The Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences are pleased to present the 5th Ray Paternoster Memorial Lecture and reception in honor of Professor Ray Paternoster to celebrate his life and scholarship in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and in the profession. We are honored to welcome Professor Tracey L. Meares as this year’s distinguished speaker.

About the Speaker:

Tracey L. Meares is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor and a Founding Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. Before joining the faculty at Yale, she was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1995 to 2007, serving as Max Pam Professor and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice. She was the first African American woman to be granted tenure at both law schools.

Professor Meares is a nationally recognized expert on policing in urban communities. Her research focuses on understanding how members of the public think about their relationship(s) with legal authorities such as police, prosecutors and judges. She teaches courses on criminal procedure, criminal law, and policy and she has worked extensively with the federal government having served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Law and Justice, a National Research Council standing committee and the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs Science Advisory Board.

In April 2019, Professor Meares was elected as a member to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In December 2014, President Obama named her as a member of his Task Force on 21st Century Policing. She has a B.S. in general engineering from the University of Illinois and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. For more information, visit here.

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

• 1:30-2:30 p.m. Lecture, Stamp, Juan Ramon Jimenez 2208
• 2:30-4:00 p.m. Reception, Stamp, Benjamin Banneker 2212

Please RSVP by Friday, April 25, 2024.

For additional information or questions, contact Jessica Townsend, jessicat [at] umd.edu.

Additional gifts in honor of Professor Ray Paternoster can be made here.