Visiting Professor of Law
J.D., Ph.D., Harvard

Biography

Alice Ristroph is visiting Georgetown from Seton Hall University School of Law. She teaches and writes in the fields of criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and political theory. She is particularly interested in the relationship between punishment theory and criminal justice practice. Recently, she has been studying efforts to use law to reduce or regulate state violence. Her article on Thomas Hobbes and the right to resist punishment was selected for the 2008 Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop, and will appear in the California Law Review in 2009. She has also published in the Duke Law Journal, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, and the Green Bag. During the 2007-2008 academic year, Ristroph was a Faculty Fellow in Ethics at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University. She joined the Seton Hall faculty in 2008 after serving as Associate Professor at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law. Before she began law teaching, Ristroph was an associate in the litigation department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. She has a J.D. and Ph.D. in political theory from Harvard University.