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Jordan Steiker is Cooper K. Ragan Regents Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1988. He subsequently clerked for Honorable Louis Pollak, U.S. District Court (Eastern District of Pennsylvania) and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught constitutional law and death penalty law at the University of Texas since 1990, and is co-director of the law school's Capital Punishment Center. He has written extensively on federal habeas corpus and the death penalty. He has also represented numerous indigent death-sentenced inmates in state and federal court.

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