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Education
The University of Chicago, Department of History
Ph.D., M.A., December 2013
 
Honors/Awards:     2004-08 Provost Fellowship
                                         2007 and 2008 Freehling Travel Grant
                                         2008-11 Bessie Pierce Prize Preceptor
                                         2011 Kunstadter Travel Grant
 
Dissertation Title:    Harsh Mercy: Criminal Law in Seventeenth-Century 
                                           Massachusetts Bay.
 
Dissertation Committee:     Edward M. Cook (chair), Richard H. Helmholz, and Fredrik 
                                                          Albritton-Jonsson.
 
Qualifying Exam Committee:     Edward M. Cook (colonial North America), Richard H.  
                                                                  Helmholz (English legal history 1066-1830), and Steve 
                                                                  C.A. Pincus (early Modern Britain).
 
Yale University, Department of History
Visiting Graduate Student, September 2005-May 2006
 
University of Southern California, Gould School of Law
J.D., May 2004
 
Honors/Awards:     USC Merit Scholarship
                                         Fellow, U.S.C. Center for Law, History, and Culture
 
California State University, San Bernardino, Department of History
B.A. with honors, June 1999
 
Honors Thesis:     We Democrats of California and How We Threw an Election: A True
                                      Story of 1934.
  
Honors/Awards:     Phi Kappa Phi
                                         Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society)
                                         McNair Scholar (higher education scholarship)
                                         History Departmental honors
                                         Associated Students’ board member of the year (1999)

Publications

 

People v. Helen Wu, Commentary in Feminist Judgments: Criminal Law, Bennett Capers, Sarah Deer, & Corey Rayburn Yung eds., Cambridge Univ. Press (forthcoming).

Reclaiming Black Dignity, 99 Texas Law Review Online (forthcoming).

*†The Model Speaks?: Obscenity Laws in the United States, in Gender and Justice: Theoretical Practices of Intersectional Identity, Elaine Wood ed. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (forthcoming).

*Crime Fantasies, 46 American Journal of Criminal Law 193 (2019).

Dignity Takings in the Criminal Law of Seventeenth-Century England and the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 92 Chicago-Kent Law Review 743 (2017).

The Ideological Origins of the Right to Counsel, 68 South Carolina Law Review 87 (2016).

Restoring Community Dignity Following Police Misconduct, 59 Howard Law Journal 621 (2016).

“Introductory Essay, History of Crime and Punishment in America 1600 to 1776,” in The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America, Volume V, pp. 1991-2007. Wilbur R. Miller editor. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2012.

 Other Academic Publications

† Review: Esther Sullivan, Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans’ Tenuous Right to Place and Dave Cowan, et. al. Ownership, Narrative, Things, 53 Law and Society Review 1393 (2019).

† The People v. Donald J. Trump? An Inquire into President Trump facing Criminal Charges, Jurist (Leanne Winkels, ed., June 26, 2019), https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2019/06/john-acevedo-trump-criminal-charges/.

“English Charter of Liberties of 1100,” in Social History of Crime and Punishment in America (Above), p. 539 (2012).

 

“Gideon v. Wainwright,” in Social History of Crime and Punishment in America (Above), pp. 697-698 (2012).
 
“Habeas Corpus Act of 1679,” in Social History of Crime and Punishment in America (Above), pp. 729-730 (2012).
 
“Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts,” in Social History of Crime and Punishment in America (Above), pp. 993-994 (2012).
  
“Trials” in Social History of Crime and Punishment in America (Above), pp. 1824-1830 (2012).
 
“Property Division Law, U.S. History of,” in Cultural Sociology of Divorce. Robert E. Emery and Geoffrey J. Golson editors. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2013.
 
“Flag Burning,” and “Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Prohibition Against),” in Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics. Bruce A. Arrigo and Geoffrey J. Golson editors. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2014.

Works in Progress

Applying the Common Law during the Salem Witchcraft Trials (in progress).

Law's Gaze (in draft)

The Impact of Diner Gender on Check Presentation in Restaurants, co-authored with Mallika Das and Deepa Das Acevedo (in draft).

Bounded Relativism: Toward a Theory of Legal Relativism (in draft).

Teaching Experience

University of La Verne, College of Law
Assistant Professor
July 2016 - July 2018
Courses: Constitutional Law, First Amendment, Jurisprudence, English Legal History
  
Barry University, Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law
Visiting Assistant Professor
August 2015 - May 2016
Courses: Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, and Criminal Law
 
University of Southern California, Gould School of Law 
September 2014 - August 2015
Lecturer of Law
Courses: Introduction to Legal Systems and Constitutional Law.
  
