Daniel Epps

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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]

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Publications

Articles & Essays

Selected Commentary

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

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References

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  2. 1 2 Entman, Liz (25 March 2019). "Depoliticizing the Supreme Court may mean radically overhauling it: Law professor". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
  3. 1 2 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. 1 2 "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.