Russell Gold
@ProfRGold
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Professor of law @UALawSchool. Alumnus of @gwlaw (JD '08) and @ASU (BA '04, BS '04). My Tweets are my own.
Tuscaloosa, AL
Joined March 2017
I posted a draft of Look What You Made Me Do to @SSRN: https://t.co/KKx0zCxZpV. Forthcoming @WLULawReview. I argue that criminal procedure coerces defendants into embracing the narrative that their crime was solely their own bad choice.
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In so doing, criminal legal systems obscure the role of systemic forces and wildly divergent opportunities. Forcing people to falsely narrative their own story is troubling. Stifling individuals' stories also impedes counternarratives that could promote public safety reform.
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My article Look What You Made Me Do is now published in @WLULawReview. It explains how criminal procedure conveys the message and coerces defendants to say that their crimes were simply bad individual choices:
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I’m sitting with about 100 public defenders from every corner of the U.S. Blue states, red states. Large and small counties. You need to know something deeply disturbing.
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If you were reconstituting the federal judiciary from scratch, would you choose for it to be wildly disproportionately composed of former prosecutors and other courtroom advocates for govt—with only a smattering of former courtroom *opponents* of govt? Man, I sure wouldn’t.
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This systemic narrative obscures hugely important factors like trauma, addiction, poverty, and mental health challenges that make it harder for some people to comply with the law than others. It prioritizes feeling safe over being safe. It suppresses counternarratives.
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Word is out! After 4 great years at Columbia, I'm returning to NYU as an associate professor of law, beginning July 1. The Science, Health & Information Clinic is coming to NYU with me! Excited to join one of the strongest law & tech programs in the country! Much more to come!
Christopher Morten ’15 returns to NYU Law this summer with his Science, Health, and Information Clinic. Morten’s work focuses on structures that govern how scientific & technical knowledge is created, shared, & withheld: https://t.co/LIZ13poEFd
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I’m excited to report that Look What You Made Me Do is now forthcoming in @WLULawReview. I’m excited to work with editors from @wlulaw. @UALawSchool
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“Look What You Made Me Do” is currently under submission to law journals. In it I examine how criminal process flattens the complex narratives of crime into a simple story of defendants making bad choices. It sometimes coerces defendants into reciting this narrative too.
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Brilliant. Judge Carlton Reeves strikes down federal machine gun ban, not because HE thinks it violates 2Am, but instead because he believes—correctly—that faithful application of Bruen’s historical-tradition framework compels that result. Your move, CA5. https://t.co/yJLhYCKLJI
courtlistener.com
ORDER granting 24 Motion to Dismiss and the case dismissed as to Justin Bryce Brown (1) Signed by District Judge Carlton W. Reeves on 1/29/2025 (cwl) (Entered: 01/29/2025)
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One of the big challenges when you criminalize lots of non-morally-wrongful behavior like we do is whether you’re going to enforce those laws equally against everyone who violates them. As our history demonstrates with ineluctable clarity, the answer is no, no you are not.
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I may stay on here a bit longer, but if you’re on that other site please follow me there too.
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I'm excited to announce that the essay @KayLevine12 and I wrote, Exoneration Finance, is now published: https://t.co/Y60gRWjhSy.
@nyulawreview @UALawSchool @EmoryLaw. We explain how litigation finance can improve access to counsel for wrongful conviction proceedings.
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@AndyHessick @CBHessick @ASFleischman @OTDukeSchneider @NCLRev Yes! This is what I discuss in Jail as Injunction https://t.co/EO9EUIVBwp
@GeorgetownLJ and Paying for Pretrial Detention https://t.co/CNoFqXV6ln
@NCLRev. We get the financial incentives backwards with bail, and we don’t take a careful look at the balance of harms.
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Come join me @UALawSchool! We're hiring an Associate Dean of Experiential Learning, and I'm chairing the search. Here are the postings: https://t.co/QFGePmNZ1S
https://t.co/4Pn3E3DgQM. Please reach out at lawhiring@ua.edu with any questions. Please repost and share widely.
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A truly extraordinary program!
Want to be a public defender with amazing training & supervision? If so, apply to the E. Prettyman program @Georgetownlaw. Have a star law student who wants to be a PD? Encourage them to apply. Applications are due in just 10 days.
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Come join me @UALawSchool! We're hiring an Associate Dean of Experiential Learning, and I'm chairing the search. Here are the postings: https://t.co/QFGePmNZ1S
https://t.co/4Pn3E3DgQM. Please reach out at lawhiring@ua.edu with any questions. Please repost and share widely.
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You can still register for this amazing line up of junior scholars on crim pro, this Friday on zoom. I’m thrilled to be commentating on the insightful and original work of @AnnaFinally! @JustinNYLS @AHoagFordjour
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I'm excited to announce that as of October 1 I'll be the Frank M. Bainbridge-Walter L. Mims Professor of Law at @UALawSchool. I feel so fortunate to work with extroardinary students and colleagues and am grateful to countless mentors over the years.
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