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Margo Schlanger
Margo Schlanger, a leading authority on the constitutional law governing prison and jail conditions, and on inmate litigation, is a professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, where her teaching and scholarship combine doctrinal and empirical analysis. Prior to her appointment at Washington University Law School, she was Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard from 1998 to 2004. She began her law career in 1993 as a two-term law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She then moved to the U.S. Department of Justice, where from 1995 through 1998 she was an attorney in the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division and focused on civil investigations and lawsuits against police and correctional systems that were the sites of systemic civil rights violations against inmates and citizens. Margo Schlanger received her J.D. in 1993 from Yale, where she was Book Reviews Editor of the Yale Law Journal and also received the Vinson Prize for excellence in clinical casework.
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