Professor Stinneford teaches and writes about legal ethics, criminal law, criminal procedure, and constitutional law. His work has been cited by the United States Supreme Court, several state supreme courts and federal courts of appeal, and numerous scholars. It has published in numerous scholarly journals including the Georgetown Law Journal, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the William & Mary Law Review. The Stanford-Yale Junior faculty forum selected one of his articles as the best paper in the category of Constitutional History, and the AALS Criminal Justice Section named another article as the best paper in its Junior Scholars Paper Competition. In the fall of 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown Law Center, Center for the Constitution.
Before joining the Florida faculty in 2009, Stinneford clerked for the Hon. James Moran of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, served as an Assistant United States Attorney, and practiced law with Winston & Strawn in Chicago. Stinneford teaches first-year courses in Criminal Law and Constitutional Law, and upper-level courses in Professional Responsibility, Criminal Procedure, Federal Criminal Law, Law & Literature, and White Collar Crime.
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Cruel and New: Why Supermax, Lethal Injection, and Mass Incarceration Violate the Original Meaning of the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause (but the Firing Squad Doesn't)
Oregon Student Chapter
Knight Law Center1515 Agate St.
Eugene, OR 97403
Cruel & New Punishment
Montana Student Chapter
Law School, Room 20132 Campus Drive
Missoula, MT 59812
On the 8th Amendment- Cruel and New: Why Supermax, Lethal Injection, and Mass Incarceration Violate the Original Meaning of the Eighth Amendment (but the Firing Squad Doesn't)
Quinnipiac Student Chapter
Quinnipiac University School of Law370 Bassett Rd
North Haven, CT 06473
Weighing the Merits of Miranda
Cornell Student Chapter
Cornell Law SchoolMyron Taylor Hall, Room 186
Ithaca, NY 14853
Don’t Make A Federal Case Out of It: Subsidiarity, Federalism, and Federal Prosecution of Street Crime
Cleveland Lawyers Chapter
Cleveland Metropolitan Conference Center1375 East Ninth Street, 2nd Floor
Cleveland, OH 44114
After Dobbs and Samia: The Potential Implications of Applying a Dobbs Lens to the Supreme Court’s Constitutional Criminal Jurisprudence
2023 National Lawyers Convention
Stare Decisis, a Latin term meaning “let it stand,” is a key element of how...
After Dobbs and Samia: The Potential Implications of Applying a Dobbs Lens to the Supreme Court’s Constitutional Criminal Jurisprudence
2023 National Lawyers Convention
Stare Decisis, a Latin term meaning “let it stand,” is a key element of how...
Bucklew v. Precythe: The Decision [SCOTUSbrief]
Short video featuring John Stinneford
In 2014, Russell Bucklew asserted that the lethal injection protocol in Missouri was cruel and...
Crime & Punishment
2016 Annual Florida Chapters Conference
In recent years there has been a debate across the ideological spectrum about the reach...
Crime & Punishment
2016 Annual Florida Chapters Conference
In recent years there has been a debate across the ideological spectrum about the reach...