New faculty appointment: Markus Dubber

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce the appointment of Markus Dubber to our faculty.  He will be joining us as a Full Professor in July of 2009.  Prof. Dubber is already familiar to some members of the law school community as he is currently spending his sabbatical year at the University of Toronto's Centre for Ethics. 
 
Prof. Dubber is a leading scholar in the area of comparative and theoretical criminal law.  He is currently Professor of Law, the Roger and Karen Jones Faculty Scholar and Director of the Buffalo Criminal Law Center at State University of New York, Buffalo School of Law.  He earned his J.D. from Stanford University (1991) and his A.B. (Philosophy) from Harvard University (1988).   He is the author of numerous books, articles and co-edited collections, including Victims in the War on Crime: The Use and Abuse of Victims’ Rights (NYU Press, 2002), The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government (Columbia University Press, 2005) and The Sense of Justice: Empathy in Law and Punishment (NYU Press 2006).  Prof. Dubber founded the Buffalo Criminal Law Center at SUNY.  He is founding Editor of the Buffalo Criminal Law Review, founding Series Editor of Critical Perspectives on Crime and Law (Stanford University Press) and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the New Criminal Law Review (University of California Press).