Eve Hanan

Professor of Law
Director of the Misdemeanor Clinic
Areas of Expertise:
Criminal Law Evidence Clinical Legal Education & Teaching Restorative Justice
Curriculum Vitae:
Education:
  • J.D., University of Michigan Law School

Eve Hanan

Professor of Law
Director of the Misdemeanor Clinic
Areas of Expertise:
Criminal Law Evidence Clinical Legal Education & Teaching Restorative Justice
Bio:

Professor Eve Hanan teaches evidence, criminal law, constitutional criminal procedure, and specialized courses on the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and on misdemeanor law and policy. She also developed and taught law school clinics focused on misdemeanor defense and parole release for juvenile lifers. Hanan has extensive experience in criminal defense at the trial and appellate levels, having practiced as a public defender in Boston and at the D.C. Public Defender Service. Her interdisciplinary scholarship analyzes the experience and perspectives of the accused in criminal cases and the epistemic injustice caused by excluding their voices from legal decisions and policy making. She has published on, among other issues, racial bias in judicial assessments of defendant remorse at sentencing, the injustice of excluding incarcerated voices from policy decisions about sentencing and prison conditions, and the power dynamics that compel defendants to cooperate against their own interests in judicial hearings. She is a Board Member of the UNLV Program on Race, Gender, and Policing, and an appointed member of the Nevada Sentencing Commission’s Misdemeanor Subcommittee.