Bernard E. Harcourt
Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology
Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773 834-4068
email: harcourt@uchicago.edu

Professor Harcourt's scholarship focuses on issues of crime and punishment from an empirical and social theoretic perspective. His research intersects criminal law and procedure, police and punishment practices, political and social theory, and criminology. He is the author of Against Prediction: Punishing and Policing in an Actuarial Age (University of Chicago Press 2007), Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy (University of Chicago Press 2005) and Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken-Windows Policing (Harvard University Press 2001). He is the editor of and a contributing author to a collection of essays on Guns, Crime and Punishment in America (New York University Press 2003), and of the journal, The Carceral Notebooks.

Professor Harcourt earned his bachelor's degree in political theory at Princeton University. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in political science in the Government Department at Harvard University in 2000. After law school, Professor Harcourt clerked for the Honorable Charles S. Haight, Jr., of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and then moved to Montgomery, Alabama to represent death row inmates on direct appeal, in state post-conviction, in federal habeas corpus, and at retrial. Professor Harcourt practiced at the Equal Justice Initiative (formerly known as the Alabama Capital Representation Resource Center) from 1990 to 1994, and has continued to represent several death row inmates pro bono since that time.

Professor Harcourt was appointed Senior Fellow in the Graduate Program at Harvard Law School from 1995 to 1997. During this time, he also served on human rights missions to South Africa and Guatemala, and pursued Ph.D. studies in political theory in the Government Department at Harvard University. Professor Harcourt was awarded his Ph.D. in June 2000. Professor Harcourt was on the faculty of the University of Arizona College of Law from 1998 to 2002, and was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (2001 2002) and New York University School of Law (Fall 2002).

Born: 1963
Education: A.B. 1984, Princeton University; J.D. 1989 and Ph.D. 2000, Harvard University
Website: http://bernardharcourt.com