Biographical Sketch
Professor Lerner joined the Law School in 1997, after serving as a law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and to Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before attending law school, she did graduate work at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in English legal history. From 2003 to 2005, she served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Lerner’s interests, reflected in her writings, include: English and U.S. legal history, civil and criminal procedure, and comparative law. She is writing a coursebook on the history of the common law with John Langbein and Bruce Smith.

Education
B.A., Princeton University; M.Litt., Oxford University; J.D., Yale University

Current Semester Courses
Criminal Procedure