ERIC A. JOHNSON

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW

  AND DIRECTOR OF PROSECUTION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

Office: 114 College of Law Building
Telephone: 307-766-3663
Email address: ericj@uwyo.edu

Eric Johnson joined the faculty in August 2004 as an Assistant Professor. He teaches in the areas of criminal law and criminal procedure and serves as faculty director of the Prosecution Assistance Program.

Before joining the faculty, Eric worked in the offices of both the New York and Alaska attorneys general. From 2001 to 2004, Eric was an Assistant Solicitor General in the New York State Attorney General’s Office. Before that, Eric spent 11 years in Alaska’s Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals, first as an Assistant Attorney General (1990-1996) and then as Chief Assistant Attorney General (1996-2001). In 2001, Eric was the inaugural recipient of Alaska’s Prosecutor of the Year award. During his years in Alaska, Eric also served on the Alaska Supreme Court’s Advisory Committees on Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions (1993-2001) and Appellate Rules (1998-2001). From 1988 to 1989, Eric was a law clerk to Alaska Supreme Court Justice Allen Compton.

Eric’s recent publications have addressed questions involving criminal law, criminal procedure, and the intersection of law and morality.

Education

B.A., University of Washington (1984), Cum Laude
J.D., University of Michigan (1988), Cum Laude

Publications

"Beyond Belief: Rethinking the Role of Belief in the Assessment of Culpability", 3 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 503 (2006).

"Criminal Liability for Loss of a Chance", 91 IOWA L. REV. 59 (2005).

"Habit and Discernment in Abortion Practice: The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 as Morals Legislation", 36 RUTGERS L. J. 549 (2005).

"Assisted Suicide, Liberal Individualism, and Visceral Jurisprudence: A Reply to Professor Chemerinsky", 20 ALASKA L. REV. 321 (2003).

"Harm to the “Fabric of Society” as a Basis for Regulating Otherwise Harmless Conduct: Notes on a Theme from Ravin v. State", 27 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 41 (2003).

"An Analysis of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act in Relation to State Administrative Orders: The State Court Judgment as the Genesis of Custody", 29 NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL ON CRIMINAL & CIV. CONFINEMENT 153 (2003).

Recent Presentations

Recent Developments in the Law of Evidence, Wyoming Conference of Municipal Courts Training Seminar, Cheyenne, Wyoming, May 18, 2006.

Recent Developments in Wyoming Criminal Law (with Theodore Lauer), Wyoming County and Prosecuting Attorneys Conference, Casper, Wyoming, November 9, 2005.

CLE Presentation on Current issues in Criminal Law (with Theodore Lauer and Diane Courselle), University of Wyoming College of Law, Laramie, Wyoming, October 15, 2005.