UC Davis School of Law - Faculty & Administration

Faculty & Administration

Elizabeth E. Joh

Contact Information

eejoh@ucdavis.edu
530-752-2756
Rm. 2095 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

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

Criminal Law And Procedure, Law And Society, Police And Policing

Selected Career Highlights

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

Selected Publications

Breaking the Law to Enforce It: Undercover Police Participation in Crime, 62 Stan. L. Rev. __ (2010)
Imagining the Addict: Evaluating Social and Legal Responses to Addiction, 2009 Utah L. Rev. 175 (2009) (Drugs: Addiction, Therapy , and Crime symposium)
Discretionless Policing: Technology and the Fourth Amendment, 95 Cal. L. Rev. 199 (2007)
The Forgotten Threat: Private Police and the State (symposium), 13 Ind. J. Global L. Stud. 357 (2006)

More Publications...

Reclaiming “Abandoned” DNA: The Fourth Amendment and Genetic Privacy, 100 Nw. Univ. L. Rev. 2 (2006)
Conceptualizing the Private Police, 2005 Utah L. Rev. 573 (2005)
The Paradox of Private Policing, 95J. Crim. L. & Criminol. 49 (2004)
Custom, Tribal Court Practice, and Popular Justice, 25 Am. Indian L. Rev. 117 (2001)
Narrating Pain: The Problem With Victim Impact Statements, 10 S. Cal. Interdisc. L. J. 17 (2000)
"If It Suffices to Accuse": United States v. Watts and the Reassessment of Acquittals, 74 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 887 (1999)
Tremors on the Racial Fault Line? The Black Church Fires of 1996, (James B. Jacobs, co-author), 34 Crim. L. Bulletin 497 (1998)
Katz v. United States, Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court (David S. Tanenhaus, ed., 2008)
Your Shed DNA: Up for Grabs?, Insights on Law and Society, American Bar Association (Fall 2007)
Policing Without the Police, (invited submission), 34 Search & Seizure L. Rep 57 (2007)
Private Policing, The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Routledge 2006)
Private Policing: An Interpretive Guide, (invited submission), 33 Search & Seizure L. Rep. 25 (2006)
Private Policing: Unknown and Under-Regulated, (invited submission), 32 Search & Seizure L. Rep. 33 (2005)

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