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Sheri Lynn Johnson
James and Mark Flanagan Professor of Law
Expertise:
Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Procedure
Clinics and Programs:
Death Penalty Project
Address
Cornell Law School
245 Hughes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
245 Hughes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Biography
Sheri Lynn Johnson is an expert on the interface of race and issues in criminal procedure, and the Assistant Director of the Cornell Death Penalty project, an initiative to foster empirical scholarship on the death penalty, offer students an opportunity to work with practitioners on death penalty cases, and to provide information and assistance for death penalty lawyers.
After her graduation from Yale Law School in 1979, Professor Johnson worked for a year in the Criminal Appeals Bureau of the New York Legal Aid Society, and then joined the Cornell Law School Faculty in 1981. Professor Johnson co-founded the Cornell Death Penalty Project in 1993.
She currently teaches constitutional and criminal law, and supervises the post-conviction litigation and capital trial clinics.
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- B.A., University of Minnesota, 1975
- J.D., Yale Law School, 1979
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- Johnson, Sheri Lynn, “The Influence of Latino Ethnicity on the Imposition of the Death Penalty,” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 16, p. 421-431 (October 2020)
- Hritz, Amelia, Sheri Lynn Johnson, and John H. Blume, “Death by Expert: Cognitive Bias in the Diagnosis of Mild Intellectual Disability,” Law & Psycology Review 44 (July 3, 2020)
- Johnson, Sheri Lynn, John H. Blume, and Amelia Hritz, “Convictions of Innocent People with Intellectual Disability,” Albany Law Review (forthcoming)
- Johnson, Sheri Lynn, Amelia Hritz, Caisa Royer, and John H. Blume, “When Empathy Bites Back: Cautionary Tales from Neuroscience for Capital Sentencing,” Fordham Law Review 85 (forthcoming)
- Blume, John H., Sheri Lynn Johnson, Paul Marcus, and Emily C. Paavola, “A Tale of Two (and Possibly Three) Atkins: Intellectual Disability and Capital Punishment Twelve Years after The Supreme Court’s Creation of a Categorical Bar,” William & Mary Bill of Rights 23 (2014)
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- 4051 Death Penalty in America
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