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Brooks, Justin
Books
- Wrongful Convictions: Cases and Materials (4th ed., Vandeplas Publishing 2025)
- You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent (University of California Press 2023)
- Wrongful Convictions: Cases and Materials (3 ed., Vandeplas Publishing 2018)
- Wrongful Convictions: Cases and Materials (2 ed., Vandeplas Publishing 2014)
- Wrongful Convictions: Cases and Materials (1 ed., Vandeplas Publishing 2011)
Journal Articles
- If Hindsight Is 20/20, Our Justice System Shouldn’t Be Blind to New Evidence of Innocence: A Survey of Post-Conviction New Evidence Statutes and a Proposed Model, 79 Albany Law Review (2016) (with Simpson & Kaneb)
- Wrongfully Convicted in California: Are there Connections Between Exonerations, Prosecutorial and Police Procedures, and Justice Reforms?, 45 Hofstra Law Review 373 (2016) (with Zach Brooks)
- Innocence Work in the Americas, University of Milan Law Review (2015)
- Find the Cost of Freedom: The Struggle to Compensate the Innocent for Wrongful Incarceration and the Strange Legal Odyssey of Timothy Atkins, 49 San Diego Law Review 3 (2012) (with Simpson)
- Redinocente: The Challenge of Bringing Innocence Work to Latin America, 80 University of Cincinnati Law Review (2012)
- Blood Sugar Sex Magic: A Review of Post-Conviction DNA Testing Statutes and Legislative Recommendations, Drake Law Review (2011) (with Simpson)
- The Hurricane Meets the Paper Chase: Innocence Projects New Emerging Role in Clinical Legal Education, 38 California Western Law Review 413 (2002) (with Stiglitz and Shulman)
- Will Boys Just be “Boyz N the Hood? African-American Directors Portray a Crumbling Justice System in Urban America, 22 Oklahoma City University Law Review 1 (1997)
- How Can We Sleep While the Beds Are Burning? The Tumultuous Prison Culture of Attica Flourishes in American Prisons Twenty-Five Years Later, 45 Syracuse Law Review 159 (1996)
- The Dire Wolf Collects his Due While the Boys Sit by the Fire: Michigan Cannot Afford to Buy into the Death Penalty, 13 Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law Review 877 (1996)
- It's a Family Affair – The Incarceration of the American Family: Confronting Legal and Social Issues, 28 University of San Francisco Law Review 271 (1994) (with Bahna)
- Exile on Main Street...Inmate Transfers From Puerto Rico to the Continental United States Violate Due Process, 27 Interamericana Law Review 1 (1993)
- Addressing Recidivism: Legal Education in Correctional Settings, 44 Rutgers Law Review 699 (1992)