Paul Butler
Professor of Law
B.A., Yale; J.D., Harvard
Professor Butler researches and teaches in the areas of criminal law, race relations law, and critical theory. His scholarship has been published in many leading...
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Professor Butler researches and teaches in the areas of criminal law, race relations law, and critical theory. His scholarship has been published in many leading scholarly journals, including the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review (two articles), the Stanford Law Review and the UCLA Law Review (three articles). He is the author of the widely reviewed “Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice,” which received the Harry Chapin Media award.
Professor Butler is one of the nation’s most frequently consulted scholars on issues of race and criminal justice. His scholarship has been the subject of much attention in the academic and popular media. His work has been profiled on 60 Minutes, Nightline, and The ABC, CBS and NBC Evening News, among other places. Professor Butler has written a column for The Legal Times and has published numerous op-ed articles and book reviews, including in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Daily Beast. He lectures regularly for the American Bar Association and the NAACP, and at universities and community organizations. Professor Butler has been awarded the Soros Justice Fellowship. He was elected to the American Law Institute in 2003.
Professor Butler was the Carville Dickinson Benson Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. He also served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development. He was awarded the Professor of the Year award three times by the GW graduating class. Professor Butler has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Prior to joining the academy, Professor Butler served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, where his specialty was public corruption. His prosecutions included a United States Senator, three FBI agents, and several other law enforcement officials. While at the Department of Justice, Professor Butler also worked as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, prosecuting drug and gun cases.
Professor Butler is a cum laude graduate of Yale, and a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. He clerked for the Hon. Mary Johnson Lowe in the United States District Court in New York, and then joined the law firm of Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in white collar criminal defense.
Recent Scholarship
Books
- Paul Butler, Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice (New York: New Press 2009). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Paul Butler, One Hundred Years of Race and Crime, 100 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1043-1060 (2010). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
- Paul Butler, The White Fourth Amendment, 43 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 245-254 (2010). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Paul Butler, “A Long Step Down the Totalitarian Path”: Justice Douglas's Great Dissent in Terry v. Ohio, 79 Miss. L.J. 9-33 (2009). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Paul Butler, Should Good People Be Prosecutors?, in Blind Goddess: A Reader on Race and Justice 87-99 (Alexander Papachristou ed., New York: The New Press 2011). [BOOK]
All Scholarship 2000 - Present
Books
- Paul Butler, Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice (New York: New Press 2009). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Paul Butler, One Hundred Years of Race and Crime, 100 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1043-1060 (2010). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
- Paul Butler, The White Fourth Amendment, 43 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 245-254 (2010). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Paul Butler, “A Long Step Down the Totalitarian Path”: Justice Douglas's Great Dissent in Terry v. Ohio, 79 Miss. L.J. 9-33 (2009). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
- Paul Butler, When Judges Lie (and When They Should), 91 Minn. L. Rev. 1785-1828 (2007). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [WWW]
- Paul Butler, Blogging at Blackprof, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1101-1104 (2006). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
- Paul Butler, Rehnquist, Racism, and Race Jurisprudence, 74 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1019-1042 (2006). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Paul Butler, An Ethos of Lying, 8 UDC/DCSL L. Rev. 269-274 (2004). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Paul Butler, Much Respect: Toward a Hip-Hop Theory of Punishment, 56 Stan. L. Rev. 983-1016 (2004). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Paul Butler, Should Radicals Be Judges, 32 Hofstra L. Rev. 1203-1214 (2004). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
- Paul Butler, The Case for Trials: Considering the Intangibles, 1 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 627-636 (2004). [HEIN]
- Paul Butler, By Any Means Necessary: Using Violence and Subversion to Change Unjust Law, 50 UCLA L. Rev. 721-773 (2003). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Paul Butler, Foreword: Terrorism and Utilitarianism: Lessons from, and for, Criminal Law, 93 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1-22 (2002). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Paul Butler, Todd D. Rakoff, Deborah A. Ramirez & Christopher F. Edley, Panel V: Promoting Racial Equality, 9 J.L. & Pol'y 347-386 (2001). [HEIN] [L] [W]
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Paul Butler, Should Good People Be Prosecutors?, in Blind Goddess: A Reader on Race and Justice 87-99 (Alexander Papachristou ed., New York: The New Press 2011). [BOOK]
Selected Contributions to Other Publications
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Address:
600 New Jersey Avenue N.W.
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Office Location:
McDonough 418
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Assistant:
Patrick Kane
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Phone:
202-662-9932
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