Tracey Meares
Senior Research Fellow
Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
2850 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 500
Berkeley, CA 94705-7220
Tel: 510-643-7025
Fax: 510-643-4533
Tracey Meares is a Senior Research Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice and a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, Meares was the Max Pam Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago. In Chicago, Meares worked closely with law enforcement and community groups as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a national program to reduce gun violence. Upon law school graduation, Professor Meares clerked for Judge Harlington Wood, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, then served as an Honors Program Trial Attorney in the Antitrust Division in the United States Department of Justice. Her research and teaching interests center on criminal procedure and criminal law policy, with a particular emphasis on empirical investigation of these subjects. Meares is also a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation.
Education:
B.S., University of Illinois (1988)
J.D., University of Chicago (1991)
