Lara Bazelon is a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law where she holds the Barnett Chair in Trial Advocacy and directs the criminal and racial justice clinics. Her recent scholarship has focused on restorative justice as an alternative to the criminal adjudicatory process. She is the author of the book RECTIFY: THE POWER OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AFTER WRONGFUL CONVICTION (Beacon 2018) and the forthcoming book AMBITIOUS LIKE A MOTHER. Her long form pieces, essays, and op-eds have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Magazine, Slate, and many other media outlets.