CLE Workshop: "Justice in the Age of Criminal Records"

The Murphy Institute's Center on Law and the Economy hosts workshops each semester featuring both Tulane and guest faculty in law, economics, and political science who present their latest research in regulation, civil rights, the criminal legal system, and other key issues in law and the economy. Hosted by Adam Feibelman, Director of the Center on Law and the Economy and Sumter D. Marks Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, CLE workshops are open to faculty, students, and the Tulane community. 

Eisha Jain is the Henry P. Brandis Distinguished Professor of Law. Her research examines how policing decisions shape civil society. Her recent work has focused on immigration enforcement, criminal records, misdemeanors, and collateral consequences. Her scholarship has been published widely in leading law journals, including the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, and the Georgetown Law Journal. 

Jain previously worked as a civil rights lawyer, where she focused on police misconduct and wrongful conviction. For her work, she was recognized as a Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year Finalist. She clerked for the Hon. Walter K. Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as student director of the Immigration and Child Advocacy Clinics and won the Michael Egger Prize for the best student article published in the Yale Law Journal on a current social problem. She organizes the Carolina Law Scholarship Roundtable, which brings innovative scholars to Carolina Law to workshop book manuscripts and other works-in-progress relating to public law topics. Previously, she served as the Louis A. Horvitz Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.