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Reed, Roark M.

Director of Clinical Education, Director of Criminal Justice Clinic and Professor of Law

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Bio

Professor Reed teaches primarily in the area of criminal procedure and litigation. He has co-directed the Criminal Clinic. He also teaches evidence, a course on expert testimony offered jointly with the University of Texas, Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and a course on the Japanese legal system. He is the co-author of the pioneering work with Professor Masahito Inouye and Judge Megumi Yamamuro, Amerika No Keiji Tetsuzuki (American Criminal Procedure) and co-authored with Dr. Irving C. Stone, Expert Testimony, A Series of Simulations. He was on the board of advisers for the Bureau of National Affairs Criminal Practice Manual from 1986-1991 and is a lifetime member of Nihon Keiho Kyoko (hon). In 1982, Professor Reed was awarded a Fulbright Lectureship to Japan where he taught at Tokyo University Law School and Rikyo Law School. He returned to Japan in 1989-90 on a second Fulbright Lectureship where he taught a comparative course on American and Japanese criminal procedure at Tokyo University Law School. He served as associate dean for clinical education from 1983 to 1988. He served as a staff attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and as director of the Criminal Justice Clinic, Maryland Division, at Georgetown University Law Center before joining the faculty of SMU.

Other

FIFTY YEARS GROWTH OF THE JAPANESE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1148 Jurist 190 (1999).

CRIMINAL JUSTICE CLINIC TRIAL HANDBOOK, Teaching materials, McCullom & Reed, 226p, 2001 (self published).

 



Curriculum Vitae

 

Education

B.S., B.A., 1965, Georgetown University
J.D., 1969, Georgetown University