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CLASS OF 1975 ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP

DONALD DRIPPS, JD

Donald A. Dripps is a Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, where he has been a faculty member since 2004. A leading scholar in criminal law and procedure, Professor Dripps brings decades of academic and professional experience to his role. He earned his BA from Northwestern University

Law School, where he was named the James Annenberg Levee Professor of Criminal Procedure. Professor Dripps's areas of expertise include Federal Courts, Constitutional Interpretation, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Evidence. He is the co-author of the widely used casebook

in 1980 and his JD from the University of Michigan in 1983, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review. He is also a member of the Order of the Coif. Following law school, Dripps clerked for the Honorable Amalya Kearse of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City. He later held academic positions at several prestigious institutions including the University of Illinois College of Law, Duke University School of Law, Cornell Law School, and the University of Minnesota

Criminal Law and Procedure: Cases and Materials (15th ed., 2025) and has published extensively in top law reviews on topics such as due process, plea bargaining, the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and the federalization of rape law. His forthcoming book, Sentencing Discretion and the Constitution: Due Process of Time , is due to be published in January 2026 by Oxford University Press.

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