Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. joined the faculty of Yale Law School in July 2004, where, after his first year of teaching, he won the Law School’s award for outstanding teaching. His areas of interest include criminal law, criminal procedure, legal ethics, and race theory. Professor Sullivan is the founding director of the Samuel and Anna Jacobs Criminal Justice Clinic. He is a founding fellow of the Jamestown Project at Yale. Professor Sullivan spent a year in Nairobi, Kenya, where he helped draft Kenya’s new constitution and also worked with the Kenya Human Rights Commission. In the United States, he has worked as staff attorney, General Counsel, and Director for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Professor Sullivan testified at the recent Samuel A. Alito confirmation hearings for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College, and Harvard Law School.

Education
J.D., Harvard, 1994
B.A., Morehouse College, 1989

Courses Taught
Advanced Criminal Defense Clinic
Criminal Defense Clinic Part I: Theory and Practice
Criminal Defense Clinic Part II
Criminal Procedure