James “Jamie” Binnall completed a M.S in Education from Wagner College, M.S. in Social Ecology from University of California, Irvine,  J.D. from Thomas Jefferson School of Law, LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center in Constitutional/Criminal Law, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in Criminology, Law and Society.  He is an Assistant Professor of Law, Criminology, and Criminal Justice.  Prior to his appointment at CSULB, Jamie was a Teaching Fellow at Thomas Jefferson School of Law (2013-2014), where he taught Law of Probation & Parole and Incarceration & Reentry.  Jamie also served as a Law Teaching Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center (2011-2013).  At Georgetown, he taught seminar courses in United States Legal Discourse and Scholarly Legal Writing, while also serving as the Assistant Director of the Language Center, overseeing the dissertation writing process for graduate law students pursuing their SJD.  Jamie has also taught courses on Criminology, Law & Society at University of California, Irvine.

Jamie’s research focuses on the civic marginalization of former offenders, parole and post-release restrictions, and conditions of confinement.  His current research, funded by the National Science Foundation and the American Bar Association, examines the exclusion of convicted felons from the jury process.  The leading scholar on felon juror exclusion, Jamie has testified for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and presented his research to the American Bar Association Jury Commission.  He is the author of numerous articles published in both law reviews and social science journals, including The Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Albany Law Review, Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, Law & Policy, and Law & Social Inquiry.  Jamie also maintains a pro-bono law practice, representing federal criminal defendants on appeal and law students in the California State Bar Moral Character and Fitness Determination process.