Assistant Professor of Law
E-mail: kafindle@wisc.edu
Telephone: (608)262-4763
Office: Room 8108, Law School
Education:
B.A. 1981, Indiana University
J.D. 1985, Yale Law School,
Teaching Areas:
Appellate Advocacy
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Evidence
Law and Science
Recently Taught Courses
801 Evidence
854 Clinical Program: Innocence Project
854 Clinical Program: Wisconsin Innocence Project
915 SP Crim. J. Admin.: Wrongful Convictions
915 SP Crim. J. Admin.: Claims of Innocence
Research Interests:
Wrongful Convictions
Eyewitness Identification Procedures
Interrogations & False Confessions
Forensic Sciences
Legal/Clinical Education
Biography
After more than 20 years teaching in the clinical programs at the Law School's Frank J. Remington Center, Keith Findley moved to the tenure track in the fall of 2012. He currently teaches Evidence, Wrongful Convictions, and Criminal Procedure. Along with co-director Professor Byron Lichstein, he also continues to serve as faculty director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project (which he co-founded with Professor John Pray). He currently serves as the president of the Innocence Network, an affiliation of 66 innocence projects in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and The Netherlands. Through the Wisconsin Innocence Project, students investigate and litigate claims of actual innocence based upon newly discovered evidence on behalf of wrongly convicted prisoners.
Prof. Findley's primary areas of expertise are in wrongful convictions, criminal law and procedure, and appellate advocacy. He has previously worked as an Assistant State Public Defender in Wisconsin, both in the Appellate and Trial Divisions. He has litigated hundreds of postconviction and appellate cases, at all levels of state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court. He also lectures and teaches nationally on wrongful convictions, forensic science, and appellate advocacy. His scholarly agenda focuses on the causes of and remedies for wrongful convictions.
