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Professor Dolovich is a national expert on the constitutional law of prisons. Her research focuses on the law, policy and theory of prisons and punishment, and she teaches courses on prison law, criminal law, and the Eighth Amendment. Recent publications include Cruelty, Prison Conditions and the Eighth Amendment , 84 N.Y.U. Law Review 884 (2009) and Incarceration American-Style, 3 Harvard Law and Policy Review 237 (2009).
Professor Dolovich is currently focused on two projects: an empirical study of the LA County Jail’s practice of segregating vulnerable prisoners for their own protection, and a critical examination of Eighth Amendment doctrine as it applies to prison sentences and prison conditions. The first article growing out of the LA County Jail research, Strategic Segregation in the Modern Prison, will appear in volume 48 of the American Criminal Law Review. Other works in progress include: Two Theories of the Prison: Accidental Humanity and Hypermasculinity in the L.A. County Jail; The Illusory Eighth Amendment; and Some Puzzles about Eighth Amendment Deliberate Indifference.
Professor Dolovich has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and at the Georgetown University Law Center, and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has testified before both the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons and the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. Dolovich served as a consultant during the settlement phase of Johnson v. California, 543 U.S. 499 (2005) (the U.S. Supreme Court case concerning racial segregation in the California prisons) and an expert witness in a recent challenge to the policy of racially segregated lockdown in the California prisons. Dolovich also created and co-edits the SSRN journal Corrections & Sentencing Law & Policy Abstracts.
Other major articles include State Punishment and Private Prisons, 55 Duke L. J. 437 (2005) and Legitimate Punishment in Liberal Democracy, 7 Buff. Crim. L. Rev. 307 (2004). The latter was selected for the 2004 Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum as the best article in both criminal law and jurisprudence & philosophy—the first article ever to be selected in two categories. In 2005, she was honored by the Cornell University Program on Ethics and Public Life with its Young Scholar Award.
Professor Dolovich has also written in the field of legal ethics. Her article, Ethical Lawyering and the Possibility of Integrity, appeared in volume 70 in the Fordham Law Review.
To see Professor Dolovich discuss the safety implications of the recent Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Plata, click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU6dGBoAjX4&feature=channel_video_title