Assistant Professor of Law. Professor Ferzan earned her B.A. at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), where she graduated with distinction and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her J.D. cum laude at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif, an editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and a legal research and writing instructor. Professor Ferzan then clerked for the Honorable Marvin Katz in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. After her clerkship, she worked as a trial attorney for the Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section, investigating and prosecuting criminal offenses committed by federal, state, and local officials. She also served as a special assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia. Professor Ferzan is the author of numerous publications, including "The Role of Luck in the Criminal Law" (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1994) and "Mens Rea and Inchoate Crimes" (with Larry Alexander, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1997); "Opaque Recklessness" (Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 2001); "Some Sound and Fury from Kaplow and Shavell" (Law and Philosophy, forthcoming); and "Don`t Abandon the Model Penal Code Yet! Thinking Through Simons` Rethinking" (Buffalo Criminal Law Review, forthcoming).
