Daniel Loehr is a Clinical Lecturer in Law, Criminal Legal Clinic Fellow, and an Associate Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School. He previously worked at the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, where he represented death-sentenced individuals in appellate and post-conviction proceedings. Loehr clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Tanya S. Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. During law school, he interned with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to law school, Loehr was a Criminal Defense Investigator at The Bronx Defenders. He is a graduate of Middlebury College, where he was a Truman Scholar, and New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar and a Furman Scholar. The N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change published his article, “Lethal Force at Home and Abroad,” in 2018, and his article, "Deference Despite Disenfranchisement: How Eighth Amendment Law Ignores Political Exclusion" is forthcoming in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.
