Daniel Harawa

Senior Advisor

Daniel Harawa is a Senior Advisor at the Policing Project and a Professor of Clinical Law and Director of the Federal Appellate Clinic at NYU School of Law. His scholarship focuses on race and the criminal legal system, contemplating how to limit the influence of race in the criminal legal process, and interrogating the racial justice implications of criminal law reform proposals. Daniel's scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, California Law Review (twice), Georgetown Law Journal, Washington University Law Review, and Minnesota Law Review, among other journals. Daniel also regularly provides commentary on pressing criminal justice and civil rights issues, with his popular writings appearing in the Washington Post, Politico, Slate, Inquest, and SCOTUSblog.

Prior to joining NYU, Daniel was an Associate Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, where he directed the Appellate Clinic. Before that, Daniel was Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, and an Appellate Staff Attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Daniel began his legal career clerking for the Honorable Roger L. Gregory of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit