Professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. is the faculty director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute. Prior to joining Harvard Law’s faculty in July 2007, he served on the faculty of the Yale Law School, where he won the law school’s award for outstanding teaching after his first year teaching.

Professor Sullivan is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College, and the Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Black Law Students Association and as a general editor of the Harvard BlackLetter Law Review.

Professor Sullivan has provided legal commentary for CNN, FoxNews, and PBS on topics ranging from the Impeachment of President Clinton to the Kobe Bryant criminal proceedings.