Tracey Meares

Tracey L. Meares
Meares in 2015
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Legal scholar, author
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (B.S.) University of Chicago Law School (J.D.)
Academic work
Institutions	Yale Law School University of Chicago Law School
Main interests	criminal procedure and criminal law policy
Notable works	The coming crisis of criminal procedure, 1998.

Tracey L. Meares is an American legal scholar and author. She is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Previous to joining the Yale Law School faculty, she was Max Pam Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago Law School. At both Chicago and Yale, she was the first African-American woman to be granted tenure.^[1]