Seth Stoughton

Biography

Seth Stoughton's principal areas of study are criminal law and the regulation of law enforcement, with particular attention on the role of subconstitutional police constraints and on the interplay between legislative and judicial decision-making and law enforcement practice. Seth earned his B.A. in English from Florida State University. Prior to law school, Seth served as a municipal police officer for almost five years and a state investigator for just under three. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an Articles Editor on the Virginia Law Review, was selected by the faculty to receive the Thomas Marshall Miller Award, and was an Elsie Hughes Cabell Scholar. After law school, Seth clerked for the Honorable Kenneth F. Ripple of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.