Advisory Board
Barry Scheck
Barry Scheck is a Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School
of Law in New York City where he has served for more than twenty-six
years. Currently, he sits as Emeritus Director of Clinical Education
and co-director of the Trial Advocacy Programs and the Jacob Burns
Center for the Study of Law and Ethics.
Scheck received his undergraduate degree from Yale University in
1971 and his Juris Doctorate from Boalt Hall School of Law at the
University of California at Berkeley in 1974. He worked for
three years as a staff attorney at The Legal Aid Society in New York
City before joining the faculty at Cardozo.
In 1992, Scheck and Peter Neufeld established the Innocence Project,
a clinical program at Cardozo Law School. The Innocence Project
has either represented or assisted in the representation of more
than half of the men who were exonerated through post-conviction
DNA testing and freed from lengthy prison sentences or the death
penalty itself. To date, 143 individuals have been exonerated
in the United States through post-conviction DNA testing since 1989.
Scheck is recognized for his representation of well known defendants
such as Hedda Nussbaum, Louise Woodward and O.J. Simpson. Additionally,
Scheck is known for representation of Abner Louima, Danny Reyes,
Jarmaine Grant and Thomas Pizzuto in cases based on claims of racial
profiling, wrongful death and wrongful conviction.
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