Justin Marceau joined the faculty at the Sturm College of Law in 2008. Prior to joining the faculty at the College of Law, Professor Marceau clerked for the Honorable Sydney R. Thomas, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked as a litigation associate with the law firm Heller Ehrman, LLP (San Francisco). More recently, Professor Marceau was an Assistant Federal Public Defender (District of Arizona) specializing in capital habeas corpus appeals. He continues to assist in the representation of some of his former clients, and remains in contact with many others. Professor Marceau’s research interests include habeas corpus, the death penalty, criminal procedure, criminal law, constitutional law and federal courts. Professor Marceau has been involved in a variety of pro bono legal work since joining the faculty, including authoring an amicus curiae brief in the United States Supreme Court, and joining another amicus brief drafted on behalf of “Scholars of Habeas Corpus Law.” Professor Marceau has published articles in the Hastings Law Journal, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Tulane Law Review and the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, among others.

Featured Publications

• ADJUDICATIVE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE , (co-author) West, expected Fall (2012).
• Remedying Pretrial Ineffective Assistance, TEX. TECH. L. REV. (in progress and solicited for symposium). (2012).
• Challenging the Habeas Process Rather than the Result , WASH. & LEE L. REV. (forthcoming 2012).
• Pretrial Ineffective Assistance, U. PENN. J. CONST. L (forthcoming 2012).
• The Freezing of the Fourth Amendment, SEARCH & SEIZURE LAW REPORT (forthcoming 2012).