Carrie Sperling
Wisconsin Innocence Project Co-Director
Madison, WI
Carrie Sperling joined the University of Wisconsin Law School in August 2013 where she now serves as the Interim Director of the Frank J. Remington Center and Co-Director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project. Sperling has a broad range of practice, teaching, and management experience.
Professor Sperling publishes at the intersection of law and science. Her articles apply the latest social science to legal persuasion and legal pedagogy and address the dangers of unreliable forensic science in criminal trials. Some of her cases have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Dallas Morning News, The Sacramento Bee, The Arizona Republic, and the Phoenix New Times.She has also served as a law clerk to the Hon. Jerry Buckmeyer, U.S. District Judge, and the Hon. Paul D. Stickney, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Northern District of Texas.