Justin Murray
Associate Professor
Forthcoming
| Brady's Shadow, 112 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW. |
| Murray (Carissa Byrne Hessick and Maria Ponomarenko), Municipal Prosecutors and Misdemeanor Enforcement. |
Published Books
| Murray (coeditor, with Robin West & Meredith Esser), In Search of Common Ground On Abortion: From Culture War To Reproductive Justice, (Ashgate 2014). |
Articles
| Prosecutorial Reform and the Myth of Individualized Enforcement, 102 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1435. |
| Policing Procedural Error in the Lower Criminal Courts, 89 FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 1411. |
| Prejudice-Based Rights in Criminal Procedure, 168 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW 277. |
| A Contextual Approach to Harmless Error Review, 130 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 1791. |
| Reimagining Criminal Prosecution: Toward a Color-Conscious Professional Ethic for Prosecutors, 49 AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 1541. |
| Exposing the Underground Establishment Clause in the Supreme Court's Abortion Cases, 23 REGENT UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1 (student article). |
Other Publications
| CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: ADJUDICATION, (ChartaCourse 2021). |
| Murray et al., On Guardianship in Self-Sovereign Identity: Whitepaper v. 1.2, (2019). |
Book Chapters
| Murray (Routledge, eds. Addrain Conyers et al. 2023), The Procedural Architecture of Mass Incarceration, in MASS INCARCERATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY 17. |
Book Reviews
| CRIM. L. & CRIM. JUST. BOOKS (2022), (reviewing PROGRESSIVE PROSECUTION: RACE AND REFORM IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE (ed.s Kim Taylor-Thompson & Anthony Thompson 2022)). |
| 69 J. LEGAL EDUC. 814 (2020), (reviewing EMILY BAZELON, CHARGED: THE NEW MOVEMENT TO TRANSFORM AMERICAN PROSECTUION AND END MASS INCARCERATION (2019)). |
Symposia, Invited Essays, and Short Articles
| Law Enforcement Independence in Trump's Second Term, 55 STETSON LAW REVIEW 319 (invited symposium article). |
| Murray (with Miriam Aroni Krinsky & Maybell Romero), Preface: New Directions in Prosecutorial Reform, 60 AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 1369 (symposium preface). |
| Redress for Wrongful Convictions: A Response to Professor Medwed, 58 NEW ENGLAND LAW REVIEW 53 (invited symposium essay). |
| Prosecutorial Nonenforcement and Residual Criminalization, 19 OHIO STATE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW 391 (peer evaluated). |
Essays
| Murray (with John Greabe), Disentangling the Ethical and Constitutional Regulation of Criminal Discovery, HARVARD LAW REVIEW BLOG (June 15, 2018). |
| Murray (with Eve Brensike Primus), Redefining Strickland Prejudice after Weaver v. Massachusetts, HARVARD LAW REVIEW BLOG (May 22, 2018). |
Courses:
| Fall 2026 | Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process | LAWS 7045-801 |
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