Professor Jones is an associate law professor at the Washington College of Law. She was hired as a full-time professor in 2004, and received tenure in 2010. She teaches courses in Evidence, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and a seminar on “Race, Crime and Politics.” Recently, Professor Jones received the American University 2011 University Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching. Professor Jones was also recognized as one the 2011 LexisNexis Technology Leaders in the Classroom for her innovative and creative use of film and other electronic media in her classes. Professor Jones is the writer and executive producer of “Fighting Evidence with Evidence,” an animated short film on the Federal Rules of Evidence for which she was awarded the 2009 Teaching with Technology Award from the American University Center for Teaching Excellence. Prof. Jones currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (“PDS”) and the Director of the American Bar Association Racial Justice Improvement Project, a program designed to implement policy reforms to remedy racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Professor Jones researches, writes and lectures across the country on the reforms needed to prevent wrongful convictions and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project. Upon graduating from the Washington College of Law, Professor Jones served as a law clerk to the Honorable Frank E. Schwelb of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and worked as an associate at the law firm of Dickstein, Shapiro and Morin before working as a public defender for five years. Prior to becoming the Executive Director of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia in 2000, Professor Jones was the Deputy Director of the D.C. Pretrial Services Agency.
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Concurrent Session 2E. Race and the Criminal Justice System- Harmonizing Clinical and Doctrinal Teaching to Advance Social Justice: Part One (with Amna Akbar, Adam Gershowitz, Brooks Holland, John King, Nancy Leong, Jenny Roberts, and Robin Walker Sterling), SALT Teaching Conference: Teaching Social Justice, Expanding Access to Justice: The Role of Legal Education & The Legal Profession (2012)
Examines how clinical and doctrinal faculty can work together to overcome the difficult challenges in...
Mastering Criminal Procedure: Volume 1: The Investigative Stage., Books (2010)
Mastering Criminal Procedure, Volume 1: The Investigative Stage provides a concise treatment of the relevant...
The Right Remedy for the Wrongly Convicted: Judicial Sanction for Destruction of DNA Evidence, Fordham Law Review (2009)
Many state innocence protection statutes give courts the power to impose appropriate sanctions when biological...
The Right Remedy for the Wrongly Convicted: Judicial Sanctions for Destruction of DNA Evidence, Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals (2009)
Many state innocence protection statutes give courts the power to impose appropriate sanctions when biological...