Jordan Steiker, Columnist

Jordan Steiker is an expert on capital punishment and constitutional law and serves as co-director of the Texas Law Capital Punishment Center. He has written extensively on constitutional law, federal habeas corpus, and the death penalty, including a co-authored report to the American Law Institute prompting the withdrawal of the death penalty provisions of the Model Penal Code. Before joining Texas Law, Professor Steiker served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court.