Bennett Capers

Senior Technology Fellow

 

Professor Bennett Capers teaches Evidence, Criminal Law, and Criminal Procedure at Fordham Law School, where he is also the Director of the Center on Race, Law, and Justice.

Professor Capers' academic interests include the relationship between race, gender, technology, and criminal justice, and he is a prolific writer on these topics. In addition to co-editing the forthcoming Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and Law (Cambridge University Press) and Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions (Cambridge University Press), he also has a forthcoming book about prosecutors, The Prosecutor’s Turn (Metropolitan Books). His commentary and op-eds have appeared in The New York Times and other journals.

Prior to teaching, Professor Capers spent nearly ten years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. He also practiced with the firms of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Willkie Farr & Gallagher, and clerked for the Hon. John S. Martin, Jr. of the Southern District of New York. Professor Capers is a graduate of Princeton University, where he graduated cum laude and was awarded the Class of 1983 Prize, and of Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

Professor Capers is an elected member of the American Law Institute; a Director of Research for the Uniform Laws Commission; and has served as Chair of the AALS Criminal Justice Section and Chair of the AALS Law and Humanities Section. He has also served for several years as a Commissioner on the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board.

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