Lara Bazelon

rdf:langString Lara Bazelon

rdf:langString Lara Bazelon

rdf:langString Lara Bazelon

rdf:langString Columbia University , NYU School of Law

rdf:langString Bazelon photographed in a garden in November 2015

rdf:langString Bazelon in 2015

rdf:langString Law professor, journalist, essayist

rdf:langString Barnett Chair in Trial Advocacy

rdf:langString Lara Bazelon (born February 14, 1974) is an American academic and journalist. She is a law professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law where she holds the Barnett Chair in Trial Advocacy and directs the Criminal & Juvenile and Racial Justice Clinics. She is the former director of the Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent in Los Angeles. Her clinical work as a law professor focuses on the exoneration of the wrongfully convicted. Her writing about the criminal justice system and critiques of its most prominent players has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Slate, and Politico Magazine. Her personal essays about love, divorce, and parenting have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Slate. She is also the author of two nonfiction books: Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction (Beacon Press 2018) and Ambitious Like a Mother: Why Prioritizing Your Career is Good For Your Kids (Little Brown 2022), and the author of the novel A Good Mother (Hanover Sq. Press 2021).

rdf:langString Slate

rdf:langString The Atlantic

rdf:langString The New York Times