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law 
January 2014 - May 2014
Adjunct Professor
Courses: Comparative Criminal Procedure.
 
University of Chicago, College 
September 2012 - December 2013
Lecturer
Courses: America in World Civilization: Part I.
  
University of Chicago, Graham School of General Studies 
September 2009 - December 2009
Adjunct Professor
Courses: History of Anglo-American Criminal Procedure.

University of Chicago, College 
September 2008 - June 2011
Bessie Pierce Prize Preceptor
Courses: Historical Theory & Methods and BA Thesis Writing.
 
University of Chicago, Department of History
September 2006 - June 2010
Teaching assistant
Courses: American Revolution, American Culture to 1865, Women in Colonial America, 18th Century British Political Culture, Social History of Colonial America, America in World Civilization: Part I, European Civilization: Part I, and European Civilization: Part II.

Presentations

“Dignity Takings in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay Criminal Law,” Chicago-Kent Law Review Symposium on Dignity Takings and Dignity Restoration, Chicago, November 2016.

A previous version of this paper was presented at Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, 28 May 2015.

“Transforming the Common Law: Criminal Law Reform in Early Massachusetts Bay,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2 June 2016.

A previous version of this paper was presented at the Early Modern Workshop, The University of Chicago, 10 November 2014.

“Community Reparations as a Remedy for Dignity Takings Following Police Misconduct,” American Society of Law, Society and the Humanities Annual Meeting, Hartford, 1-2 April 2016.

A previous version of this paper was presented at the Southeast-Southwest Persons of Color Conference, FAMU College of Law, Orlando, 26 February 2016.

“The Impact of Diner Gender on Check Presentation in Restaurants: Preliminary Results from Canada,” co-authored/presented with Mallika Das and Deepa Das Acevedo, The International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines Conference, Orlando, Florida, 2-5 January 2016.

“Restoring Community Dignity Following Police Misconduct,” 12th Annual Wiley A. Branton Symposium, Howard University, 29 October 2015.

“Dignity Takings in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay Criminal Law,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, 28 May 2015.

“Transmuting the Common Law: Criminal Law Reform in Early Massachusetts Bay,” Early Modern Workshop, The University of Chicago, 10 November 2014.

“Bounded Universalism: Toward a Theory of Legal Relativism,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Boston, 2 June 2013.

“A Brief Legal History of the Salem Witchcraft Trials,” Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Newberry Library Chicago, 24-26 January 2013.

“Criminal Procedure and Law of the Salem Witchcraft Trials,” Early Modern Workshop, The University of Chicago, 10 December 2012.

“The History of Equity and Chancery in English Law,” guest lecture, The University of Chicago, Graham School of General Studies, 10 October 2012.

“Neither Cosmopolitan nor Parochial: Foreign Law Citation in the United States,” co-authored/presented with Deepa Das Acevedo, Law, Culture, and Society Workshop, The University of Chicago, 11 May 2012.

“The Implementation of the Common Law during the Salem Witchcraft Trials,” Law, Culture, and Society Workshop, The University of Chicago, 16 February 2012.

“The Intellectual Origins of the Right to Counsel,” Law, Culture, and Society Workshop, The University of Chicago, 7 June 2010.

“The Role of the California Correctional Peace Officers’ Association in California Politics and the Passage of Three Strikes,” Human Rights Workshop, The University of Chicago, 3 December 2008. (An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting for the Association of the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities, 2004).

“The Colonial Origin of the Right to Counsel and the Transformation of New England Legal Culture: A Proposal,” Early Modern Workshop, The University of Chicago, June 2007.

“A Good Union or Political Renegade? The Role of the California Correctional Peace Officers’ Association in California Politics and the Passage of Three Strikes,” Annual Meeting for the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, The University of Connecticut, March 12-13, 2004.

“Upton Sinclair’s EPIC Race for Governor of California,” McNair Research Conference, The Pennsylvania State University, 7-9 August 1998.

“Hildegard’s Devil,” Feather on God’s Breath: Hildegard of Bingen 900 Years Later, California State University San Bernardino, 23-24 October 1998.

Professional Service

H-Law                                                                                                             2012 - present

Web editor/Editorial Board Member

Law and Society Association, Colonization and the Law CRN                 2011 - present

Coordinator                                                                                                   

University of Chicago, Law, Culture, and Society Workshop                    2009 – 2012     

Coordinator                                                                                                   

University of Chicago, Early Modern Workshop                                        2007 – 2008

Coordinator                                                                                                   

University of Chicago, British Studies Workshop                                       2006 – 2007

Coordinator