Ronald J. Coleman
Assistant Professor of Law
Ronald J. Coleman (“RJ”) is an Assistant Professor of Law at University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law and Affiliated Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School with primary interests in evidence, the criminal system, and technology. Previously, he was a Visiting Fellow in the Information Society Project, Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU Law, McClellan Fellow Visiting Researcher at Oxford, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown Law, where he also hosted the Georgetown Law-Ernst & Young “Compliance & Legal Risk” podcast. A former practicing lawyer in criminal investigations and litigation at Cleary Gottlieb, he is the author or co-author of published or forthcoming work including two books and a dozen articles in law journals such as the Georgia Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Texas A&M Law Review, and Wake Forest Law Review. He holds a B.F.A from NYU, a B.A. and M.A. in Law from Cambridge, an M.Sc. from Oxford, and a J.D. from Georgetown Law.
Courses
- Law 814 Criminal Trial Process
- Law 890 Evidence
- Law 802 Contracts II
Rethinking US Evidence Law: Burdens of Proof and the Effect of Rebuttable Evidentiary Presumptions (forthcoming from Edward Elgar Publishing) (with Paul F. Rothstein)
Evidence in a Nutshell (West Academic Publishing, 7th ed. 2022) (with Paul F. Rothstein and David Crump)
Human Confrontation, 61 Wake Forest Law Review 277 (2026)
Confrontation, the Legacy of Crawford, and Important Unanswered Questions, 57 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 731 (2024) (invited symposium contribution) (with Paul F. Rothstein)
Prior Racist Acts and the Character Evidence Ban in Hate Crime Prosecutions, 102 North Carolina Law Review 753 (2024) (with Paul F. Rothstein)
Big Data Policing Capacity Measurement, 53 New Mexico Law Review 305 (2023)
Differentiating Strict Products Liability’s Cost-Benefit Analysis From Negligence, 56 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 637 (2023) (with Paul F. Rothstein)
Measuring Police Body Camera Infrastructure, 62 Santa Clara Law Review 273 (2022)
Confrontation’s Multi-Analyst Problem, 9 Texas A&M Law Review 165 (2021) (with Paul F. Rothstein)
Police Body Cameras: Go Big or Go Home?, 68 Buffalo Law Review 1353 (2020)
Confronting Memory Loss, 55 Georgia Law Review 95 (2020) (with Paul F. Rothstein)
Law and Multidimensional Measurement, 44 Southern Illinois University Law Journal 253 (2020) (with Ana Vaz)
A Game of Katso and Mouse: Current Theories for Getting Forensic Analysis Evidence Past the Confrontation Clause, 57 American Criminal Law Review 27 (2020) (with Paul F. Rothstein)
Grabbing the Bullcoming by the Horns: How the Supreme Court Could Have Used Bullcoming v. New Mexico to Clarify Confrontation Clause Requirements for CSI-Type Reports, 90 Nebraska Law Review 502 (2011) (with Paul F. Rothstein)
Other Scholarly Works
Stratification, Inequality, and the SAT: Toward an SAT-Optional Movement, 18 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy 507 (2011) (student note)
Reactions, 2 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 49 (2010) (invited reaction paper)