Daniel Epps


Daniel Epps is an associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. Epps teaches first-year criminal 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 Magazine, the Washington Post, Vox, and The Atlantic. He is currently working on projects about the role of the jury, the Supreme Court’s case-selection process and the harmless-error doctrine.

Supreme Court Experience

Epps is a nationally recognized expert on the Supreme Court. An experienced Supreme Court litigator, he most recently served as co-counsel for the defendant in Ocasio v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1423, which addressed the scope of criminal conspiracy liability for public-sector extortion. His other notable prior work includes the successful petition for certiorari and merits briefing in Walden v. Fiore, 133 S. Ct. 1493 ; a brief for the Court-appointed amicus curiae in Millbrook v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 1441 ; and an amicus brief for criminal law and procedure scholars in United States v. Davila, 133 S. Ct. 2139. He also served as co-counsel on the brief of Prof. Stephen E. Sachs as amicus curiae in Atlantic Marine Construction Co. v. U.S. District Court, 134 S. Ct. 568 , which The Green Bag Almanac & Reader included on its list of “Exemplary Legal Writing” for 2013.

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