Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Aya Gruber

Professor of Law
Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure: Investigation, Criminal Procedure: Adjudication, Seminar: Criminal Law in Context

401 UCB
Boulder, CO  80309-0401
Phone: (303) 492-8441
E-mail: aya.gruber@colorado.edu

Curriculum Vitae:  View (PDF format)

Educational Background:
J.D.   Harvard Law School   1997   (magna cum laude)
B.A.   University of California at Berkeley   1992   (summa cum laude with honors)

Bio:

Professor Gruber joined the University of Colorado Law School faculty as a professor of law in 2010. Prior to her appointment at Colorado, she was a professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law and an associate professor and founding faculty member at Florida International University College of Law, South Florida's first public law school. Professor Gruber teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure (Investigation), Criminal Procedure (Adjudication), and other courses related to criminal justice.  Professor Gruber earned her undergraduate degree in Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, graduating summa cum laude, with departmental honors, and Phi Beta Kappa.  She then attended Harvard Law School, from which she graduated magna cum laude, and served as an editor on the Women’s Law Journal and International Law Journal.  After law school, Professor Gruber clerked on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and then served as a felony trial attorney with the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C. and Federal Public Defender in Miami.  Professor Gruber’s main research areas are substantive criminal law (emphasizing victim’s rights, race, and gender); criminal procedure, feminist legal theory, and national security and foreign relations law.  She has published her work in prominent law reviews and presented scholarship at several academic conferences and colloquia.  A frequent public speaker on criminal justice, Professor Gruber has appeared on Fox News International, ABC, and PBS, and is quoted in various news outlets, including the Slate, Wired Magazine, and the Miami Herald.


Forthcoming

Gruber (with Vicente de-Palacios and Piet Hein Van Kempen), Practical Global Criminal Procedure: United States, Argentina, And Netherlands, (Carolina Academic Press) (forthcoming 2011).

Articles

A “Neo-Feminist” Assessment of Rape and Domestic Violence Law Reform, 15 J. GENDER RACE & JUST. 583 (2012).
A Distributive Theory of Criminal Law, 52 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1 (2010).
An Unintended Casualty of the War on Terror, 27 GA. ST. U. L. REV. 299 (2010).
Rape, Feminism, and the War on Crime, 84 WASH. L. REV. 581 (2009).
Garbage Pails and Puppy Dog Tails: Is that what Katz is Made of?, 41 UC DAVIS L. REV. 781 (2008).
Sending the Self-Execution Doctrine to the Executioner, 3 FIU L. REV. 54 (2007).
The Feminist War on Crime, 92 IOWA L. REV. 741 (2007).
Who's Afraid of Geneva Law?, 39 ARIZ. ST. L.J. 1017 (2007).
Raising the Red Flag: The Continued Relevance of the Japanese Internment in the Post-Hamdi World, 54 U. KANSAS L. REV. 307 (2006).
Navigating Diverse Identities: Building Coalitions through Redistribution of Academic Capital, an Exercise in Praxis,, 35 SETON HALL L. REV 1201 (2005).
Righting Victim Wrongs: Responding to Philosophical Criticisms of the Nonspecific Victim Liability Defense, 52 BUFFALO L. REV 433 (2004).
Victim Wrongs: The Case for a Criminal Defense Based on Wrongful Victim Behavior in an Era of Victim's Rights, 76 TEMP. L. REV. 645 (2003).
Pink Elephants in the Rape Trial: The Problem of Tort-type Defenses in the Criminal Law of Rape, 4 WM. & MARY J. WOMEN & L. 203 (1998).
Public Housing in Singapore: The Use of Ends-based Reasoning in the Quest for a Workable System, 38 HARV. INT'L L. J. 236 (1997).

Books and Book Chapters

One More Casualty of the “War on Terror", in COURTS AND TERRORISM: NINE NATIONS BALANCE RIGHTS AND SECURITY 33 (Cambridge University Press 2011).
Hope with a Sprinkling of Concern, in OBAMA REFLECTIONS (Ohio State U. Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity 2009).
From Neoliberalism to Libertarianism: Why Neither Criminalization nor Privacy is the Answer for Battered Women, in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS 696 (Oxford University Press 2009).

Policy Briefs

Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner, Gonzalez v. Crosby, 545 U.S. 524 (2005).

Press, Media & Publicity

Strauss-Kahn Jeered by Maids at Arraignment | Courthouse News.com | Monday, June 6, 2011
Why did NYC cops beat those rape charges despite good evidence against them? | Slate.com | Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Father Of 11 Arrested In Capitol Powder Hoax | The Denver Channel | Wednesday, June 1, 2011
When Juries Sideline Rape, Activists Look Outside the Courts | Courthouse News.com | Tuesday, May 31, 2011
$2.3M In 'Blood Money' Paid To Free CIA Contractor | The Denver Channel | Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Is 'Sex by Surprise' Illegal in the United States | Slate.com | Monday, December 6, 2010
Portland Bomb Plot Case Likely to Serve as Primer on Entrapment | The Oregonian | Saturday, December 4, 2010
Becker Trial: What is Insanity | Des Moines Register | Thursday, April 29, 2010
Does an Older Jury Undercut Defense | Des Moines Register | Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Judge Narrows Jury Pool to 36 in Becker Case | Iowa Times-Repulican | Thursday, February 11, 2010
Mock Jury Convened in Kehoe Trial | Cedar Rapids Gazette | Friday, January 1, 2010

Courses:

Spring 2013 Criminal Law LAWS 5503-801
Spring 2013 Seminar: Critical Theory Cllqm LAWS 8728-001
Spring 2012 Criminal Law LAWS 5503-803
Spring 2012 Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process LAWS 7045-001
Fall 2011 Criminal Law in Context:Legal and Social Images of Victims and Perpetrators LAWS 8533-001
Fall 2010 International Criminal Law LAWS 7320-001
Spring 2009 Criminal Law LAWS 5503-803
Spring 2009 International Crime and Punishment LAWS 8310-001