James R. Acker, JD, PhD - Distinguished Teaching Professor, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, New York

James R. Acker is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University at Albany School of Criminal Justice.  He earned his JD at Duke Law School and his PhD at the University at Albany.  He is the co-editor, with David Brody, of Criminal Procedure: A Contemporary Perspective (Jones & Bartlett 2004).   He is the author of Scottsboro and Its Legacy: The Cases That Challenged American Legal and Social Justice (Praeger Publishers 2008), and co-editor of The Future of America’s Death Penalty: An Agenda for the Next Generation of Capital Punishment Research (Carolina Academic Press 2009); Wounds That Do Not Bind: Victim-Based Perspectives on the Death Penalty (Carolina Academic Press 2006); and America’s Experiment With Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction (Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed. 2003).

David C. Brody, JD, PhD - Associate Professor, Criminal Justice Program, Washington State University, Spokane

David C. Brody is an associate professor in the Criminal Justice Program at Washington State University.  He received a JD from the University of Arizona College of Law and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany.  He is the author of books on the criminal court system,  criminal law and criminal procedure, and over twenty scholarly articles that have been published in such journals as the American Criminal Law Review, Crime & Delinquency, Denver University Law Review, Hastings Women’s Law Journal, Justice System Journal, and Judicature.  In addition to legal scholarship, David’s research focuses on judicial selection and performance evaluation systems, jury reform, and the interaction between law and criminal justice policy.