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s h e r o d t ha x t o n

s h e r o d t ha x t o ns h e r o d t ha x t o ns h e r o d t ha x t o n

Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Professor of African American Studies | Public Policy | Sociology [by courtesy] 

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thaxton@law.ucla.edu

s h e r o d t ha x t o n

s h e r o d t ha x t o ns h e r o d t ha x t o ns h e r o d t ha x t o n

Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Professor of African American Studies | Public Policy | Sociology [by courtesy] 

Learn More

thaxton@law.ucla.edu

my research addresses these questions:

how can we use data, through robust quantitative methods,
to best understand and solve the most pressing issues of law and policy today in
criminal law, access to education, and other matters of civil rights and racial justice?

Publications

About Sherod Thaxton

Education

Education

Education

  • B.A. University of California, Davis, 1997
  • M.A. Emory University, 2000
  • J.D. University of Chicago Law School, 2008
  • Ph.D. Emory University, 2009

Courses

Education

Education

: : UCLA Faculty, 2013 – Present : : 

  • Business Crime
  • Capital Punishment
  • Criminal Law
  • Criminal Procedure
  • Federal White Collar Crime
  • Habeas Corpus
  • Introduction to Legal Analysis

Expertise

Education

Expertise

 My scholarship centers on quantitative empirical legal studies, with a substantive focus on criminal law, criminal procedure, and the sociology of crime and punishment. Prior to joining the law faculty, I served as the Earl B. Dickerson Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School and an attorney in the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Sacramento, CA.  

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