Maria Ponomarenko

Co-Founder and Counsel

   ponomarenko@law.utexas.edu

  @m_ponomarenko

Maria is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. She co-founded the Policing Project with Barry Friedman, and continues to work with the Policing Project on issues of front-end accountability.

Maria teaches and writes in the areas administrative law, constitutional law, and criminal procedure. Her work focuses in particular on government agencies—such as policing agencies or other local regulatory agencies—that operate in domains that fall beyond the reach of traditional administrative law and scholarship.She also is an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law: Policing.

Maria graduated summa cum laude from NYU Law, where she won numerous prizes and fellowships, including the Furman Academic Scholarship, the Robert B. McKay Prize in constitutional law, and the Maurice Goodman Memorial Prize for overall achievement. She also served as an Articles Editor on the NYU Law Review. After graduating from NYU, she clerked for the Honorable Richard A. Posner on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Maria holds a B.A. in History and Economics and an M.A. in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in History from Stanford University.