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John Rappaport
Birth Name:John Michael Rappaport[1]
Birth Date:10 July 1980
Education:Stanford University (BS)
Harvard University (JD)
Employer:University of Chicago Law School
Known For:Criminal procedure, evidence law

John Rappaport (born July 10, 1980) is an American legal scholar who is currently a professor of law and the Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School. He is an expert on criminal procedure and evidence law.[2] [3]

Education and career

Rappaport graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics with distinction in 2002. In 2006, he graduated with a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.[2]

After graduating from law school, Rappaport worked as a law clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In 2004, he was a Legal Intern for the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Educational Opportunities Section and a Legal Intern for the ACLU of Michigan. In 2005, he was a Legal Intern for the ACLU of New York.[4] From 2007 to 2010, he worked in the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles, California. From 2009 to 2010, he worked as a law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court of the United States. Between 2010 and 2012, he worked as a litigation associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles. After this role, he worked as a law clerk for Judge Paul J. Watford for six months.[2]

In 2015, Rappaport joined the University of Chicago Law School faculty as an assistant professor, having served as a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow and a lecturer between 2013 and 2015. He became a tenured professor in 2020. His teaching and research interests include criminal procedure and the criminal justice system, with a focus on police misconduct and evidence.[3] [5]

Selected publications

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: John Rappaport | University of Chicago Law School .
  2. Web site: John Rappaport University of Chicago Law School . www.law.uchicago.edu . en.
  3. Web site: John Rappaport is an expert in criminal procedure, policing, and criminal justice University of Chicago News . www.news.uchicago.edu . February 23, 2021 . en.
  4. Web site: John Rappaport | University of Chicago Law School .
  5. See, e.g., Ben Grunwald & John Rappaport, The Wandering Officer, 129 Yale Law Journal 1676 (2020).
  6. Web site: Some Doubts About "Democratizing" Criminal Justice | The University of Chicago Law Review. lawreview.uchicago.edu. March 27, 2023.