Paul G. Cassell
Special Counsel
Professor Paul G. Cassell is one of the leading legal scholars in the country.
Cassell is a leading researcher on civil and criminal justice issues and has published many widely-cited articles on topics such as crime victims' rights, wrongful convictions, interrogation and confessions, and proactive policing.
In addition to being special counsel to the firm, Paul G. Cassell is the Ronald N. Boyce Presidential Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Utah School of Law.
Education
B.A., Economics, Stanford University
J.D., Stanford Law School, Stanford University
– President, Stanford Law Review
Past activities
Paul G. Cassell is a former United States District Court Judge for the District of Utah.
Clerkships
Judge Antonin Scalia, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Chief Justice Warren Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court
Following law school and his clerkships, Cassell then served as an Associate Deputy Attorney General with the U.S. Justice Department (1986-88) and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (1988 to 1991). Cassell joined the faculty at the College of Law in 1992, where he taught full time. In November 2007, he resigned his judgeship to return full time to the College of Law to teach, write, and litigate on issues relating to crime victims' rights and criminal justice reform.
Cassell has argued pro bono cases relating to crime victims' rights before the United States Supreme Court, the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, and D.C. Circuits, several U.S. District Courts, the Utah Supreme Court, the Arizona Supreme Court, and various other courts around the country.
Cassell is a member of the American Law Institute and fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Cassell teaches criminal procedure, crime victims' rights, criminal law, and related classes. He has also pubished numerous law review articles on criminal justice issues in journals such as the Stanford Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. He is a co-author of the nation's only law school textbook on crime victims' rights, Victims in Criminal Procedure (various editions, most recently in its fourth edition published in 2018).