meet the board

Aliza Kaplan

Professor of Law & Director, Criminal Justice Reform Clinic
Lewis & Clark Law School

Aliza B. Kaplan is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Criminal Justice Reform Clinic (CJRC) where students work on a variety of cases and projects relating to the back-end of criminal cases in the areas of parole, clemency, wrongful convictions, and juvenile justice. She serves as counsel to the Forensic Justice Project, helped create the Community Law Division at Metropolitan Public Defender, and co-founded the Oregon Innocence Project.

Prior to teaching at Lewis & Clark, Kaplan was an Associate Professor of Legal Skills at Brooklyn Law School. She was also the Deputy Director of the national Innocence Project and co-founded the New England Innocence Project. She was an associate at Testa, Hurwitz and Thibeault in Boston and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Joseph E. Irenas of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Stephanie Wiley

Assistant Teaching Professor

Stephanie Wiley is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon, and Director of the Criminology Minor. After receiving her B.S. at Western Oregon University and M.S at Portland State University, she graduated with her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Missouri – St. Louis in 2014. Before joining the University of Oregon, Stephanie spent two years in St. Louis as an Assistant Research Professor and five years as an Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Her research focuses on consequences of school discipline and criminal legal system involvement among youth, with attention to the reproduction of racial and ethnic inequalities. Stephanie’s involvement with primary data collection in schools and jails has shaped her interests in using mixed methods to understand attitudes about the law, academic orientations, peer relationships, and deviant behavior.