Carol Steiker is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Professor Steiker attended Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges and Harvard Law School, where she served as president of the Harvard Law Review. After clerking for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, she worked as a staff attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where she represented indigent defendants at all stages of the criminal process. She has been a member of the Harvard Law School faculty since 1992, and she served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1998-2001. Professor Steiker is the author of numerous scholarly articles in the fields of criminal law, criminal procedure, and capital punishment, and most recently served on the Board of Editors of the Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (2nd ed. Macmillan, 2002). She is currently at work on two book-length projects, one on the changing face of capital punishment in America and one on mercy and the institutions of criminal justice. In addition to her scholarly work, Professor Steiker has served as a consultant and an expert witness on issues of criminal justice for a number of non-profit organizations and federal and state legislatures.

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