Alexandra Natapoff
Professor of Law

Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-8397
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: alexandra.natapoff@lls.edu,

Blog:   www.snitching.org

 

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, a nationally-recognized expert on snitching in the criminal justice system, and a member of the American Law Institute.  She previously served as an assistant federal public defender in Baltimore, Maryland, and was the recipient of an Open Society Institute Community Fellowship.  She clerked for the Honorable David S. Tatel, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, and for the Honorable Paul L. Friedman, U.S. District Court, Washington, D.C.

 

Professional Memberships

American Law Institute

Scholarship

Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice (NYU Press, 2009)

"Deregulating Guilt: The Information Culture of the Criminal System," 30 Cardozo L. Rev. 965-1021 (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)

Commentary

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)

Courses Taught

Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure

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