Alan Raphael

Professor Raphael has taught at the law school since 1983. His current classes are constitutional law, Criminal Procedure: adjudication, and Criminal procedure: investigation. In the Fall of 2023, he will be adding a new course, a seminar on Race and Criminal Justice. He has previously taught course in a wide variety of areas, including sales, business associations, international human rights, law and international terrorism, first amendment law, comparative law, and seminars in the law of the First and Sixth Amendments. His writing is concentrated on issues of race, first amendment law, and criminal procedure.

Before becoming an attorney, he taught on the college and high school levels, and worked for three years in an organization advocating for prisoners and ex-prisoners. As an attorney, he worked in a large civil litigation firm, clerked for the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and has provided pro bono representation to about forty clients challenging their convictions for murder or other serious criminal offenses; in that capacity, he argued cases before the state and federal appellate courts and the Illinois Supreme Court. Professor Raphael served a four year term as an elected trustee of the Village of Oak Park and in appointed positions in that community as Chair of the Board of Health and member of the Zoning Board of Appeals.

Raphael received his B.A. from Haverford College (1966), a Master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago (1968 and 1972 (History)), and a J.D. degree from Indiana Univeristy (Indianapolis 1979). He has been admitted to the bars of the states of Indiana and Illinois and to the trial level and appellate federal courts in Illinois.