Michael Tonry

Marvin J. Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy

Michael Tonry

312 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-625-1314

tonry001@umn.edu

University of North Carolina, A.B.
Yale University, LL.B.

Professor Michael Tonry specializes in criminal law. He teaches courses in criminal law, jurisprudence, and comparative law. In 1990, he was named the Marvin J. Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy. From 1999 to 2004 he was also Professor of Law and Public Policy and director of The Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University. Since 2001, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He has also been a senior fellow of The Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Leiden, since 2003.

Professor Tonry received his A.B. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and his LL.B. from Yale. He practiced law with Dechert, Price & Rhoads in Philadelphia and with Sonnenschein, Carlin & Nath in Chicago, specializing in corporate and real estate finance. Before joining the Minnesota faculty in 1990, he held academic posts at the University of Chicago; the University of Birmingham, England; and the University of Maryland.

In 1983, he moved to Maine to practice law, direct the Castine Research Corporation, a non-profit corporation created to receive government and foundation grants to support research and scholarship, and edit The Castine Patriot, a weekly rural newspaper. He founded and, from 1987 to 1990, directed the MacArthur Foundation-United States Department of Justice Program on Human Development & Criminal Behavior. During 1994-95, he was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. He has at various times held visiting posts at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands; the University of Lausanne, Switzerland; and The Max Planck Institute on Comparative and International Criminal Law, Freiburg. He edits Crime and Justice - A Review of Research, the Oxford University Press Studies In Crime series Crime and Public Policy, and Criminology in Europe.