Meredith Martin Rountree Biography (taken from her faculty website at Northwestern School of Law, found at https://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/meredithmartinrountree/ )
Meredith Martin Rountree’s research and teaching focuses on criminal law and criminal justice, with particular attention to how people with mental illness interact with the law and legal institutions. Before joining Northwestern, Professor Rountree taught at the University of Texas School of Law. She helped found the University of Texas School of Law’s Capital Punishment Center and co-directed its Capital Punishment Clinic. Her work has been published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, the American Journal of Criminal Law, and the Law & Society Review, among others, and cited by Justice Breyer in his dissenting opinion in Glossip v. Gross (2015). Before turning to academic research, she represented people facing the death penalty in Arizona, Washington, and Texas. In addition, she advocated – in and out of court – on behalf of prisoners, founding, and for three years directing, the Texas ACLU’s prison and jail project.