Research Bio

Ty Alper is a Clinical Professor of Law at U.C. Berkeley School of Law, where he co-directs the Death Penalty Clinic. Before joining Berkeley Law in 2004, Ty Alper was a staff attorney at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta. At the Southern Center, Alper represented Alabama and Georgia death row inmates in all stages of state and federal post-conviction proceedings. He also represented hundreds of Alabama prisoners in federal class-action litigation concerning unconstitutional conditions of confinement. 

Research Expertise and Interest

capital punishment, criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal justice