Northwestern University, BA 1977
Harvard University, JD 1981
Office: 21 Cargill Hall
Mail: 400 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Tel: (617) 373-4629
Fax: (617) 373-5056
E-mail: d.ramirez@neu.edu
Deborah A. Ramirez
Professor Ramirez teaches Criminal Justice, Advanced Criminal Procedure, Evidence Professional Responsibility and a seminar, “Balancing Liberty and Security in a Post-September 11th World.”
Professor Ramirez is executive director of the Partnering for Prevention and Community Safety Initiative (PfP). She writes and lectures on racial profiling, community and law enforcement partnerships, and issues of race and criminal justice. At PfP, Professor Ramirez oversees all aspects of project research. Most recently, Professor Ramirez authored a “Promising Practices Guide” on how to develop partnerships between law enforcement and the American Muslin, Arab and Sikh communities. Her belief is that we will only truly be safe from terrorist attacks when law enforcement adopts a strategy focused on building trust and strengthening relationships with the American Muslim, Arab and Sikh communities. She has also worked as consultant to the US Department of Justice on issues of racial profiling and data collection. From 2003-2004, she was a senior fellow at the Criminal Justice Initiative of the Soros Foundation.
Before joining the Northeastern faculty in 1989, Professor Ramirez was an associate with the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr and an assistant US attorney in Boston, where she was assigned to the Organized Crime Drug Task Force Unit. In that position, she was in charge of numerous investigations, trials and appeals.
Professor Ramirez is an elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association board and a member of the board of advisors for Harvard Law School’s Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Law Review.
- “Balancing Security and Liberty in a Post-September 11th World: The Search for Common Sense in Domestic Counterterrorism Policy,” Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review, 2005.
- Developing Partnerships Between Law Enforcement and the American Muslim, Arab, and Sikh Communities: A Promising Practices Guide, The Partnership for Prevention and Community Safety Initiative. www.ace.neu.edu/pfp, May 2004.
- “Defining Racial Profiling in a Post-September 11th World,” 40 Georgetown University American Criminal Law Review 1195, Summer 2003.
- “Contemporary Challenges to Gender Equality,” 43 New York Law Review 159, 1999.
- “Affirmative Jury Selection: A Proposal to Advance Both the Deliberative Ideal and Jury Diversity,” 1998 University of Chicago Legal Forum 161, 1998.
- “Multiracial Identity in a Color-Conscious World,” The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier. Root, ed. Sage Publications, 1996.
- “Multicultural Empowerment: It’s Not Just Black and White Anymore,” 47 Stanford Law Review 957, 1995.
- “A Brief Historical Overview of the Use of the Mixed Jury,” 31 American Criminal Law Review 1213, 1994.
