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Criminal Law Degree Concentration: Faculty

Adam Benforado

Adam Benforado

Adam Benforado’s principal focus is on criminal justice and children’s rights. He is particularly interested in bringing insights from the mind sciences—most notably cognitive psychology—to law and legal theory. Collaborating with psychologists on novel experiments, Professor Benforado is committed to developing a more realistic understanding of the behavior of legal actors. He was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for his empirical work investigating human intuitions about punishment, and he is currently a member of the Child Brain Policy Initiative at the California Institute for Law, Neuroscience, and Education.


Dean Daniel M. Filler

Daniel M. Filler

Dean Daniel Filler was an inaugural faculty member of the Kline School of Law, helping design and implement the distinctive vision that drives the law school.  He became dean of Kline Law in January 2017.  He previously served as a professor of law at the University of Alabama School of Law.


Professor Anil Kalhan

Anil Kalhan

Professor Kalhan has written and taught in areas including immigration law, constitutional law, legislation and regulation, and privacy and surveillance, criminal law, and international human rights, and has worked extensively on academic freedom issues in a variety of capacities. His research has examined themes including the growing and transformative use of surveillance technologies for immigration control purposes; the expansion of immigration detention; judicial independence and judicial politics in the United States, Pakistan, and India; and issues that arise when legal regimes span periods of authoritarian and democratic rule.


Vineet Gauri

JD, Boston University
BSE, University of Michigan

Vineet Gauri is currently Of Counsel at Barnes & Thornburg in Philadelphia. From 2007-2025, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, including as Deputy Criminal Chief and Chief of National Security & Cybercrime.

Judy Goldstein Smith

J.D., Northwestern University School of Law
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Professor Smith has been an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania specializing in complex health care, tax, securities, consumer and financial frauds, corruption, terrorism, narcotics and other federal crimes since 1980. She has previously served as an adjunct professor at Villanova University School of Law and Rutgers University School of Law-Camden teaching advanced criminal procedure and criminal litigation courses. She has received numerous Department of Justice awards including the Director's award and awards for her public service.