Biography
J.J. Prescott is an Assistant Professor at the Law School. His research and teaching interests include criminal law, sentencing law and reform, employment law, and torts. Much of his work is empirical in focus. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, in 2002 from Harvard Law School where he was the Treasurer (Vol. 115) and an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Professor Prescott clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and he earned a Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006. Professor Prescott was a Research Fellow at Harvard Law School in 2003–2004, a Special Guest at the Brookings Institution (Economic Studies) in Washington, D.C., in 2004-05, and a Research Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center from 2004 to 2006. He received a double B.A. with honors and distinction in Economics and Public Policy from Stanford University in 1996.