Rachel Barkow is the Charles Seligson Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. She also serves as the Faculty Director of the Zimroth Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at NYU. She served as a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission from June 2013 to January 2019. She is the author of Prisoner of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration (Harvard/Belknap 2019). She is recognized as one of the country’s leading experts on criminal law and policy. Professor Barkow teaches courses in criminal law, administrative law, and constitutional law. In 2013, she was the recipient of the NYU Distinguished Teaching Award. The Law School awarded her its Podell Distinguished Teaching Award in 2007. After graduating from Northwestern University (B.A. ’93), Barkow attended Harvard Law School (’96), where she won the Sears Prize. She served as a law clerk to Judge Laurence H. Silberman on the D.C. Circuit and Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. Barkow was an associate at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans in Washington, D.C.