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Sandra Thompson
Law Foundation Professor of Law
and Criminal Justice Institute Director
122 BLB
sgthompson@central.uh.edu
713.743.2134
Professor Sandra Guerra Thompson is a graduate of Yale University, where she earned a B.A. in Economics in 1985 and a J.D. from the Yale Law School in 1988. She served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorney's Office where she practiced both trial and appellate criminal law from 1988-1990. She joined the faculty of the University of Houston Law Center in 1990. She teaches Criminal Law, Federal Criminal Law, Evidence, Criminal Procedure, Sentencing, and Prisoners' Rights and Prison Reform. She received the University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award in 2003 and the Ethel Baker Faculty Award in 2000. She is a former Director of the Mexican Legal Studies Program, and she taught a course for that program called "Criminal Law Issues in U.S.-Mexico Relations." Professor Thompson has authored numerous articles on criminal law issues, on such topics as wrongful conviction, immigration crimes, jury discrimination, police interrogations, federal sentencing, and asset forfeiture. She has co-authored a treatise entitled, "The Law of Asset Forfeiture" (with Gurule and O'Hear), now in its second edition. Professor Thompson's service activities have included serving as the co-principal investigator for the University of Houston Law Center Keck Professionalism Initiative, serving as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and as a member of the search committee for the University President and Chancellor's position. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and was appointed to the Board of Advisors for the American Law Institute's project entitled "Model Penal Code: Sentencing." She is a former Chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the Association of American Law Schools. She has served on the planning committee for the Houston Bar Association's Criminal Bench-Bar Conference and she is a member of the Houston Bar Foundation. She served for 15 years as a member of the Board of Directors of the Hispanic Bar Association and continues to serve as a liaison with that group and the University of Houston.
Professor Thompson is a frequent media commentator, both locally and nationally.
B.A., Yale University; J.D., Yale University COURSES:
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Evidence
Prisoners' Rights
Sentencing
Evidence Syllabus
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