Prosecutorial Discretion – Police Killings and Sexual Abuse

Bruce A. Green is the Louis Stein Chair of Law at Fordham Law School, where he directs the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics. A leading scholar of legal ethics and criminal law, he is co-author of the casebook Professional Responsibility: A Contemporary Approach and received the ABA's Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award in 2018. He previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief Appellate Attorney in the Southern District of New York and clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge James L. Oakes of the Second Circuit, and he has held leadership roles in the ABA Criminal Justice Section and on the professional ethics committees of the ABA and the New York State Bar Association. Rebecca Roiphe is the Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor of Law at New York Law School, where she teaches professional responsibility, criminal procedure, ethics in criminal practice, and American legal history, and writes on prosecutorial ethics and the relationship between the President and the Department of Justice. A former Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, where she prosecuted white-collar crime, she clerked for Judge Bruce M. Selya of the First Circuit and practiced white-collar defense at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. She appears regularly as a legal analyst on CBS News, and City & State named her a 2024 Trailblazer in Law. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Chicago.