Jessica Feinstein
Lecturer
Professor Jessica Feinstein teaches Lawyering Strategies & Skills at the University of Houston Law Center.
From 2014 until 2025, Jessica Feinstein served as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan and Houston. In the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, she was the Co-Chief of the Money Laundering & Transnational Criminal Enterprises Unit, directing the prosecution of individuals and corporations for money laundering, complex fraud, U.S. economic sanctions, Bank Secrecy Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and cryptocurrency-related offenses, and advising the office on asset-forfeiture matters. As an Assistant United States Attorney, she served as the lead or co-lead counsel on cases charging racketeering, murder, and narcotics trafficking. She also focused on art crime, including fraud, forgeries, and theft of cultural patrimony; notable cases included the investigation, forfeiture, and ultimate repatriation of dozens of ancient Cambodian sculptures that had been fraudulently trafficked by dealer Douglas Latchford, in collusion with looters.
Prior to her career at the Department of Justice, she worked as an associate at Lankler, Siffert, & Wohl, LLP, in New York, New York, and Williams & Connolly, LLP in Washington, D.C. She clerked for the Honorable Debra Ann Livingston on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Honorable Victor Marrero on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Professor Feinstein is a graduate of Stanford Law School. She received her B.A. From Yale University and a masters in the history of art from the University of Oxford.
