Paul Butler
Paul Butler is the Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a legal analyst on MSNBC. Previously, Butler served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, where his specialty was public corruption. His prosecutions included a United States Senator, three FBI agents, and several other law enforcement officials. He lectures regularly for the American Bar Association and the NAACP, and at colleges, law schools, and community organizations throughout the US. He also serves on the District of Columbia Code Revision Commission as an appointee of the D.C. City Council and was elected to the American Law Institute in 2003. He was also the Bennett Boskey Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School during the 2017-2018 school year. Butler is the author of “Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice”, which received the Harry Chapin Media award, and “Chokehold: Policing Black Men”, which was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2017 by major news outlets and a finalist for the 2018 NAACP Image Award for best non-fiction. He holds an honorary Doctor of Law Degree from the City University of New York and is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School.
