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Stefen R. Short is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law where he co-directs the Civil Rights Clinic. The clinic focuses on the intersection of civil rights and criminal justice and provides representation to individuals and groups whose civil rights have been violated by law enforcement officials. The clinic primarily litigates cases involving police misconduct and the constitutional and statutory rights of prisoners and detainees in federal court.
Professor Short joined Cardozo from the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ), where he served as Special Counsel for Disability Justice Projects, leading the Center’s efforts to protect and advance the rights of people with disabilities impacted by carceral systems. Prior to his work at NCLEJ, Short held leadership roles at Worth Rises and the Prisoners’ Rights Project of The Legal Aid Society, and served as a Staff Attorney at Disability Rights New York. Professor Short has also taught in an adjunct capacity at the City University of New York School of Law and the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. His scholarship and research focuses on carceral ableism and anti-Blackness, the successes and failures of carceral reform movements, and carceral abolition. Professor Short earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Albany Law School and his undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Oswego.
Featured Scholarship
Administrative Nullification and the Precarity of Carceral Reform
138 HARV. L. REV. F. 182 (2025) (with Riley Doyle Evans)
New York Tough: 18 Months of Crisis Lawyering to Fight COVID-19 in New York’s Prisons
46 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 416 (2022).