- Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center
- Lecturer in Law
- Room 383, Crown Quadrangle
Expertise
- Criminology/Criminal Law Policymaking
- Sentencing & Corrections
Biography
Debbie Mukamal is the Executive Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center at Stanford Law School. During her 25-year career she has launched and managed several major projects and initiatives related to improving the criminal justice system. Her current portfolio of work includes directing the Regilla Project, an effort to study the frequency with which women in the United States are imprisoned for killing their abusers, and the Center’s efforts to examine the move to virtual technology for criminal proceedings. Previous projects have included leading the Center’s efforts to address the admission bars to law school and the State Bar for people with criminal records; co-founding and running Project ReMADE, an entrepreneurship bootcamp for people with criminal records; and co-directing Renewing Communities (www.correctionstocollegeca.
Related Organizations
Courses
- Directed Research
- Police and Prisons: German and American Approaches to Reform and Abolition
- Policy Practicum: Creating a National Census of Women Imprisoned for Murdering their Abusers
- Policy Practicum: Moving Forward from Dobbs
- Policy Practicum: Regilla Project: Women Incarcerated for Killing their Abusers
- Policy Practicum: Supporting the San Quentin Transformation Advisory Council