Milton Heumann is a renowned professor of Political Science at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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. He received his B.A. from Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College

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 and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University

Yale University

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. He taught at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 before joining the Rutgers faculty in 1981. He has spent many semesters as a Visiting Lecturer and Guggenheim Fellow at Yale Law School

Yale Law School

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. He was chair of the Political Science Department of Rutgers from 1997 - 2003. His principal research interests are in the area of legal process, criminal justice and civil liberties.

Selected publications

• "Law and Society Review" (1975)
• "Plea Bargaining" (University of Chicago Press 1978)
• "Mandatory Sentencing and the Abolition of Plea Bargaining: The Michigan Felony Firearms Statute,"
• "Speedy Disposition" (with Thomas Church) (SUNY, 1992)
• "Hate Speech On Campus", (edited with Thomas W. Church) (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997);
• "Profiles in Justice? Police Discretion, Symbolic Assailants and Stereotyping," (with Lance Cassak) Rutgers Law Review (2001);
• "Good Cop, Bad Cop: Profiling, Race and Competing Visions of Justice," (with Lance Cassak) (New York: Peter Lang Press, 2003)
• "Barred from the Bar: Public Attitudes Toward the Disenfranchisement of Felons," (with Brian Pinaire and Laura Bilotta), Fordham Urban Law Review (2003)
• "Beyond the Sentence: Public Perceptions of Collateral Consequences for Felony Offenders," (with Brian Pinaire and Thomas Clark), Criminal Justice Bulletin (2005)
• "Barred from the Bar: The Process and Politics of Disciplining Attorney Felony Offenders (with Brian Pinaire and Jennifer Lerman), Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law.

Academic awards and honors

• Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Rutgers University, 1992
• Ranked in Top 25 (by year of Ph.D.) in terms if number of times work is cited "The Political Science 400:Citation, by Ph.D. Cohort and by Ph.D. Granting institution"
• Guggenheim Fellow, Yale Law School
• Selected as "Best Teacher," The Rutgers Review, 1985
• Selected as member of Editorial Board of the American Bar Foundation and research Journal, December 1982
• Selection of the Lawyer's Literary Club, Plea Bargaining, 1978
• Distinguished Service Award (service and teaching), University of Michigan, 1976
• APSA Edward S. Corwin Award of Best Dissertation in Public Law, 1977

External links

• Rutgers University