Erica J. Hashimoto is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center where she serves as the Director of the Appellate Litigation Program. She has litigated before the United States Courts of Appeals for the D.C., Eleventh, and Fourth Circuits. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, she was the Allen Post Professor of Law at the University of Georgia.While there, she started an appellate litigation clinic that accepted appointments from federal courts of appeals, and she was named a Josiah Meigs Professor, the university’s highest teaching honor.
Prior to teaching at the University of Georgia, Professor Hashimoto was an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C.She also clerked for the Honorable David S. Tatel of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for the Honorable Paul L. Friedman of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Scholarship
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
Erica J. Hashimoto, Motivating Constitutional Compliance,68 Fla. L. Rev. 1001-1043 (2016). [WWW] [HEIN]
Erica J. Hashimoto, Reclaiming the Equitable Heritage of Habeas,108 Nw. U. L. Rev. 139-186 (2014). [HEIN] [L]
Erica J. Hashimoto, An Originalist Argument for a Sixth Amendment Right to Competent Counsel,99 Iowa L. Rev. 1999-2013 (2014). [HEIN] [L]
Erica J. Hashimoto, The Problem with Misdemeanor Representation,70 Wash & Lee L. Rev. 1019-1047 (2013). [HEIN] [L]
Congressional Testimony
Protecting the Constitutional Right to Counsel for Indigents Charged with Misdemeanors: Hearing Before the S. Comm. on the Judiciary, 114th Cong., May 13, 2015 (Statement of Erica J. Hashimoto) (CIS No.: Pending). [WWW]
