Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison
Daniel Medwed is a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston. He focuses his research and pro bono activities around the topic of wrongful convictions. His recent book, Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison (Hachette/Basic Books, 2022), which was named one of the "Best Fall Books" by Bloomberg last year, explores the range of procedural barriers that so often prevent innocent prisoners from obtaining exoneration. He is a founding member of the board of directors of the Innocence Network, a consortium of innocence projects throughout the world, and currently serves on the board of the New England Innocence Project.
Professor Medwed was appointed to the rank of University Distinguished Professor in 2018, which is the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a Northeastern faculty member. He has earned many teaching prizes over the course of his career. Prior to joining Northeastern, Medwed taught at the University of Utah. He previously served as an instructor at Brooklyn Law School and helped oversee the school’s Second Look Program, where he worked with students to investigate and litigate innocence claims by New York prisoners. He has also worked as an associate appellate counsel at the Legal Aid Society, Criminal Appeals Bureau, of New York City.
Professor Medwed’s lecture is co-sponsored by the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights and the Salvatori Center for Individual Freedom at Claremont McKenna College.