Professor Douglas A. Berman is a professor of law at The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law. He attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School. His principal teaching and research focus is criminal law and criminal sentencing; he has taught criminal law, criminal punishment and sentencing, criminal procedure – investigation, the death penalty, legislation, introduction to intellectual property, Second Amendment seminar, and the Legislation Clinic.
Professor Berman is the co-author of a casebook, Sentencing Law and Policy: Cases, Statutes and Guidelines. He has served as an editor of the Federal Sentencing Reporter for more than a decade, and also serves as co-managing editor of the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law.
Professor Berman is the sole creator and author of the widely read and widely cited blog, Sentencing Law and Policy. He has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives and before numerous sentencing commissions.