Alexandra Natapoff

Exam Type: In Class This course considers the basic themes and doctrines of substantive criminal law, including criminal responsibility, the significance of act, intent, causation…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course examines the law governing police behavior, primarily by examining the constitutional doctrines of the Fourth, Fifth, and…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course examines the law governing police behavior, primarily by examining…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course considers the basic themes and doctrines of substantive criminal law, including criminal…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam Misdemeanors comprise the vast bulk of the American criminal system, approximately 80 percent of criminal dockets, yet they are…

Alexandra Natapoff, Criminal Municipal Courts, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 964 (2021).

Alexandra Natapoff, Anatomy of a Debate: Intersectionality and Equality for Deaf Children from Non-English Speaking Homes, 24 J.L. & Educ. 271 (1995).

Alexandra Natapoff, Trouble in Paradise: Equal Protection and the Dilemma of Interminority Group Conflict, 47 Stan. L. Rev. 1059 (1995).

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanors, 85 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1313 (2012).

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanor Decriminalization, 68 Vand. L. Rev. 1055 (2015).

Alexandra Natapoff, Snitching: The Institutional and Communal Consequences, 73 U. Cin. L. Rev. 645 (2004).

Alexandra Natapoff, Speechless: The Silencing of Criminal Defendants, 80 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1449 (2005).

Alexandra Natapoff, Underenforcement, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 1715 (2006).

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanors, 11 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 255 (2015).

Alexandra Natapoff, The High Stakes of Low-Level Criminal Justice, 128 Yale L.J. 1648 (2019) (reviewing Issa Kohler-Haussmann, Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an…

Alexandra Natapoff, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal (2018).

Alexandra Natapoff, Constitutional Rights in Black and White: A Video Casebook (2021).

Alexandra Natapoff, Opinion, Americans Are Hungry and Desperate. California Shouldn’t Respond by Cracking Down on Food Theft, Wash. Post, Oct. 26, 2020.

Alexandra Natapoff, The Year of Living Dangerously: State Courts Expand the Right to Education, 92 Educ. L. Rep. 755 (1994).

Alexandra Natapoff, Madisonian Multiculturalism, 45 Am U. L. Rev. 751 (1996).

Alexandra Natapoff, Beyond Unreliable: How Snitches Contribute to Wrongful Convictions, 37 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. 107 (2006).

Alexandra Natapoff, Deregulating Guilt: The Information Culture of the Criminal System, 30 Cardozo L. Rev. 965 (2008).

Alexandra Natapoff, Snitching and the Use of Criminal Informants, in Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology (Beth M. Huebner ed., 2012).

Alexandra Natapoff, Gideon Skepticism, 70 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1049 (2013).

Alexandra Natapoff, Aggregation and Urban Misdemeanors, 40 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1043 (2013).

Sharon Dolovich & Alexandra Natapoff, Introduction: Mapping the New Criminal Justice Thinking, in The New Criminal Justice Thinking 1 (Sharon Dolovich & Alexandra Natapoff eds.,…

Alexandra Natapoff, Negotiating Accuracy: DNA in the Age of Plea Bargaining, in Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution: Twenty-Five Years of Freeing the Innocent 85…

Alexandra Natapoff, The Penal Pyramid, in The New Criminal Justice Thinking 71 (2017).

Alexandra Natapoff, Gideon’s Servants and the Criminalization of Poverty, 12 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 445 (2015).

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanors, in 1 Reforming Criminal Justice: Introduction and Criminalization 71 (Academy for Justice, Erik Luna ed., 2017).

Alexandra Natapoff, Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice (2009).

The New Criminal Justice Thinking (Sharon Dolovich & Alexandra Natapoff eds., 2017).

Alexandra Natapoff, Atwater and the Misdemeanor Carceral State, 133 Harv. L. Rev. F. 147 (2020).

Alexandra Natapoff, A Stop is Just a Stop: Terry’s Formalism, 15 Ohio St. J. Crim L. 113 (2017).