Ellen Yaroshefsky

Ellen Yaroshefsky is the Howard Lichtenstein professor of legal ethics and director of the Monroe Freedman Institute for the study of legal ethics at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. She is on the executive committee of the ABA Criminal Justice Section Council and is cochair of its Prosecutorial Independence Taskforce. Ellen is currently in Brazil as a recently named Fulbright U.S. Scholar, researching and teaching on wrongful conviction issues, including prosecutorial discretion, plea bargaining and charging decisions. She was previously on the executive session of the Institute for the Innovation of Prosecution at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice where she engaged with prosecutors from around the country. She has also worked with the University of Pennsylvania’s Quattrone Center and the Innocence Project to establish best practices for conviction integrity units around the country. She continues to advise prosecutors’ offices on a range of ethics and organizational issues.