Lynn Branham
Lynn Branham
Main Classroom Building, Room 306
J.D., University of Chicago
B.A., University of Illinois
Lynn Branham is a visiting professor. She’ll be visiting with us for the Spring 2025 semester, teaching Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure – Adjudication.
Lynn Branham’s expertise centers on restorative justice as well as sentencing and correctional law and policy. Professor Branham has held numerous leadership positions in the American Bar Association, serving, for example, as a member of the Criminal Justice Section’s Council, Co-Executive Director of the Equal Justice Division, Chair and later Co-Chair of the Corrections Committee, and Chair of the Subcommittee on Effective Prison Oversight. A member of the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections for sixteen years (fourteen as the ABA’s representative), she received the American Correctional Association’s Walter Dunbar Award for her efforts to improve the ACA accreditation process.
The primary focus of Professor Branham’s current research is on the integration of restorative justice into criminal-justice systems and communities’ responses to crime and on affording victim-survivors a right of access to restorative justice. Her numerous publications also include casebooks and articles on correctional and sentencing law and policy.
Professor Branham has provided training to federal judges and court staff at twenty-two workshops sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center, and she is a member and former chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP). She has a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and an M.S. in Restorative Practices from the IIRP.
Select Recent and Forthcoming Publications
THE LAW AND POLICY OF SENTENCING, 11th edition (West Academic Publishing) (scheduled
for publication in 2025)
THE LAW AND POLICY OF SENTENCING, 10th edition (West Academic Publishing, 2018)
THE LAW AND POLICY OF SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS IN A NUTSHELL, 11th
edition (West Academic Publishing, 2022), 10th edition (West Academic Publishing, 2017), 9th
edition (Thomson Reuters/West, 2013), 8th edition (Thomson Reuters/West, 2010), 7th edition
(Thomson Reuters/West, 2005)
THE LAW AND POLICY OF SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS, 9th edition (Thomson
Reuters/West, 2013), 8th edition (Thomson Reuters/West, 2009), 7th edition (Thomson
Reuters/West, 2005)
Book Chapters and Law Review Articles and Essays
“Pointing the Way . . . In the Wrong Direction: The Model Penal Code: Sentencing’s Errant
Approach to Restorative Justice and its Role in Sentencing” (scheduled for publication in the Cornell
Journal of Law and Public Policy in 2024)
"The Overlooked Victim Right: According Victim-Survivors a Right of Access to Restorative
Justice," 98 Denver Law Review Forum 1 (2021)
"'Stealing Conflicts' No More?: The Gaps and Anti-Restorative Elements in States’ Restorative-
Justice Laws," 64 Saint Louis University Law Journal 145 (2020)
"Eradicating the Label 'Offender' From the Lexicon of Restorative Practices and Criminal Justice," 9
Wake Forest Law Review Online 53 (2019)
"Plowing in Hope: A Three-Part Framework for Incorporating Restorative Justice into Sentencing
and Correctional Systems," 38 William Mitchell Law Review 1261 (2012)
"'The Mess We’re In': Five Steps Towards the Transformation of Prison Cultures," 44 Indiana Law
Review 703 (2011)
"Accrediting the Accreditors: A New Paradigm for Correctional Oversight," 30 Pace Law Review
1656 (2010)