Scott Howe

Scott Howe

Professor, Frank L. Williams Professor of Criminal Law
Dale E. Fowler School of Law
Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences; Psychology
Expertise: Capital Punishment Law; Death Penalty; Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure;
Office Location: Kennedy Hall 404
Phone: (714) 628-2516
Scholarly Works:
SSRN Author Page
Education:
University of Missouri, Bachelor of Arts
University of Michigan, Juris Doctor

Biography

Scott Howe has been a professor at the law school since August 1996. He has substantial experience both as a criminal defense lawyer and as a teacher in the fields of criminal law, criminal procedure and evidence. He earned his B.A. in economics, from the University of Missouri, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his JD from the University of Michigan, where he was an Articles Editor on the Michigan Law Review. After law school, Professor Howe worked for five years as an attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, defending indigent persons charged with serious crimes, including first-degree murder. He subsequently served as Deputy Director of the Texas Death Penalty Resource Center in Austin, Texas, representing inmates under execution warrants on Texas' death row. His representation during this period of death-row inmate Kerry Max Cook is recounted in Mr. Cook's acclaimed memoir, Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit. Before coming to Chapman, Professor Howe taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas Law School and then became a tenured full professor at Western New England College School of Law. At Chapman, he has been voted Professor of the Year multiple times by the graduating class. His articles have appeared in a variety of leading law journals, including the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, and the Vanderbilt Law Review. He is also co-author of several editions of two books: California Criminal Law: Cases and Problems and Understanding Capital Punishment Law. Professor Howe served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1999 to 2007 and twice served as Interim Dean, from 2010 to 2011, and again during the spring of 2016.

Courses Taught:

Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure/Police Practice, and Evidence.

List of Scholarly Publications

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

CALIFORNIA CRIMINAL LAW: CASES AND PROBLEMS (5th ed. 2023) (with Steven F. Shatz and Amy Flynn)
Five Faces of the Public Defender, 64 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 1507-1554 (2023)
A Sixth Amendment Inclusionary Rule for Fourth Amendment Violations, 54 CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW 613-654 (2022)
Atoning for Dred Scott and Plessy While Substantially Abolishing the Death Penalty, 95 WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW 737-808 (2020)
UNDERSTANDING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT LAW (4th ed. 2018) (with Linda Carter and Ellen Kreitzberg)
Constitutional Clause Aggregation and the Marijuana Crimes, 75 WASHINGTON AND LEE L. REV. 779-883 (2018)
Capital-Sentencing Law and the New Conservative Court, CARDOZO L. REV. de*novo 157-172 (2018)
CALIFORNIA CRIMINAL LAW: CASES AND PROBLEMS (4th ed. 2016) (with Steven F. Shatz and Amy Flynn)
Moving Beyond Miranda: Concessions for Confessions, 110 NORTHWESTERN U. L. REV 905-962 (2016)