Renée Lettow Lerner

Renée Lettow Lerner is the Donald Phillip Rothschild Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. She writes about and teaches legal history, criminal procedure, and comparative law. She has spent twenty-five years researching the jury—past, present, and around the world. She studied English legal history as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. She graduated from Yale Law School and was a law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was a witness in a murder case in Paris, France, before a mixed panel of professional judges and lay jurors. She was in the jury pool for a criminal case in Washington, DC but was struck after the prosecutor asked her what courses she taught as a law professor, and she said criminal procedure.