Lara Bazelon
Lara Bazelon (born February 14, 1974) is an American academic and journalist. She is a law professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law where she holds the Barnett Chair in Trial Advocacy and directs the Criminal & Juvenile and Racial Justice Clinics. She is the former director of the Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent in Los Angeles. Her clinical work as a law professor focuses on the exoneration of the wrongfully convicted.
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| Born | February 14, 1974 |
| Education | Columbia University (BA) New York University (JD) |
| Occupation(s) | Law professor, journalist, essayist |
| Employer | University of San Francisco |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times Slate The Atlantic |
| Office | Barnett Chair in Trial Advocacy |
| Relatives | David L. Bazelon (grandfather) Emily Bazelon (sister) |
She is the author of two nonfiction books: Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction (Beacon Press 2018) and Ambitious Like a Mother: Why Prioritizing Your Career is Good For Your Kids (Little Brown 2022), and the author of the novel A Good Mother (Hanover Sq. Press 2021).