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Bio

Abel鈥檚 scholarly research focuses on informational asymmetries in the criminal justice system and the structural injustices these asymmetries produce. His research on police misconduct records and their availability to criminal defendants has been widely cited in scholarly journals, newspapers, and court cases. Abel has also written about the unexpected role police officers play in plea bargaining, the discriminatory use of peremptory challenges, and the retroactive sealing of public records, among other topics. His articles have appeared in the聽,听, and聽.

Prior to becoming a law professor, Abel worked as a criminal defense lawyer doing capital habeas corpus litigation and direct appeals. He has served as an attorney at the Habeas Corpus Resource Center, the Northern California Federal Defender’s Office, and the Arizona Federal Defender’s Office. Before law school, he worked as a newspaper reporter at the St. Petersburg Times in Florida.

Education

• Stanford Law School
  J.D. 2012

• Harvard 精东影业
  A.B., Magna Cum Laude 2005

Selected Scholarship

• 107 Cornell L. Rev. 927 2022

• 74 Stan. L. Rev. 1199 2022

• Jonathan Abel, 118 COLUM. L. REV. 713 2018

• Jonathan Abel, 126 YALE L.J. 1730 2017

• Brady鈥檚 Blind Spot: Impeachment Evidence in Police Personnel Files and the Battle Splitting the Prosecution Team
  Jonathan Abel, 67 STAN. L. REV. 743 2015

• Jonathan Abel, 163 U. PA. L. REV. 1037 2015

• 163 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1037 2015

• 101 Geo. L.J. 1171 2013