Stephen Rushin
Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development; Judge Hubert Louis Will Professor of Law
Professor Rushin teaches Criminal Law, Evidence, and Police Accountability. His research interests include policing, criminal procedure, and criminal sentencing. His published work has appeared in many of the nation’s top flagship law reviews, including the Stanford Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Cornell Law Review (twice), the Duke Law Journal (twice), the California Law, the Texas Law Review, and the Vanderbilt Law Review, as well as a variety of peer-reviewed and specialized outlets. He has served in a variety of advisory roles related to his expertise in criminal justice policy and social science, including a previous gubernatorial appointment as the academic advisor to the Illinois Racial Profiling Prevention and Data Oversight Board between 2020 and 2022.
Professor Rushin has won multiple teaching awards, including “Professor of the Year” in 2020. Before joining Loyola in 2017, he taught at the University of Alabama School of Law and the University of Illinois College of Law. Professor Rushin currently serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development. He previously served as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs from 2022 to 2024.
Education
BA, Texas, 2008
JD, Berkeley, 2011
PhD, Berkeley, 2015
Courses Taught
Criminal Law
Evidence
Police Accountability
Publications/Research Listings
Professor Stephen Rushin’s SSRN webpage
An Empirical Examination of the Dangerous Patient Exception, 111 Cornell Law Review (forthcoming) (with Edwards and Landes)
Constraining Police Authority to Save Lives: Limiting Traffic Stops, 57 Arizona State Law Journal (forthcoming) (with Bell)
De-Policing: An Updated Empirical Analysis of Crime and Federal Police Reform, 82 Washington & Lee Law Review (forthcoming) (with Edwards)
The Effect of Police Quota Laws, 109 Iowa Law Review 2127 (2024) (with Edwards)
The Law Enforcement Lobby, 106 Minnesota Law Review 1965 (2023) (with Robinson)
Police Vehicle Searches and Racial Profiling: An Empirical Study, 91 Fordham Law Review 1 (2022) (with Edwards)
An Empirical Assessment of Pretextual Stops and Racial Profiling, 73 Stanford Law Review 637 (2021) (with Edwards)
Police Arbitration, 74 Vanderbilt Law Review 1023 (2021)
State Attorneys General as Agents of Police Reform, 69 Duke Law Journal 999 (2020) (with Mazzone)
Police Funding, 71 Florida Law Review 277 (2020) (with Michalski)
Police Disciplinary Appeals, 167 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 545 (2019)
The Effects of Voluntary and Presumptive Sentencing Guidelines, 98 Texas Law Review 1 (2019) (with Edwards & Colquitt)