 
| Josh Bowers Associate Professor of Law J.D., New York University School of Law, 2001 B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1995 Josh Bowers joined the law faculty in 2008 as an associate professor of law after two years as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. Bowers graduated order of the coif from New York University School of Law, where he was a notes editor of the Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Judge Dennis Jacobs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Next, he worked an associate at Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Silberberg, P.C., a boutique white-collar criminal defense firm in New York City. After that, he spent three years as a criminal defense attorney for the Bronx Defenders, a community-based public defender organization. Bowers’ research and teaching interests include criminal law, criminal justice and criminal procedure. Specifically, he explores on-the-ground enforcement of criminal law, which is shaped not solely by what happens at trial and on appeal, but by the decisions made and the actions taken within communities, police precincts and courthouses. He focuses on the often competing (but sometimes harmonious) incentives of various institutional actors in the criminal justice system, concentrating particularly on underappreciated differences in the way these actors approach low-stakes and high-stakes cases. | |
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PublicationsPublications:
"Disposables: The Charging and Adjudication of Order-Maintenance Offenses" (work in progress)
"The Unusual Man in the Usual Place," 157 U. Pa. L. Rev. Pennumbra 260 (2009).
"Accuracy and Legitimacy," in Criminal Law Conversations (Paul Robinson, Kim Ferzan & Stephen Garvey, eds.) (Oxford Press, forthcoming 2009)
"Grand Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Charging Decision," in Criminal Law Conversations (Paul Robinson, Kim Ferzan & Stephen Garvey, eds.) (Oxford Press, forthcoming 2009)
"Punishing the Innocent," 156 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1117 (2008)
"Contraindicated Drug Courts," 55 UCLA L. Rev. 783 (2008)
"Grassroots Plea Bargaining," 91 Marq. L. Rev. 85 (2007)
"The Integrity of the Game is Everything: Geographic Disparity in Three Strikes," 76 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1164 (2001) (note)
Presentations and Testimony:
Testimony before NACDL Task Force on Drug Courts, Washington D.C., January 2009
"A Synopsis of Kevin Kordana's Principal Arguments," Law Faculty Retreat, University of Virginia Law School, January 2009
"Contraindicated Drug Courts," Crime & Punishment Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, April 2008
"Contraindicated Drug Courts," Works in Progress Seminar, University of Chicago Law School, September 2007
"Contraindicated Drug Courts," NEPOC Annual Conference, Southern New England School of Law, September 2007
"Grassroots Plea Bargaining," Conference on Plea Bargaining, Marquette University Law School, April 2007
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