Ben Grunwald

Ben Grunwald’s academic interests include criminal procedure, policing, courts, incarceration and empirical methods. His recent work has examined racial bias in criminal records, law enforcement labor markets, the use of social media by police agencies, optimal decarceration strategies, high-crime areas, and open-file criminal discovery.

Grunwald joined the Duke Law faculty in 2017 after serving as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He previously clerked for the Honorable Thomas Ambro on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He holds a JD, a PhD in Criminology, an AM in Statistics, and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.