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Stuart P. Green

Professor of Law and Justice Nathan L. Jacobs Scholar 

Professor Green joined the faculty in 2008 from Louisiana State University Law Center, where he was Louis B. Porterie Professor of Law and had taught courses in criminal law and procedure, white collar crime, and legal ethics since 1995. His scholarship on topics such as corporate and white collar crime, criminal law codification, comparative criminal law, victims’ rights, strict liability, justified homicide, plagiarism, and the criminal law’s Special Part has appeared in numerous books and journals. His book Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White Collar Crime received the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium’s first annual Outstanding Publication Award and was nominated for the 2006 ABA Scribes/American Society of Legal Writers Book Award. Works-in-progress include the books Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Age (under contract with Harvard University Press) and Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law (with co-editor R.A. Duff) (under contract with with Oxford University Press).

Professor Green received a B.A. summa cum laude in philosophy from Tufts University and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was notes editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for Judge Pamela Ann Rymer of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and then was an associate with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC for five years. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Arizona and University of Michigan law schools and in 2002-03 was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in the United Kingdom.

Professor Green is a member of the editorial boards of Criminal Law and Philosophy and the New Criminal Law Review and a manuscript reviewer for several academic presses. He has also served as a consultant to the Law Commission for England and Wales.