Alice Ristroph

Alice Ristroph is a Professor at Brooklyn Law School, appointed to the inaugural Les Fagen Professorship in June 2024. She joined the faculty in 2017 and specializes in Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, and Criminal Procedure, with a focus on violence, resistance, and carceral systems.

• Areas of Expertise: Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure
• Key Research Themes: State violence, carceral ideologies, punishment theory, and resistance movements
• Education: A.B., Ph.D. from Harvard University; J.D. from Harvard Law School

Her scholarship interrogates the legal frameworks sustaining mass incarceration and examines constitutional mechanisms to regulate state violence. She has published extensively in top journals like Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, and Virginia Law Review, addressing topics such as police brutality, felon disenfranchisement, and the Second Amendment in carceral contexts.

Scientific Awards:

• Les Fagen Professorship (2024)
• Member, American Law Institute

Professor Ristroph previously taught at Seton Hall University and the University of Utah and worked as a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She is also a prolific textbook author and contributor to legal discourse on carceral practices.