In-Person Class Visit: Substantive Criminal Law with Prof. Scott Sundby

1311 Miller Drive,Coral Gables FL 33146

24 January, 2023

Description

This event is intended for prospective JD students for the University of Miami School of Law. As space is limited, we can only accommodate up to 5 students per class. Also, students are only allowed to attend once per class offering. Scott Sundby teaches a variety of courses in the criminal law and procedure area. After clerking for Judge Phyllis Kravitch of the Eleventh Circuit, he began his teaching career at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. He later moved to Washington & Lee Law School where he was the Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law. While at W&L, at various points he served as Director of the Virginia Capital Clearinghouse, a clinic at W&L that advises lawyers appointed to represent capital defendants, and as Director of the Frances Lewis Law Center. To obtain a prosecutor's viewpoint of the criminal justice system, Professor Sundby took a leave of absence from teaching during 1994-95 and prosecuted cases as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. He has been a visiting fellow at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia and at Universitat Jaume I in Castelló de la Plana, Spain, Universidad de San Andres in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was a Fulbright scholar and the Arthur Cox research fellow at Trinity College Dublin. Professor Sundby's writings focus on criminal law and constitutional law issues, including articles that have appeared in the Virginia, Columbia, Cornell, UCLA, and Texas law reviews. Much of his research has been conducted as part of the Capital Jury Project, a study funded by the National Science Foundation that is designed to understand how juries decide whether or not to impose the death penalty. As part of the Project, he oversaw the interviewing of a large number of jurors who actually served on capital juries, half of which returned death sentences and half of which opted for life sentences. His articles based on the Project have examined a variety of aspects of the death-penalty decision, including the role of the defendant's remorse in affecting the jury's decision, the impact of expert witnesses, the importance of how the jurors perceive the victim, and how different trial strategies influence the jury's choice between a life and death sentence; his findings have been cited by over sixty courts, including the United States Supreme Court in its opinion in Florida v. Nixon (2004).