Prof. I. Bennett Capers

Bennett Capers is the Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Chair and Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, where he serves as Associate Dean for Research and directs the Center on Race, Law, and Justice. He is an expert in criminal law and procedure, and evidence law. Prior to joining Fordham, he taught at Brooklyn Law School, where he was the Stanley A. August Professor of Law, and before that at Hofstra University School of Law, where he served as Associate Dean of Faculty Development in 2010-11. Prior to teaching, he spent nearly ten years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. His work trying several federal racketeering cases earned him a nomination for the Department of Justice’s Director’s Award in 2004. He also practiced with the firms of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Willkie Farr & Gallagher. He clerked for the Hon. John S. Martin, Jr. of the Southern District of New York. His numerous articles and essays have been published in leading law reviews, including the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, and Michigan Law Review, and he is the co-editor of Critical Race Judgments and Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions (Cambridge University Press). He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and has been appointed to the New York State Judicial Screening Committee. In 2013, he served as Chairperson of the AALS 2013 Conference on Criminal Justice. That same year, Judge Scheindlin appointed him to Chair the Academic Advisory Council to assist in implementing the remedial order in the stop-and-frisk class action Floyd v. City of New York. He has also served as a Commissioner on the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board.