Jennifer Aronson

Jennifer Aronson is a doctoral researcher (DPhil Criminology) at the University of Oxford's Centre for Criminology, affiliated with Green Templeton College and the Faculty of Law. Her research focuses on expert witness testimony, unreliable forensic sciences, wrongful convictions, and judicial decision-making in U.S. courts. Supervised by Professor Carolyn Hoyle, her work is funded by the Oxford Law Faculty.

Education includes a Master's in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Oxford, a Juris Doctor (JD) with honors from the University of Washington School of Law, and prior social work research at the University of Texas at Austin. She has served as a judicial clerk in U.S. courts, co-authored The Law of Evidence in Washington (5th ed.), and published in legal journals and media outlets like Reuters.

Teaching includes courses on Criminal Law and Comparative Criminology. Research affiliations include the Abolitionist Imaginaries and Praxis Discussion Group. Awards include the Malcolm Edwards Prize for legal briefwriting and recognition for public interest work as Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Law Review.

Her professional contributions span legal academia, innocence project advocacy (since 2006), and policy analysis related to forensic evidence reliability. Current projects examine systemic biases in expert testimony admission and post-conviction relief mechanisms.