Distinguished Professor
of Law.
(Associate Graduate Faculty, Philosophy,
Rutgers-New Brunswick). 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 joined the faculty in 2000, and she has been a visiting professor at the
University of Illinois and University of Pennsylvania law schools. She is a
cofounder and codirector of the Rutgers-Camden Institute for Law and Philosophy.
Professor 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 Classes of 2004 and 2010, and received
the Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2010. She was selected to be a Laurance S.
Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human
Values for 2012-2013.
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