a concern for students, and who has made a significant public impact."
Areas of Expertise
- Political, Moral, and Legal Philosophy
- Corporate Criminal Law
- Jurisprudence
- Criminal Law and Procedure
- Legislation
Courses
Selected Publications
- Textual Rules in Criminal Statutes, 88 University of Chicago Law Review 1791 (2021).
- Manifesto of Democratic Criminal Justice, 111 Northwestern University Law Review 1367 (2017).
- Three Principles of Democratic Criminal Justice, 111 Northwestern University Law Review 1455 (2017).
- White Paper of Democratic Criminal Justice, 111 Northwestern University Law Review 1693 (2017) (with Janice Nadler, et al.).
- Reconstructivism: The Place of Criminal Law in Ethical Life, 129 Harvard Law Review 1485 (2016).
- Two Cultures of Punishment, 68 Stanford Law Review 933 (2016).
Education
- JD, Yale Law School
- PhD in Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt
- BA in Philosophy, Yale College
Prior Appointments
- Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
- Visiting Professor, Stanford Law School
- Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton
- Law Clerk, Hon. J. Harvie Wilkinson III, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Law Clerk, Hon. Janice Rogers Brown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
- Law Clerk (summer), Hon. Aharon Barak, President (Chief Justice), Supreme Court of Israel
- Senior Research Analyst, The President's Council on Bioethics