Mary D. Fan
Professor Mary Fan specializes in criminal law and procedure and cost-efficient alternatives to criminalization and incarceration. Her writing and teaching on policing, prosecution and crimmigration are informed by experiences working as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of California and as an Associate Legal Officer at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. She clerked for the Hon. John T. Noonan, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked with Judge O-Gon Kwon at the ICTY. Professor Fan has commented on issues within her expertise for a diverse range of media, from Al-Jazeera International to Fox News, as well as local news organizations. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
Professor Fan's most recent publications include "States Enacting Out: Friend-Enemy Laws" and "The Law of Immigration and Crime" in books forthcoming from NYU Press and Oxford University Press; "Beyond Budget-Cut Criminal Justice" in the North Carolina Law Review; the "Police Gamesmanship Dilemma" and "Sex, Privacy, and Public Health in a Casual Encounters Culture" in the UC Davis Law Review; "Structural Reform Bargaining and Police Regulation by Data-Driven Surveillance" in the Washington Law Review; "Rebellious State Crimmigration Enforcement and the Foreign Affairs Power" in the Washington University Law Review; "Decentralizing STD Surveillance" in the peer-reviewed Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics; and the coauthored International Criminal Law: Cases and Commentary (Oxford University Press). She joined the University of Washington in 2010 from the law faculty of the American University Washington College of Law in Washington DC. Professor Fan received her JD from Yale Law School and her MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Scholar. At Yale, she was a Notes Editor for the Yale Law Journal, a Managing Editor for the Yale Journal of International Law, a Coker Teaching Fellow, and was awarded the Jewell Prize and Nathan Burkan Prize for two of her publications.