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Carissa Byrne Hessick

Carissa Byrne Hessick

Law

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Carissa Byrne Hessick is a legal scholar whose work focuses on criminal law, criminal procedure, prosecutorial discretion, sentencing, and criminal justice policy. She is the Anne Shea Ransdell and William Garland “Buck” Ransdell, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she has served on the faculty since 2016. In addition, she is the Director of the Prosecutors and Politics Project, a research initiative examining the role of prosecutors within democratic systems.

Academic experience includes prior faculty appointments at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, as well as service as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. In 2024, she held the position of Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at The Australian National University.

Carissa Byrne Hessick earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and holds a B.A. in Linguistics from Columbia University. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed law review articles addressing prosecutorial power, sentencing practices, and constitutional limits in criminal law. Her publications also include books on plea bargaining, public corruption, and criminal law policy, frequently cited in academic and legal contexts.

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