Associate Professor of Law
Professor Sacharoff teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, cybercrime, and international criminal law. He was named outstanding law school professor of the year for 2015, and in 2016, he was named the university-wide rising teacher of the year. Professor Sacharoff will be visiting at George Washington University Law School in Spring 2018.
Professor Sacharoff’s research interests include criminal law and procedure (especially the Fourth Amendment), as well as computer law and encryption. His works have appeared in the Texas Law Review, the Alabama Law Review, and the Washington University Law Review, and have been cited by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and in treatises including LAFAVE, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE and THE NEW WIGMORE: A TREATISE ON EVIDENCE.
Professor Laurent Sacharoff received his B.A. from Princeton University and graduated from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. After law school he clerked for the Honorable John S. Martin, Jr. in the Southern District of New York and then joined the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he was the pro-bono fellow handling prison litigation. In this job, he represented scores of prisoners and won several significant money damages awards for prison beatings, failure to protect, and other constitutional violations. He also served as a litigation associate at Sullivan & Cromwell handling complex commercial litigation.
Professor Sacharoff also worked as a public defender at the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn, New York, where he tried numerous cases to juries, argued suppression motions, and arranged plea deals. Before coming to the University of Arkansas School of Law, he taught at Temple Law School as an Abraham L. Freedman fellow.
He is the Reporter for the Arkansas Criminal Practice Committee.
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About Laurent Sacharoff
Professor Sacharoff teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, cybercrime, and international criminal law. He was named outstanding law school professor of the year for 2015, and in 2016, he was named the university-wide rising teacher of the year. Professor Sacharoff will be visiting at George Washington University Law School in Spring 2018.
Professor Sacharoff’s research interests include criminal law and procedure (especially the Fourth Amendment), as well as computer law and encryption. His works have appeared in the Texas Law Review, the Alabama Law Review, and the Washington University Law Review, and have been cited by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and in treatises including LAFAVE, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE and THE NEW WIGMORE: A TREATISE ON EVIDENCE.
Professor Laurent Sacharoff received his B.A. from Princeton University and graduated from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. After law school he clerked for the Honorable John S. Martin, Jr. in the Southern District of New York and then joined the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he was the pro-bono fellow handling prison litigation. In this job, he represented scores of prisoners and won several significant money damages awards for prison beatings, failure to protect, and other constitutional violations. He also served as a litigation associate at Sullivan & Cromwell handling complex commercial litigation.
Professor Sacharoff also worked as a public defender at the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn, New York, where he tried numerous cases to juries, argued suppression motions, and arranged plea deals. Before coming to the University of Arkansas School of Law, he taught at Temple Law School as an Abraham L. Freedman fellow.
He is the Reporter for the Arkansas Criminal Practice Committee.