MV Summer Institute Speaker – Barry C. Scheck

Barry C. Scheck

Aligning AI Tools with Social and Democratic Values in the Criminal Legal System

Barry C. Scheck is Co-Founder and Special Counsel of the Innocence Project and a Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. The Innocence Project, started as a clinical program in 1992, is an independent non-profit organization affiliated with Cardozo that fights for fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone; frees the innocent; and prevents wrongful convictions. The work is guided by science and grounded in antiracism.

Mr. Scheck was a founding partner and is currently of counsel in the law firm of Neufeld Scheck Brustin Hoffman & Freudenberger, LLP, specializing in civil rights and constitutional litigation. The firm is frequently retained by victims of police brutality or other forms of police misconduct.

He has published extensively in these areas, including a book with Jim Dwyer and Peter Neufeld, Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right. Mr. Scheck has served many bar associations in prominent positions, including as President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), where he currently serves as a Trustee of the NACDL Foundation.