Megan Quattlebaum Named Program Director of Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School

Megan Quattlebaum has been appointed Program Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School, a new initiative that will study innovation in criminal justice policy and science.

Quattlebaum was previously a Senior Liman Fellow in Residence at Yale Law School, where she co-taught the Liman Workshop and the Liman Practicum, an experiential course on criminal justice reform.

The Justice Collaboratory, directed by Tracey Meares and co-directed by Tom Tyler, recently launched as part of the U.S. Justice Department’s National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice. Meares and Tyler are working directly with other members of the initiative to design intervention programs in six pilot communities around the country based on existing research concerning procedural justice, implicit bias, and race and reconciliation. The program will design metrics to measure the effect of these interventions and compare the results with six untreated comparison communities. It will produce reports and scholarly articles to disseminate the results of these interventions and their effects on building community trust and justice in the six pilot sites.

“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Tracey and Tom—as well as all of our national partners—on this vital initiative,” said Quattlebaum. “I think it represents the absolute best of what academic institutions can do: contribute rich and novel theoretical insights; put those theories to practice in localities that are suffering from poverty and violence, and do so in a way that is responsive to community needs and input; and rigorously research the results to ensure that our interventions are having the desired effect.”

Megan Quattlebaum previously worked as an associate at Zuckerman Spaeder LLP in New York where she represented clients in criminal and civil cases. Before that, she was an Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellow and attorney at the Neighborhood Legal Services Association in Pittsburgh. Quattlebaum also served as a clerk for the Hon. Julio M. Fuentes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.