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Alexandra Harrington
Director, Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic; Director, Innocence and Justice Project University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Criminal law, sentencing, parole, clemency, post-conviction, re-sentencing and sentence review, second-look, prisons / mass incarceration, constitutional law
Professor Harrington’s research explores the aims of sentencing and how these goals influence opportunities for back-end sentence review or “second looks” like re-sentencing, parole, and clemency.
Harrington is a former public defender. She runs the Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic at the law school where student attorneys represent incarcerated individuals applying for resentencing under New York’s Domestic Violence Survivor’s Justice Act, seeking parole, appealing parole denials, and petitioning for executive clemency.
CONTACT:
Alexandra Harrington
Director, Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic; Director, Innocence and Justice Project
University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences
- 716-645-2108
- aharr@buffalo.edu