Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law. (Associate Graduate Faculty, Philosophy, Rutgers-New Brunswick). Dean 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. Dean 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. Dean Ferzan joined the faculty in 2000 and became Associate Dean in 2008. She is a cofounder and codirector of the Rutgers–Camden Institute for Law and Philosophy. Dean Ferzan's coauthored book, Crime and Culpability: A Theory of Criminal Law, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009, and her coedited book, Criminal Law Conversations, was published by Oxford University Press in 2009. She has also written numerous articles in criminal law theory, and has served as chair of the Association of American Law School sections on jurisprudence and scholarship. She was honored as Professor of the Year by the Rutgers School of Law–Camden Class of 2004.