Charles J. Ogletree

Jesse Climenko Professor of Law

Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice

Research Interests

• Comparative Criminal Justice Systems
• Criminal Justice Administration
• Public Defender Systems
• Race and Criminal Justice
• Standards of Competence For Counsel

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Clinical Legal Education
• Comparative Criminal Justice Systems
• Criminal Justice Administration
• Criminal Law and Procedure
• Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
• Race and Criminal Justice

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Comparative Criminal Justice Systems
• Criminal Law
• Criminal Procedure (grand jury, indictment process)
• Death Penalty
• DNA Fingerprinting
• Faculty Expert on South Africa
• International Law
• Juvenile Justice
• Legal Ethics
• Public Defender
• Race and Criminal Justice
• Reparations

Education

• Stanford University B.A. (with distinction) 1974, Political Science
• Stanford University M.A. 1975, Political Science
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1978

Appointments

• Director, Saturday School Program
• Lecturer on Law, 1984
• Visiting Professor of Law from Practice, 1985
• Edward R. Johnston Lecturer on Law, 1989
• Assistant Professor of Law, 1989
• Director, Criminal Justice Institute, 1990
• Professor of Law, 1993
• Faculty Director, Clinical Programs, 1996
• Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, 1998
• Associate Dean for the Clinical Programs, 2002
• Vice Dean for Clinical Programs, 2003
• Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, 2004

Representative Publications

• From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America (Charles J. Ogletree & Austin Sarat eds., New York University Press 2006).
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• Ogletree, Charles J. All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education (W.W. Norton & Company 2004).
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• Brown at 50: The Unfinished Legacy (Deborah L. Rhode & Charles J. Ogletree eds., American Bar Association 2004).
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• Ogletree, Charles J. "The Rehnquist Revolution in Criminal Procedure" in The Rehnquist Court (Herman Schwartz ed., Hill and Wang Publishing, 2002).
  
• Ogletree, Charles J. "Beyond Justifications: Seeking Motivations to Sustain Public Defenders," 106 Harvard Law Review 1239 (1993).
  

Bibliography

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