Shima Baradaran Baughman is the Woodruff J. Deem Professor of Law at the BYU Law School and a Distinguished Fellow at the Wheatley Institute. She is one of the top-cited faculty in her field and a nationally recognized expert on bail, prosecutors and police. In addition to teaching at BYU, Baughman spent 10 years as an associate dean and faculty member at the University of Utah Law School.
Before joining the legal academy, Baughman served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar researching pretrial detention in Malawi and lecturing in criminal law at the University of Malawi. After graduating first in her class at BYU Law School, Baughman clerked for Judge Jay S. Bybee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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