Education
- B.A., Ursinus College
- J.D., University of Tulsa College of Law
Research Interests
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure
About
Professor Brittany Deitch is a Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Professor Deitch teaches and researches in the areas of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure and is especially interested in the intersection of criminal punishment and poverty.
Prior to joining the College of Law, Professor Deitch was on the faculty at the Capital University Law School. Her articles have appeared in the Alabama Law Review, University of Colorado Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, among others.
Professor Deitch holds a JD with highest honors from University of Tulsa College of Law and a BA in English and Politics from Ursinus College. She began her academic career as a J.D. Case Writing Fellow at Harvard Law School and then began teaching as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.
Additional Information
J.D.:
- Criminal Procedure: Adjudication 5830
Doing Time: Aging in Prison and the Evolution of Criminal Identity, in The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Criminal Responsibility (eds., Ken Levy & Raff Donelson) (forthcoming 2026).
Pay-to-Stay Laws and Private Prisons, 28 U. Pa. J.L. & Soc. Change 1 (2025).
Estate to State: Pay-to-Stay Statutes and the Problematic Seizure of Inherited Property, 95 U. Colo. L. Rev. 839 (2024).
Rehabilitation or Revolving Door: How Parole Is a Trap for Those in Poverty, 111 Geo. L.J. Online 46 (2022).
Life Without Parole as Death Without Dignity, 72 Ala. L. Rev. 327 (2020).
Retributivist Theories’ Conjoined Twins Problems, 87 U. Cin. L. Rev. 138 (2018).
The Unconstitutionality of Criminal Jury Selection, 26 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 1059 (2018).
Retributivism’s Conjoined Twins Problem, 53 Crim. L. Bull. 953 (2017) (peer-reviewed).