Christopher Slobogin is the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University. He is one of the five most cited criminal law and procedure scholars in the United States, with citations in over 6000 law review articles and treatises and more than 250 judicial opinions. Slobogin has published over 200 articles and chapters, as well as multiple books, including Just Algorithms: Using Science to Reduce Incarceration and Inform a Jurisprudence of Risk (2021).
'Rehabilitating Criminal Justice is an important book with many valuable reform proposals by one of the leading thinkers in America on criminal justice. It is an important addition to the literature on criminal justice reform and offers a package of solutions that are bold but feasible, thus presenting itself as a realistic alternative to calls for abolition. We need more scholarship like this, which aims for dramatic changes to address mass incarceration but that is attuned to the need to continue to provide a regime that will keep the public safe and be politically palatable.' Rachel Barkow, author of Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration and Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration 'Christopher Slobogin is one of the nation's most sophisticated thinkers about criminal justice policy. He has spent decades advocating as a scholar and a law reformer for changes to our broken system, which fails to adequately respect individual rights or optimally prevent crime. Now he offers a comprehensive tour of his vision for lasting change in everything from policing to prosecution, adjudication, and sentencing. No one will agree with every single thing that Slogobin proposes, but absolutely everyone should read him.' Carol S. Steiker, Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law, Harvard Law School 'This timely book, from one of the country's most thoughtful and respected voices on criminal law and procedure, is sweeping in scope - explaining the system's many interconnected parts -but also pragmatic and concrete. Slobogin is a heterodox scholar in conversation with abolitionists, reformist reformers, and law enforcement, and more than anyone I can think of, has a real chance of establishing common ground on these vexing criminal justice issues. His ideas have never been more necessary.' Andrea Roth, Barry Tarlow Chancellor's Chair in Criminal Justice, UC Berkeley School of Law