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- Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. (born December 12, 1966 in Gary, Indiana) is a law professor at Harvard Law School. Sullivan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Morehouse College in 1989 and received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1994. Prior to joining the Harvard Law School faculty, Sullivan served as the Director of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Sullivan was elected President of the Black Law Students Association at Harvard Law School and served as a general editor of the Harvard Black Letter Law Journal, now known as the Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Sullivan worked at the D.C. law firms of Baach Robinson & Lewis and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, where Sullivan quickly gained experience with high-profile cases, such as those involving President Clinton. Sullivan began his teaching career at Yale Law School where he won the law school's prestigious award for Outstanding Teaching. He was recruited by then-Dean Elena Kagan to become part of the Harvard Law School faculty. He teaches first year criminal law and upper level criminal procedure at Harvard Law School, where he is the director of the Criminal Justice Institute. He continues to write on the subjects of criminal law, criminal procedure, democracy, and race. He is the Director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School, where he serves as "a real live criminal defense lawyer for clients who can't afford one." Sullivan also oversees the January term Trial Advocacy Workshop, an intensive three-week course for Harvard Law School students, featuring assistance from high-profile lawyers and judges from around the country. Sullivan is also a founding fellow, along with his wife, of the , is actively involved with community organizations in the Massachusetts area, and regularly gives speeches and moderates panels on race-based violence. Sullivan also now serves as the official faculty advisor for Harvard Law School's chapter of the Black Law Students Association. Sullivan has appeared as a legal analyst on CNN, C-SPAN, and Fox News Channel. He is known to take on several cases, pro bono, across the nation, in addition to the cases he oversees as part of the Criminal Justice Institute. He represented one of the Jena Six defendants, and never lost a case during his years in Washington, D.C.'s Public Defender Services office. On June 9, 2016, it was announced, and confirmed by news outlets such as The Boston Globe, that Sullivan would be part of the head legal defense team for ex-NFL New England Patriots football star player Aaron Hernandez in a double murder case. While Hernandez was serving a prison sentence for another murder, of which he had been convicted, he was found not guilty in the double murder case. (en)
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