Joseph L. Hoffmann is a leading scholar of criminal procedure and the death penalty, and a professor of law.
[1] Hoffmann graduated from Harvard College in 1978, where he was the manager for the basketball team.
[2] He served as law clerk to Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
[3] In 1986, Hoffmann joined the faculty as assistant professor of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.
An expert in criminal procedure and the death penalty,[5] he co-authored a report for Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's Council on Capital Punishment.