Shima Baradaran Baughman
Baughman is a Professor at the University of Utah College of Law, and her teaching and scholarship focus on criminal law, criminal procedure, and international law. Baughman is a noted expert on bail and pretrial prediction, but her scholarship covers an expansive array of areas including criminal justice policy, prosecutors, drugs, search and seizure, international law and terrorism, and race and violent crime. Baughman frequently employs advanced empirical modeling and randomized controlled trials in her scholarship, and her work has been featured on National Public Radio and in such publications as the New York Times, the Economist, the Washington Post, and Forbes. Baughman has presented her work at a number of law schools across the nation, including Stanford, Cornell, NYU, and UCLA, and her articles have been published in University of Pennsylvania Law Review, USC Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Texas Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
Baughman has served on a number of civic and professional committees, including the Utah Sentencing Commission, AALS Criminal Justice Section Executive Committee, and the ABA Pretrial Justice Taskforce, for which she served as Co-chair of the Committee on Crime Prevention, Pretrial Release & Police Practices. Before joining the University of Utah faculty, Baughman taught at Brigham Young University Law School and served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar. She is currently working on a book, Bail and Mass Incarceration, with Cambridge University Press.