Tracey Meares is Deputy Dean and Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She received her B.S. in General Engineering from the University of Illinois and her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. Upon graduation, Professor Meares clerked for Judge Harlington Wood, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, then served as an Honors Program Trial Attorney in the Antitrust Division in the United States Department of Justice, before joining the University of Chicago law faculty in 1994. Her research and teaching interests center on criminal procedure and criminal law policy, with a particular emphasis on empirical investigation of these subjects.

Education
J.D., University of Chicago, 1991
B.S., University of Illinois, 1988

Courses Taught
Criminal Law and Administration
Criminal Procedure