Miriam Baer

Miriam Baer

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Miriam Baer is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where she teaches courses related to criminal law and white-collar crime. During the spring semester of 2021, Professor Baer was a Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she taught a section on criminal procedure.  

Professor Baer’s scholarship examines the enforcement mechanisms the government relies on to detect and deter business crimes. During the 2021-22 academic year, Baer will work on her book project, Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime (under contract with Cambridge University Press). Her book examines the general public’s disillusionment with white-collar crime’s enforcement institutions. It traces numerous enforcement pathologies to the federal criminal code’s structure and language and argues that these pathologies will persist so long we continue to sidestep the statutes that define and prohibit corporate and white-collar crimes.  

Prior to entering academia, Professor Baer served as an assistant general counsel for compliance with Verizon and was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. She also practiced briefly at a New York City law firm and was a law clerk to the Honorable Jane R. Roth on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  

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