Alexandra Harrington

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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, Juvenile Justice, Prisoners’ Rights, Sentencing and Parole

Links: Curriculum Vitae, SSRN

Contact Information

527 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-2108
aharr@buffalo.edu

Biography Publications

Articles

Racially Disparate and Disproportionate Punishment of Felony Murder: Evidence from New York (with Guyora Binder), 110 IOWA LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 2025).

Second Look Myopia: State Sentencing Reform and the Local Prosecutorial Response, JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY (forthcoming 2025).

The Constitutionalization of Parole: Fulfilling the Promise of Meaningful Review, 106 CORNELL LAW REVIEW 1173 (2021).

Reports

TIME-IN-CELL: A 2019 SNAPSHOT OF RESTRICTIVE HOUSING BASED ON NATIONWIDE SURVEYS OF U.S. CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES (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

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-lead author).