Eve Hanan

Criminal Law and Procedure Research

Eve Hanan is a Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She brings extensive experience in criminal defense, having served as a public defender at the trial and appellate levels in Boston and Washington D.C. She also served as a restorative justice facilitator for court-involved youth in Baltimore City. Hanan entered academia to teach about our criminal legal systems and to research and write about the pressing issues faced by people who are targeted for policing, prosecution, and punishment.

Her interdisciplinary scholarship analyzes the perspectives of the accused in criminal cases and the epistemic injustice caused by excluding their voices from legal decisions and policy making. She believes that the lived experiences of people targeted by criminal systems is critical to transforming unjust policies and legal practices. She has also published on racial bias in judicial assessments of remorse at sentencing, the perils of criminal justice reforms that rely on acts of discretion, and the lack of scientific validity behind the claim of characterological criminality. 

Hanan puts her experience and scholarship to work in collaborations with lawmakers and advocacy organizations such as ACLU Nevada, If/When/How, Return Strong, and the Fines and Fees Justice Center. She has a JD from the University of Michigan Law School.