Josh Weiss is a Binder Clinical Teaching Fellow at UCLA School of Law. His research focuses on criminal procedure, criminal law, and federal sentencing law, specifically interrogating the history of federal parole and other second chance laws and how they can be reinvigorated as decarceration tools. Weiss’s work has been published in the Stanford Law Review.

Before coming to UCLA, Weiss was an appellate lawyer at the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles, where he represented indigent clients before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and in federal district court. After law school, Weiss clerked for the Honorable Victor Marrero on the Southern District of New York, and for the Honorable Patty Shwartz on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Weiss received a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a B.A. in philosophy from Columbia College. In law school, he was the executive editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review, a member of the Criminal Justice Clinic, and the student director of the Ethics Bureau at Yale, a clinic that worked on death penalty appeals.