Peter A. Joy
Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 587
Phone: (314) 935-6445
E-mail: joy@wulaw.wustl.edu
Assistant: Dorothy Campbell - (314) 935-7964
- Curriculum Vitae [view]
(For the most recent list of publications and activities, please see the current CV.) - Publications [view]
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Courses Taught
Criminal Justice Clinic
Trial
Legal Profession
Comparative Ethics Seminar
Education
A.B., 1974, Youngstown State University
J.D. 1977, Case Western Reserve University
Profile
Professor Joy is well known for his work in clinical legal education, legal ethics, and trial practice. He is the Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic, and he was the inaugural Director of the Trial and Advocacy Program for the School of Law from 2002-06. Professor Joy is the recipient of the 2001 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Pincus Award, which is presented annually to honor one or more individuals or institutions for effecting an outstanding contribution to the cause of clinical legal education. He currently serves on the Board of Editors for the Clinical Law Review, the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the AALS, the Executive Committee of the Section on Professional Responsibility of the AALS, the Board of Directors of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), the Clinic and Skills Training Committee of the Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association (ABAA), and he is a member of the Legal Education Study Project sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Stanford Law School.
Professor Joy is a Past-President of the Clinical Legal Education Association, and he is a former Chair of the Section on Clinical Legal Education for the AALS. He also serves as a Program Director at Large for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA), and he is the former Program Director for NITA's Great Lakes Deposition Program.
As Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic, Professor Joy works with students who both provide direct representation to clients as student lawyers under his supervision and participate as second chair student lawyers with experienced public defenders on more serious criminal matters. He also teaches Trial Practice & Procedure, the Legal Profession, and Comparative Legal Ethics Seminar. In recent years, Professor Joy has consulted with law professors starting new clinical legal education programs in Japan and he was a commemoration speaker at the founding meeting of the Japan Clinical Legal Education Association (JCLEA) in 2008.
Professor Joy has written about clinical legal education, legal ethics, lawyer and judicial professionalism, access to justice issues, and criminal justice issues. (See Publications) He is a contributing editor and co-authors a regular ethics column for Criminal Justice, a quarterly publication of the American Bar Association. He is co-author of the forthcoming book, ETHICAL ISSUES FOR PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE, to be published by the ABA. He has also been interviewed on various legal issues by the national media, including the The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Progressive, ABA Journal, ABA Student Lawyer, The American Lawyer, NBC Dateline, LawyersUSA, The Legal Times, The National Law Journal, National Jurist, USA Today, AP Wire, and by the media in a dozen different states.
Professor Joy has been an active public interest lawyer on a broad range of issues, and he has performed pro bono work for battered women, persons seeking political asylum, and persons with First Amendment claims. Prior to joining the Washington University School of Law faculty, he was Professor of Law and Director of the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic at Case Western Reserve University Law School. He was also on the Program Faculty of the Mandel Center for Nonprofits from 1990-98. Professor Joy was on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for the Ohio ACLU from 1991-98, serving as General Counsel from 1993-98, and he served on the Legal Committee for the ACLU of Eastern Missouri from 1999-2005.
Before becoming a law professor, Professor Joy had a general litigation practice in Cleveland, Ohio, served as an arbitrator with the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, and a mediator for the Center for Human Services in Cleveland, Ohio. His first position after law school was National Co-Director for the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council in Atlanta, Georgia.