Stephen Rushin

Professor Rushin teaches Criminal Law, Evidence, and Police Accountability. His research interests include policing, criminal procedure, and criminal sentencing. His work has recently appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the California Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, and the Florida Law Review, among other journals. Cambridge University Press published his book, Federal Intervention in American Police Departments, in 2017.

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.