Mary D. Fan

Mary D. Fan is Jack R. MacDonald Endowed Chair at the University of Washington School of Law. She specializes in criminal law and procedure, evidence, data privacy and “crimmigration”—the practice of criminalization to exclude or expel migrants. Fan is the author of numerous articles and a book, Camera Power: Proof, Policing, Privacy and Audiovisual Big Data. Her research and teaching are informed by her experiences as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of California and as an associate legal officer at a United Nations criminal tribunal. Her scholarship has been cited by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in federal and state court opinions, and in major media venues.

Fan was the Herman Phleger Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School in winter 2022, where she taught first-year criminal law. She was a visiting scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2017-18. Fan is an elected member of the American Law Institute and an elected life fellow of the American Bar Association.