Education
Binghamton University - B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude
University of Maryland School of Law, JD
Courses Taught
Criminal Law and Evidence
Biographical information
Prior to joining the Law School, Professor Draper served as the Director of the Trial Advocacy Center for South Texas College of Law Houston, where he taught Ethical Dimensions of Criminal Practice, Evidentiary Foundations, Trial Advocacy 1, and Texas Criminal Procedure 2024-2025.
Prior to joining academia, he served as a prosecutor in New York and Texas, where he specialized in economic crimes.
Publications
Virtual Grand Juries, Houston Law Review Online (2023).
Revenge of the Sixth: The Constitutional Reckoning of Pandemic Justice, Marquette Law Review (2022) (issue lead article).
Prosecutorial Dilemmas amid the Pandemic and Online Jury Trials, Southwestern Law Review (2022) (invited symposium essay).
No More Half Measures: The case for compulsory voting in United States elections, Elon Law Review (2021) (invited symposium article).
And Justice for None: How COVID-19 is crippling the criminal jury right, Boston College Law Review E. Supplement, 2020.
Zoom Justice: When constitutional rights collide in cyberspace, Northwestern University Law Review of Note, 2020. Featured in the Law Review’s COVID-19 and the Law Blog Initiative.
Popular Fallacy: A public choice analysis of Electoral College reform, International Journal of Public Law & Policy, 2011
(peer reviewed).
Affiliations
- Texas Bar Foundation
- Texas Bar College
Research & Teaching Interests
My primary research interests are in criminal law and election law. In criminal law,
my research explores the challenges for our system of criminal justice of remote trials
during and after the COVID pandemic. In election law, my research explores electoral
reform from a public choice perspective. My teaching interests include criminal law, evidence, ethics, and trial advocacy.