Mary D. Fan
Professor Mary Fan's work focuses on policing, prosecution, cross-border crimes and the intersection of criminal and immigration (crimmigration) law. Her research and teaching 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 worked with Judge O-Gon Kwon on cases of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide and clerked for the Hon. John T. Noonan, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 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 research and writings in 2011-2012 will be published by Oxford University Press, NYU Press, the Washington University Law Review (Washington University in St. Louis), U.C. Davis Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Washington Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law and the peer-reviewed Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics. 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.