Mary Fan is the Jack R. MacDonald Endowed Chair in Law at the University of Washington.[1] She also is a core faculty member at Harborview Medical Center's Injury Prevention and Research Center,[2] and part of the Firearms Injury and Policy Research Program team.[3] Fan also was the Herman Phleger Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School, where she taught criminal law, and a visiting scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the author of the book Camera Power: Policing, Proof, Privacy, and Audiovisual Big Data, published by Cambridge University Press,[4] and numerous articles.[5]
Fan was a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California.[6] She also served as an Associate Legal Officer at the United Nations-established International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).[7] She was a law clerk to Judge John T. Noonan Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[8] and to Judge O-Gon Kwon of the ICTY.
An elected member of the American Law Institute, Fan is an adviser to the Model Penal Code Sexual Assault and Related Offenses law reform project.[9] [10] Author of numerous articles in the areas of criminal law and procedure, crimmigration, evidence, and epidemiological criminology,[11] Fan also is the coauthor with Antonio Cassese, Guido Acquaviva, and Alex Whiting of International Law: Cases and Commentary (Oxford University Press 2011).[12]
Fan received her JD at Yale Law School where she won the Jewell Prize and the Nathan Burkan Prize for her publications.[13] [14] She obtained her MPhil at the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.[15] She obtained degrees in political science and journalism as a Flinn Scholar at the University of Arizona.[16] [17]