Daniel Epps

Daniel Epps is an American legal scholar who is a professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. Epps teaches first-year criminal law, constitutional law, upper-level courses in criminal procedure, and a seminar on public law theory. His scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Michigan Law Review, and the NYU Law Review, and his writing for popular audiences has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vox, and The Atlantic. His and Ganesh Sitaraman's proposal to expand the size of the Supreme Court was endorsed by Mayor Pete Buttigieg during his run for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination. His and William Ortman's proposal to create a "Defender General" for criminal defendants at the Supreme Court was the subject of an article in the New York Times.
Publications
Articles and essays
* "Designing Supreme Court Term Limits," 95 Southern California Law Review__(forthcoming) (with Adam Chilton, Kyle Rozema & Maya Sen)
* "Checks and Balances in the Criminal Law," 73 Vanderbilt Law Review 1 (2021)
* "The Defender General," 168 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1469 (2020) (with William Ortman)
* "How to Save the Supreme Court," 129 Yale Law Journal (2019) (with Ganesh Sitaraman)
* "Police Officers Are Bypassing Juries to Face Judges," Washington Post (Sept. 21, 2017)
* Contributor, “An Annotated Constitution," New York Times Magazine (July 2, 2017)
* "In Health Care Ruling, Roberts Steals a Move from John Marshall’s Playbook," The Atlantic (June 28, 2012)
Epps previously co-hosted First Mondays with law professor Ian Samuel on which they discussed events at the Supreme Court.
Awards and honors
* Honorable Mention, Scholarly Papers Competition, American Association of Law Schools (2018) (for The Lottery Docket)
* Finalist, Junior Scholars Paper Competition, Criminal Justice Section, American Association of Law Schools (2016) (for Adversarial Asymmetry in the Criminal Process)
* Exemplary Legal Writing, The Green Bag Almanac & Reader (2013) (for Brief of Professor Stephen E. Sachs as Amicus Curiae, Atlantic Marine Construction Co. v. U.S. District Court, 134 S. Ct. 568 (2013) (as co-counsel with Jeffrey S. Bucholtz & Stephen E. Sachs)

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