Alice Ristroph
Professor of Law
Alice Ristroph teaches and writes in the fields of criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and political theory. She is particularly interested in the relationship between punishment theory and criminal justice practice. Recently, she has been studying efforts to use law to reduce or regulate state violence. Her article on Thomas Hobbes and the right to resist punishment was selected for the 2008 Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop, and will appear in the California Law Review in 2009. Her other work has appeared or is forthcoming in Criminal Law & Philosophy, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, the Duke Law Journal, and the Green Bag. During the 2007-2008 academic year, Ristroph was a Faculty Fellow in Ethics at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University. She joined the Seton Hall faculty in 2008 after serving as Associate Professor at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law. Before she began law teaching, Ristroph was an associate in the litigation department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. She has a J.D. and Ph.D. in political theory from Harvard University.
Publications
Law Review Articles
Respect and Resistance in Punishment Theory, California L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009)
Law Journal Article
State Intentions and the Law of Punishment, 98 J. Crim. L. & Criminology (forthcoming 2008)
State Intentions and the Law of Punishment, 98 J. Crim. L. & Criminology (forthcoming 2008)
Desert, Democracy, and Sentencing Reform, 96 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1293 (2006)
Sexual Punishments, 15 Colum. J. Gender & Law 139 (2006)
Other Articles
Professors Strangelove, 11 Green Bag 2d 243 (2008)