Faculty and Administration Profiles
Stephen Rushin
Title/s: Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Judge Hubert Louis Will Professor of Law
Office #: Corboy 1235
Phone: 312.915.7691
Email: srushin1@luc.edu
CV Link: Rushin CV
About
Professor Rushin teaches Criminal Law, Evidence, and Police Accountability. His research interests include policing, criminal procedure, and criminal sentencing. His work has recently appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the California Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, and the Florida Law Review, among other journals. Cambridge University Press published his book, “Federal Intervention in American Police Departments,” in 2017.
He has served in a variety of advisory roles related to his expertise in criminal justice policy and social science, including a previous gubernatorial appointment as the academic advisor to the Illinois Racial Profiling Prevention and Data Oversight Board between 2020 and 2022.
Professor Rushin has won multiple teaching awards, including “Professor of the Year” in 2020. As Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, he manages law school curriculum and develops academic policies. Before joining Loyola in 2017, he taught at the University of Alabama School of Law and the University of Illinois College of Law.
Degrees
BA, Texas, 2008
JD, Berkeley, 2011
PhD, Berkeley, 2015
Program Areas
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Policing
Sentencing
Civil Rights
Empirical Legal Studies
Courses Taught
Criminal Law
Evidence
Police Accountability
Selected Publications
Professor Stephen Rushin’s SSRN webpage
Selected Publications
The Effect of Police Quota Laws, 109 Iowa Law Review (forthcoming) (with Edwards)
The Law Enforcement Lobby, 106 Minnesota Law Review (forthcoming) (with Robinson)
An Empirical Assessment of Pretextual Stops and Racial Profiling, 73 Stanford Law Review 637 (2021) (with Edwards)
Police Arbitration, 74 Vanderbilt Law Review 1023 (2021)
State Attorneys General as Agents of Police Reform, 69 Duke Law Journal 999 (2020) (with Mazzone)
Police Funding, 71 Florida Law Review 277 (2020) (with Michalski)
Police Disciplinary Appeals, 167 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 545 (2019)
The Effects of Voluntary and Presumptive Sentencing Guidelines, 98 Texas Law Review 1 (2019) (with Edwards & Colquitt)