Rate My Professor Bryan Stevenson

Stevenson has argued and prevailed in several landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases, including Miller v. Alabama (2012), which prohibited mandatory life without parole sentences for juveniles, resulting in the resentencing or release of more than 1,000 people. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (2014), which won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Nonfiction. Stevenson has also produced widely used manuals on capital case litigation and published scholarly articles, such as in the New York University Law Review (2002). His honors include the National Humanities Medal, MacArthur Fellowship ("Genius Grant"), the 2024 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize in Social Science and Public Policy, and the 2025 Stockholm Prize in Criminology. At NYU Law, he teaches courses on Racial Justice and the Law and Eighth Amendment Challenges, and through EJI, he established the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum, addressing America's history of racial terror lynching and enslavement. Stevenson's scholarship and advocacy have profoundly influenced criminal justice policy, constitutional law, and public discourse on race and equality.