He admitted that his decision to join the Harvard faculty was not without initial reservation--he has lived and taught in Charlottesville, Va for over a decade--but he now looks forward to joining the Harvard faculty, having resolved to come to Boston with his wife and three children.

Upon his more permanent arrival in Cambridge next July, Stuntz said he anticipates teaching primarily within the criminal law and criminal procedure department of HLS--most probably the first-year criminal law course, as well as courses in advanced criminal procedure and federal criminal law from year to year.

Jeffries and Clark both praise Stuntz's knowledge and capabilities in these fields, in particular his ability to analyze both criminal law and criminal procedure in a joint context.

His published works include "The Uneasy Relationship Between Criminal Procedure and Criminal Justice" and "The Substantive Origins of Criminal Procedure," both in the Yale Law Journal.

Stuntz has spoken often at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., and has also lectured on the relationship between Christianity and legal theory. He said he hopes to write further on overcriminalization in modern America, as well as legal regulation of the police.

Stuntz received a B.A. in history and English from the College of William and Mary. Four years later, in 1984, Stuntz earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia.

After graduating, he held clerkships for Judge Louis H. Pollack of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and for Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.