S. David Mitchell

S. David Mitchell
  • Advanced Torts
  • Torts
  • Criminal Justice Administration
  • Collateral Consequences of Sentencing
  • Law and Society
Associate Professor of Law

BA (1991), Brown University
MA, Sociology (1999), University of Pennsylvania
JD (2002), University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D, Sociology (2012), University of Pennsylvania

Professor Mitchell joined the University of Missouri School of Law faculty in 2006 after spending two years as a Scholar in Residence in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His interdisciplinary scholarship focuses on the criminal justice system, specifically the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction. He has been a Missouri Supreme Court Faculty Fellow researching ex-offender reentry across Missouri. Professor Mitchell has been recognized for his teaching, receiving the Gold Chalk Award (2009), and his contributions outside the law school, receiving the Legion of Black Collegians Minority Faculty and Staff Appreciation Award (2011). He served as a law clerk for the Honorable Andre M. Davis, formerly of the U.S. District Court. In law school, he was a member of the Student Ethics and Responsibility Committee, the Jessup International Moot Court Team and Board, the American Inns of Court and an active member of the Black Law Students Association. He recently completed his doctoral studies in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania with his dissertation entitled, "Unintended Consequences?: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Obstacles that Prevent Successful Ex-Offender Reentry and Reintegration and the Societal Impact."

Recent Publications

Academic Journals

Impeding Reentry: Agency and Judicial Obstacles to Longer Halfway House Placements, 16 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF RACE AND LAW 235 (2011).
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