Her note, Exploding the Superpredator Myth,[19] won the Paul D. Kaufman Memorial Award and was cited by Bryan Stevenson in his Supreme Court brief in Sullivan v. Florida, where he successfully argued that the Eighth Amendment forbade the sentencing of juveniles to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for crimes committed before the age of 13.

[21] After seven years as a trial attorney in the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles, Bazelon was awarded a clinical teaching fellowship at the UC Hastings College of the Law.

[23] In 2017, Bazelon joined the faculty of the University of San Francisco School of Law as an associate professor and the director of the Criminal and Juvenile and Racial Justice Clinics.

But as Radley Balko wrote in the Washington Post, Bazelon met with no success: "none of the eight complaints resulted in significant disciplinary action.

"[33] Bazelon told the Washington Post she was particularly troubled by the case of Jamal Trulove, who was wrongfully convicted due to the misconduct of Assistant District Attorney Linda Allen.

[33] Represented by the law firm Jones Day, Bazelon took a writ to the California Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case by a vote of 5–1 with one justice recusing himself.

[45] She has written for The Atlantic about the gender bias female trial lawyers face[46] and how the felony murder rule disproportionately impacts women and people of color.

"[50] Bazelon has also drawn criticism for her support for the Title IX regulations promulgated by the Trump Administration, writing in another New York Times op-ed that they were necessary to provide due process protections for the accused[51] following a lengthier article published in Politico Magazine.

which examined the role of officers who became characters in The Wire in contributing to wrongful convictions, will be re-printed in the forthcoming anthology Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit and Obsession (Ecco 2023) edited by Sarah Weinman.

[54] Bazelon's often contrarian positions have led to media appearances across the political spectrum including NPR,[55] MSNBC,[56] CNN,[57] Fox News,[58] and the popular podcasts Pod Save the People,[59] The Glenn Show,[60] The Fifth Column,[61] and The Unspeakable.

[71] Bazelon was an early supporter of Chesa Boudin's campaign to become San Francisco District Attorney in 2019, and served as a member of his policy team.

[72] In 2020, Boudin appointed Bazelon to chair his newly created Innocence Commission, a panel of five experts serving pro bono to re-investigate credible claims of wrongful conviction and transmit its findings to the DA.

[75] Her defenses of Boudin were quoted in numerous media outlets including The New York Times,[76] The New Yorker,[77] The Atlantic,[78] and The San Francisco Chronicle.