Soros Justice Fellowships

The George Washington University

Paul Butler, a former prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice and a leading scholar on criminal justice and civil rights issues, will write The Future of Justice: The Radical Transformation of Crime and Punishment in America. Intended to educate the public, policymakers, and activists about strategies to promote public safety as well as fairness in the criminal justice system, the book will explore how technology and new theories on human behavior will change criminal justice in the United States, and will recommend ways that activists can use new scientific and theoretical advances to reduce the prison population and end racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

Butler is a law professor at The George Washington University. He teaches in the areas of criminal law, civil rights, and jurisprudence. Butler is one of the nation’s leading scholars on criminal justice and civil right issues; his scholarship has been published in major academic journals including the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, and Stanford Law Review. Butler has also published several book chapters and numerous magazine and newspaper articles. His work on jury nullification is well known and has been widely profiled, including on the ABC, CBS, and NBC Evening News, Nightline, and 60 Minutes. Butler lectures regularly about criminal justice and civil rights for the American Bar Association and the NAACP, as well as at universities, community organizations, and legal and judicial conferences around the world. Prior to joining the academy, he was a prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice. He graduated cum laude from Yale College and received his JD cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Washington, DC |  One Year |