Alexandra Harrington
Associate Professor of Law; Director of the Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic; Director of the Innocence and Justice Project
Research Focus: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Law, Sentencing, Parole, Second Look, Prisoners’ Rights
Links: Curriculum Vitae, SSRN
Contact Information
527 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-2108
aharr@buffalo.edu
Articles
Broken Record: Revisiting the Crime in the Context of a Second Look, forthcoming 61 RICHMOND L. REV. ___ (2027)
Second Look Myopia: State Sentencing Reform and the Local Prosecutorial Response, 114 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 827-878 (2025)
Racially Disparate and Disproportionate Punishment of Felony Murder: Evidence from New York, 110 IOWA L. REV. 1055-1139 (2025) (with Guyora Binder)
The Constitutionalization of Parole: Fulfilling the Promise of Meaningful Review, 106 CORNELL L. REV. 1173-1254 (2021)
Reports
TIME-IN-CELL 2019: A SNAPSHOT OF RESTRICTIVE HOUSING BASED ON A NATIONWIDE SURVEY OF U.S. PRISON SYSTEM (with Judith Resnik, et al.) (2020)
REFORMING RESTRICTIVE HOUSING: THE 2018 ASCA-LIMAN NATIONWIDE SURVEY OF TIME-IN-CELL (with Judith Resnik, et al.) (2018)
Amicus Briefs
Amicus Curiae Brief of the Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc., Et al., People v. Hudson (New York Court of Appeals 2025) (co-author)
Brief of Legal Scholars of Felony Murder and Constitutional Proportionality as Amicus Curiae Supporting Petitioner, Sellers v. State (Colorado Supreme Court, 2023) (No. 2022SC738) (co-author)