University of Utah : S.J. Quinney College of Law

Daniel S. Medwed

Professor of Law

Professor Medwed joined the faculty as an associate professor of law Fall Semester 2004. For the previous four years, he was an instructor at Brooklyn Law School and also served as assistant director of the school's Second Look Program, where he worked with students in investigating and litigating innocence claims by New York state prisoners. His research and teaching interests revolve primarily around criminal law, with a particular emphasis on the issue of wrongful convictions. Professor Medwed has also worked in private practice and has been an associate appellate counsel at the Legal Aid Society, Criminal Appeals Bureau, of New York City.

During his time at Brooklyn, he was twice voted Professor of the Year by the graduating class of students.   He has also received university-wide recognition for his teaching since arriving at Utah, earning a 2008 Early Career Teaching Award from the University Teaching Committee and a 2006 Student Choice Teaching Award from the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU).  In addition, he was awarded the College of Law's 2009 Early Career Faculty Award for combined excellence in scholarship, teaching, and service by a junior faculty member.

Professor Medwed teaches criminal law, evidence, wrongful convictions, civil rights law.

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