Before joining the Cardozo faculty, Professor Huigens practiced in the Seattle-Tacoma area for 12 years, including five as a prosecutor and three as a criminal defense attorney. His primary scholarly interest is the theory of punishment. He has published articles and essays in Harvard Law Review, California Law Review and Georgetown Law Journal, among others.

Professor Levine earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. She clerked for the Honorable Robert P. Patterson, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Levine was an Appellate Public Defender at Appellate Advocates. Prior to that, she was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

Kathryn Miller is an Associate Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic. Her scholarship focuses on how criminal investigation, criminal adjudication and post-conviction law implicate the constitutional rights of criminal defendants. She explores how procedural rules designed to further the interests of criminal defendants often disadvantage them and undermine fairness in the system as a whole. 

Professor Oberman is a Clinical Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic. Over his twenty years at Cardozo, Oberman has taught Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, Wrongful Convictions, and Ethics of Criminal Advocacy. In addition he teaches the Defense Clinic Seminar and directs the Criminal Defense Clinic, supervises students in the Criminal Appeals Clinic, and in the past litigated cases with the Innocence Project.

Professor Reinert joined the faculty of Cardozo in 2007, after working as an associate at Koob & Magoolaghan for six years, where he focused on the rights of people confined in prisons and jails, employment discrimination, and disability rights. Reinert teaches and conducts research in the areas of constitutional law, civil procedure, and criminal law. His articles have appeared in the Indiana Law Journal, Northwestern University Law Review, Stanford Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the University of Virginia Law Review, and William and Mary Law Review, among other journals. Reinert argued before the Supreme Court in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, and has appeared on behalf of parties and amicus curiae in many significant civil rights cases

Professor Roth is the co-director of the Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law. Previously she was a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York for seven years. As a prosecutor, she focused on violent crime and securities fraud and conducted numerous jury trials. Her teaching and research interests are in criminal law and evidence. Her scholarship has appeared in the UCLA Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and American Criminal Law Review, among other publications. 

Professor Gary Galperin is an Assistant District Attorney in New York County where he has investigated and prosecuted thousands of cases ranging from petty offenses to homicides and enterprise corruption. He has served in several supervisory and executive positions, and currently is Senior Investigative Counsel in the Rackets Bureau, focusing mainly on crimes of terrorism and organized crime. He has consulted and published in the field of forensic psychiatry and psychology. 

Emmanuel Hiram Arnaud is an Assistant Professor of Law. He was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell Law School, where he taught Criminal Law and a class called Race, the Constitution and American Empire. His research focuses on the application of federal criminal law and procedure in the territories of the United States, issues of criminal procedure, and race and the law. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review, Fordham Law Review, and Columbia Law Review Forum, among others.

Professor Alma Magaña is an Assistant Professor of Law. Her focus is in the areas of criminal law, evidence, and criminal procedure. Prior to her appointment, she was our Harold A. Stevens Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. Professor Magaña’s scholarship seeks to complicate the presupposition that the law and legal stakeholders can advance the interests of justice when the system itself perpetuates marginalization and vulnerability. Through a reassessment of common perceptions and myths about the legal system, her research seeks to explore ways to rectify the lack of protection afforded by the criminal legal system to poor people and Black and Latinx Communities in particular. Her first article, Public Defenders as Gatekeepers of Freedom, is forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review.

Kavita Bovell is an Assistant District Attorney in New York County where she has investigated and prosecuted thousands of cases ranging from petty thefts to violent offenses and homicides. She currently serves as the Deputy Bureau Chief of a Trial Bureau and in her more than 20 years at the District Attorney’s Office, she has held several other supervisory positions including as the Attorney in Charge of the Summer Law Student Intern Program, the Coordinator of the Child Advocacy Center and Criminal Court Supervisor. Professor Bovell has also previously served on the Legal Hiring Board. She currently runs the Prosecutor Practicum and Seminar at Cardozo.