Academic

William J. Stuntz, 1958?2011

By Lawrence Solum

William Stuntz was a leading criminal law scholar, much admired for his work and his humanity.  The Harvard Law School Press release begins:

William Stuntz, a renowned scholar of criminal justice at Harvard Law School, an evangelical Christian and a teacher much beloved by students and colleagues, died March 14 after a long battle with cancer.

Stuntz, 52, joined the HLS faculty in 2000 and was named the Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law in 2006. His influential scholarship over the past three decades addressed the full spectrum of issues related to criminal justice and procedure, from the overcrowding of prisons and racial disparities in incarceration to the appropriate role of faith, emotion and mercy in the penal system. He authored three dozen law review articles and essays on criminal law, and published articles and op-eds in the New York Times, Christianity Today, First Things, The New Republic and The Weekly Standard. This fall, the Harvard University Press will publish a book he authored on the collapse of the criminal justice system.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).