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Sharon Dolovich is a Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law and Faculty Director of the UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program. She also directs the UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project, focusing on prison conditions and the Eighth Amendment. Her work addresses systemic issues in corrections, including pandemic impacts on incarcerated populations and sleep deprivation among prisoners and staff. Dolovich has held visiting roles at NYU, Harvard, and Georgetown, and was a Radcliffe Institute fellow. She has authored influential articles on prison law, including Cruelty, Prison Conditions, and the Eighth Amendment (2009).
Education: B.A., Queen's University; Ph.D., Cambridge University; J.D., Harvard Law School (UCLA Faculty Since 2000).
Research focuses on carceral systems, Eighth Amendment jurisprudence, and social justice advocacy. Her projects include landmark analyses of racial disparities in prison mortality during the pandemic and ongoing studies on sleep deprivation in corrections. She teaches courses on constitutional prison law and criminal law.
Her articles consistently examine systemic failures in prison oversight and the human rights implications of mass incarceration. Recent work highlights racial inequities in carceral health outcomes and the impact of overwork on correctional officers' sleep deprivation.
- Awards: UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award (2021), UCLA Public Impact Research Award (2023), Young Scholar Award (2005).
- Advising: Hosts Prison Law JD, a listserv for law students advocating for incarcerated individuals.
- Teams: Directs UCLA’s Behind Bars Data Project and co-leads Criminal Justice Program, fostering collaborative research on policy reforms.
