John T. Rago is assistant professor of law at Duquesne University School of Law, where he serves as executive director of The Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law and director of the School’s Post-conviction DNA Project.
In addition to his teaching in the area of criminal law and procedure, he maintains a faculty appointment to the Duquesne University Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, where he teaches graduate courses on Wrongful Convictions, Foundations in American Law, and Constitutional Criminal Procedure.
Professor Rago, whose work is focused in large part, on the subjects of innocence reform and wrongful convictions, also serves as an appointed member to the Innocence Project’s Policy Group of the Cardozo School of Law in New York.
Before joining the Law School’s administration as associate dean in 1993, followed by his appointment to the School’s faculty in 2001, Professor Rago was in private practice and served as a law clerk in both the federal and state courts. He is admitted to practice before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
He holds degrees from Duquesne University’s College of Arts and Sciences and Law School.
