Daniel Epps

Daniel Epps
Alma mater	Duke University (AB) Harvard University (JD)
Employer	Washington University School of Law
Notable work	“How to Save the Supreme Court”

Daniel Epps is an American legal scholar who is a professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. Epps teaches first-year criminal law, constitutional law, upper-level courses in criminal procedure, and a seminar on public law theory. His scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, ^[1] the Yale Law Journal, ^[2] the Michigan Law Review, ^[3] and the NYU Law Review, ^[4] and his writing for popular audiences has appeared in the New York Times, ^[5] the Washington Post, ^[6] Vox, ^[7] and The Atlantic. ^[8] His and Ganesh Sitaraman's proposal to expand the size of the Supreme Court was endorsed by Mayor Pete Buttigieg during his run for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination. ^[9] His and William Ortman's proposal to create a "Defender General" for criminal defendants at the Supreme Court was the subject of an article in the New York Times. ^[10]

Publications

Articles & Essays

• "Designing Supreme Court Term Limits," 95 Southern California Law Review__(forthcoming) (with Adam Chilton, Kyle Rozema & Maya Sen)
• "Checks and Balances in the Criminal Law," 73 Vanderbilt Law Review 1 (2021)
• "The Defender General," 168 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1469 (2020) (with William Ortman)
• "How to Save the Supreme Court," 129 Yale Law Journal (2019) (with Ganesh Sitaraman) ^[2]
• "Harmless Errors and Substantial Rights," 131 Harvard Law Review 2117 (2018) ^[1]
• "The Lottery Docket," 116 Michigan Law Review 705 (2018) (with William Ortman) ^[3]
• "Adversarial Asymmetry in the Criminal Process," 91 New York University Law Review 762 (2016)
• "One Last Word on the Blackstone Principle," 101 Virginia Law Review Online 34 (2016)
• "The Consequences of Error in Criminal Justice," 128 Harvard Law Review 1065 (2015) ^[1]
• Note, "Mechanisms of Secrecy," 121 Harvard Law Review 1556 (2008) ^[1]

Selected Commentary

• "The Supreme Court is Leaking. That's a Good Thing." 'Washington Post' (Aug. 3, 2020)
• "Abolishing Qualified Immunity Is Unlikely to Alter Police Behavior," 'New York Times (June 16, 2020)
• "One Change That Could Make American Criminal Justice Fairer," 'The Atlantic' (Mar. 16, 2020) (with William Ortman)
• "How to Save the Supreme Court," Vox (Oct. 10, 2018) (with Ganesh Sitaraman) ^[11]
• "Police Officers Are Bypassing Juries to Face Judges," Washington Post (Sept. 21, 2017)
• Contributor, “An Annotated Constitution," New York Times Magazine (July 2, 2017)
• "In Health Care Ruling, Roberts Steals a Move from John Marshall’s Playbook," The Atlantic (June 28, 2012) ^[8]

Podcasts

Epps co-hosts Divided Argument with law professor William Baude on which they discuss recent Supreme Court decisions. ^[12]

Epps previously co-hosted First Mondays with law professor Ian Samuel on which they discussed events at the Supreme Court. ^[13]

Awards and honors

• Honorable Mention, Scholarly Papers Competition, American Association of Law Schools (2018) (for The Lottery Docket)
• Finalist, Junior Scholars Paper Competition, Criminal Justice Section, American Association of Law Schools (2016) (for Adversarial Asymmetry in the Criminal Process)
• Exemplary Legal Writing, The Green Bag Almanac & Reader (2013) (for Brief of Professor Stephen E. Sachs as Amicus Curiae, Atlantic Marine Construction Co. v. U.S. District Court, 134 S. Ct. 568 (2013) (as co-counsel with Jeffrey S. Bucholtz & Stephen E. Sachs) ^[14]

References

1. "Harvard Law - Daniel Epps".
2. Entman, Liz (25 March 2019). "Depoliticizing the Supreme Court may mean radically overhauling it: Law professor". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
3. Epps, Daniel; Ortman, William (2018-03-01). "The Lottery Docket". Michigan Law Review. 116 (5): 705–757. doi: 10.36644/mlr.116.5.lottery . ISSN   0026-2234. S2CID   29662721.
4. "Daniel Epps | Take Care". takecareblog.com. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
5. Epps, Daniel (2012-06-16). "Opinion | Abolishing Qualified Immunity Is Unlikely to Alter Police Behavior". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
6. "'If it wasn't the Roberts court already, it is the Roberts court now'". The Washington Post .
7. Epps, Daniel (2018-09-06). "How to save the Supreme Court". Vox. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
8. "Daniel Epps". WashULaw. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
9. Lederman, Josh (January 3, 2019). "Inside Pete Buttigieg's plan to overhaul the Supreme Court". NBC News . Archived from the original on 2019-06-03. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
10. Liptak, Adam (January 27, 2020). "A Proposal to Offset Prosecutors' Power: The 'Defender General'". New York Times . Archived from the original on 2020-01-27. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
11. Epps, Daniel; Sitaraman, Ganesh (30 October 2019). "How to Save the Supreme Court". doi:10.2139/ssrn.3288958. SSRN   3288958.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
12. "Home". dividedargument.com.
13. "First Mondays". SCOTUSblog. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
14. "Daniel Epps CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-02.