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Elizabeth E. Joh

Contact Information

eejoh@ucdavis.edu
530-752-2756
Rm. 2125 King Hall

Education

• B.A., Yale University 1994
  
• J.D., New York University School of Law 2000
  
• Ph.D. Law and Society, New York University 2004

Curriculum Vitae 

In the News

Professor of Law

Professor Joh researches in the areas of criminal law and procedure. She has special interests in the fields of policing, criminal justice privatization, and the sociology of law. Before joining the Davis faculty in 2003, Professor Joh served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She received both her Ph.D. in Law and Society and J.D. from New York University, and her B.A. in literature from Yale University.

Special Interests

Selected Career Highlights

• Law Clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Selected Publications

• DNA Theft: Your Genetic Information at Risk , 12 Nature Reviews Genetics (October 25, 2011)
• Review Essay, Can Fiscal Crises Change our Incarceration Problem?  Maybe., Reviewing Mary D. Fan, Beyond Budget-Cut Criminal Justice, 90 N.C. L. Rev. __ (2011) (October 17, 2011).
• DNA Theft: Recognizing the Crime of Nonconsensual Genetic Collection and Analysis, __ BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW ­­__  (2011)
• Breaking the Law to Enforce It: Undercover Police Participation in Crime, 62 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 155 (2009)

More Publications...

• The Grim Sleeper and DNA: There’s much to be concerned about (op-ed), L.A. Times, July 10, 2010
• Review Essay, The Return of Banishment: Punishment and Policing (reviewing Katherine Beckett and Steve Herbert, Penal Boundaries: Banishment and the Expansion of Punishment, 35 Law and Social Inquiry 1 (2010) (May 24, 2010)
• Imagining the Addict: Evaluating Social and Legal Responses to Addiction, 2009 UTAH LAW REVIEW ­­175 (2009)
• Discretionless Policing: Technology and the Fourth Amendment, 95 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 199 (2007)
• The Forgotten Threat: Private Police and the State (symposium), 13 INDIANA JOURNAL OF GLOBAL LEGAL STUDIES 357 (2006)
• Reclaiming “Abandoned” DNA: The Fourth Amendment and Genetic Privacy, 100 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 2 (2006)
• Conceptualizing the Private Police, 2005 UTAH LAW REVIEW 573 (2005)
• The Paradox of Private Policing, 95 JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY 49 (2004)
• Custom, Tribal Court Practice, and Popular Justice, 25 AMERICAN INDIAN LAW REVIEW 117 (2001)
• Narrating Pain: The Problem With Victim Impact Statements, 10 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTERDISCIPLINARY LAW JOURNAL 17 (2000)
• “If It Suffices to Accuse”: United States v. Watts and the Reassessment of Acquittals, 74 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 887 (1999)
• Tremors on the Racial Fault Line? The Black Church Fires of 1996, 34 CRIMINAL LAW BULLETIN 497 (1998) (with James B. Jacobs, co-author)

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