Tracey Meares
{{short description|American law professor}}
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| nationality = American
| occupation = Legal scholar, author
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| alma_mater = University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (B.S.)
University of Chicago Law School (J.D.)
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| workplaces = Yale Law School
University of Chicago Law School
| main_interests = criminal procedure and criminal law policy
| notable_works = The coming crisis of criminal procedure, 1998.
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Tracey L. Meares is an American legal scholar and author. She is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Previous to joining the Yale Law School faculty, she was Max Pam Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago Law School. At both Chicago and Yale, she was the first African-American woman to be granted tenure.{{cite web|url=https://theforum.sph.harvard.edu/expert-participants/tracey-meares/|title=Tracey Meares|last=|first=|date=2017-03-08|website=The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}
Early life and education
Meares was born to Robert and Carolyn Blackwell, who still live in Springfield, Illinois.{{Cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/high-school-graduate-denied-valedictorian-215128459.html |access-date=2023-10-19 |title=A high school graduate was denied valedictorian title. 38 years later, she gets the honor.
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Meares attended and graduated from a high school in the Springfield Public School District 186 in 1984 as one of two "Top Student"(s). In 2022, she was named the valedictorian, a delay that she attributes to racism.{{Cite web | url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/24/us/tracey-meares-black-valedictorian-trnd/index.html | title=Black woman named valedictorian nearly 40 years after her high school snubbed her | website=CNN | date=24 April 2022 }} Meares holds a B.S. in general engineering from the University of Illinois in 1988, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1991.{{Cite web |url=https://www.law.yale.edu/tracey-l-meares |title=Tracey L. Meares |website=Yale Law School|date=19 February 2024 }}
Career
Meares' first positions included a stint clerking for Harlington Wood, Jr. when he was on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, as well as a position at the United States Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, where she was a trial attorney. She taught at the University of Chicago Law School from 1995 to 2007, after which she joined Yale Law School as the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, a position she has held ever since. She also served as Yale Law School's Deputy Dean from 2009 to 2011 and co-founded The Justice Collaboratory along with Tom Tyler.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=The Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School |url=https://www.justicehappenshere.yale.edu/ |url-status=dead |access-date= |website=The Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School |archive-date=2022-05-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220504192256/https://www.justicehappenshere.yale.edu/ }} As of 2021, she is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Criminology.{{cite web| url=https://www.annualreviews.org/db/directory?0000,criminol| website=Annual Reviews| title=Annual Review of Criminology, Current Editorial Committee| access-date=26 April 2021}}
Awards and positions
Meares has been a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Law and Justice, and was appointed by then-Attorney General Eric Holder to serve on the Office of Justice Programs' Science Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Joyce Foundation's Board of Directors. In 2014, then-President Barack Obama appointed her to the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing when he created it by signing an executive order.{{Cite press release |title=President Obama Announces Task Force on 21st Century Policing |date=2014-12-18 |publisher=White House Office of the Press Secretary |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/18/president-obama-announces-task-force-21st-century-policing}}{{Cite news | title=After Stephon Clark Shooting, Questions Remain About Police Use Of Force | date=2018-04-04 |publisher=NPR | url=https://www.npr.org/2018/04/04/599525838/after-stephon-clark-shooting-questions-remain-about-police-use-of-force|last= Martin Kaste}} She was elected an American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow in 2019. {{Cite web|url=https://members.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx|title=2019 Fellows and International Honorary Members with their affiliations at the time of election |website=members.amacad.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302174101/https://members.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx|archive-date=2020-03-02}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.law.yale.edu/tracey-l-meares Faculty page]
- {{Google Scholar id|D-jxoWoAAAAJ}}
- [https://www.c-span.org/person/?tracymeares Tracey L. Meares] on C-SPAN
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Category:Yale Law School faculty
Category:University of Chicago Law School alumni
Category:University of Illinois alumni
Category:University of Chicago Law School faculty