Alexandra Natapoff
Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-8397
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: alexandra.natapoff@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
JD, Stanford Law School, with distinction
BA, Yale University, cum laude
Professor Natapoff is an award-winning scholar and a nationally-recognized expert on snitching in the criminal justice system. Prior to joining the faculty she served as an assistant federal public defender in Baltimore. She also founded the Urban Law & Advocacy Project with a community fellowship from the Open Society Institute. She clerked for the Honorable David S. Tatel, US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, and for the Honorable Paul L. Friedman, US District Court, Washington, DC. Her scholarly interests include the criminal justice system, race and the law and administrative law.
American Law Institute
“Snitching”: Using Criminals to Manage Crime (New York University Press, book manuscript-in-progress)
"Deregulating Guilt: The Information Culture of the Criminal System," 30 Cardozo L. Rev. __ (2008)
"Underenforcement," 75 Fordham L. Rev 1715 (2006). Winner of the 2007 Outstanding Scholarship Award from the AALS Criminal Justice Section; also awarded Honorable Mention in the 2007 AALS Scholarly Papers Competition.
"Comment: Beyond Unreliable: How Snitches Contribute to Wrongful Convictions," 37 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. 107 (2006)
"Speechless: The Silencing of Criminal Defendants," 80 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1449 (2005). Winner of the 2004 Outstanding Scholarship Award from the AALS Criminal Justice Section.
"Snitching: The Institutional and Communal Consequences," 73 U. Cin. L. Rev. 645 (2004). This article was selected for excellence by the 2004 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum.
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Madisonian Multiculturalism, 45 Am. U. L. Rev. 751 (1996)
"Trouble in Paradise: Equal Protection and the Dilemma of Interminority Group Conflict," 47 Stan. L. Rev. 1059 (1995). Winner of the Steven M. Block Civil Liberties Award for distinguished work relating to personal freedom.
Comment: "Intersectionality and Equality for Deaf Children from Non-English Speaking Homes," 24 J. Law & Educ. 271 (1995)
"The Year of Living Dangerously: State Courts Expand the Right to Education," 92 Ed. Law Rep. 755 (1994)
Gideon's Silence: Whatever Happened to the Right to Counsel? Slate.com (May 31, 2006)
Bait and Snitch: The High Cost of Snitching for Law Enforcement, Slate.com (Dec. 12, 2005)
Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure