Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law

CONTACT
bowers@virginia.edu
(434) 924-3771
Room WB175B

ASSISTANT
Pennie Newell

SUBJECTS
Criminal procedure, criminal law, criminal justice theory, misdemeanor enforcement and adjudication, plea bargaining, police and prosecutorial discretion, right to counsel, juries, drug treatment courts, police and society, constitutional law

C.V.

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. His primary teaching and research interests are in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal justice theory, and constitutional law. Bowers has written numerous articles, essays, and book chapters on police and prosecutorial discretion, plea bargaining, misdemeanor enforcement and adjudication, drug courts, grand juries, and the right to counsel. His work has been published in several books and journals, including the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and the UCLA Law Review.

Bowers attended New York University School of Law, where he was a notes editor of the New York University Law Review and graduated Order of the Coif. After law school, he clerked for Judge Dennis Jacobs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He practiced law as an associate for Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Silberberg P.C., a boutique white-collar criminal defense firm, and also as a staff attorney for the Bronx Defenders, a community-based public defender organization. From 2006-2008, he was a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School.

Publications
Current Courses

In the Media

"Barack Obama Says Sequester Could Force Prosecutors to 'Let Criminals Go'" (PolitiFact, 02/22/2013)
"Can Juries Tame Prosecutors Gone Wild?" (Boston Globe, 02/03/2013)
"A Real-Life Grisham Story" (ABA Journal, 06/01/2011)
"Juries Can't Escape Life-Without-Parole Sentencing" (Charlottesville Daily Progress, 05/28/2011)
"New Charges in Yeardley Love Case Could Give Prosecutors More Flexibility" (Baltimore Sun, 01/10/2011)
"Huguely Waives Right to Court Appearance" (NBC29, 01/10/2011)
"Slumlord Lawrence Might Serve Sentence in One of His Blighted Properties" (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 11/06/2009)
"Jury Trial Rate at All-Time Low in Va." (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 10/18/2009)
"Competency Hearing Set for Whitlock" (NBC29, 06/12/2009)