University of Oregon School of Law

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Visiting Associate Professor of Law

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Courses
Criminal Adjudication
Criminal Law
Criminal Responsibility

B.A., summa cum laude, University of Central Florida, 1994;
J.D., magna cum laude, Duke University School of Law, 1999.
Professor Rozelle joins the University of Oregon School of Law as a visiting professor for the 2007-2008 school year. An Associate Professor at Capital University Law School, she also has visited at the Seattle University School of Law. Prior to entering the legal academy, she clerked for the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and was a litigation associate with the firm of Nutter, McClennen & Fish in Boston. Her pro bono work includes co-authoring the amicus brief for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Uttecht v. Brown, 127 S. Ct. 2218 (2007), and she serves on the Executive Committee of the AALS Criminal Justice Section as well as chairing the AALS New Law Professors Section Teaching Network. Professor Rozelle's primary research interests lie in the areas of criminal responsibility and death qualification. Her work has been cited by the New York Governor’s Council on Capital Punishment, and by the Law Commission for England and Wales in its Report to Parliament recommending reform of the law of murder and manslaughter. Her latest two articles have spent a collective six weeks as “top-10 downloads” from the Social Science Research Network in the areas of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Corrections & Sentencing Law & Policy, and Evidence & Evidentiary Procedure.

Recent publications

Fear and Loathing in Insanity Law: Explaining the Otherwise Inexplicable Clark v. Arizona, 58 Case Western Reserve Law Review (forthcoming 2007)

The Principled Executioner: Capital Juries’ Bias and the Benefits of True Bifurcation, 38 Arizona State Law Journal 769 (2006)

Controlling Passion: Adultery and the Provocation Defense, 37 Rutgers Law Journal 197 (2005)