Professor Daniel Medwed is a leading authority on criminal law, focuses his research and pro bono activities around the topic of wrongful convictions. His book, Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison (Hachette/Basic Books, 2022), explores the range of procedural barriers that so often prevent innocent prisoners from obtaining exoneration. He also recently co-authored the seventh edition of Criminal Procedure: Principles, Policies, and Perspectives (West Academic, 2020) and the second edition of Criminal Law: Problems, Statutes, and Cases (Carolina Academic Press, 2021) . He is a founding member of the board of directors of the Innocence Network, a consortium of innocence projects throughout the world, and a former president of the board of directors of the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center. He currently serves on the board of the New England Innocence Project. He is also the legal analyst for GBH News, Boston’s local NPR and PBS affiliate.