Daniel Epstein is a PhD candidate in political science with research interests in contemporary political theory, legal theory, social movements, and the politics of prison and police abolitionism. His dissertation, An Abolitionist Theory of Law, places the writings and activities of prison and police abolitionists in the United States in conversation with a range of work in political and legal theory to illuminate a theory of law divorced from sovereign violence and prefigured in contemporary abolitionist thought and praxis.

Daniel also holds an MLS (Master of Legal Studies) from the University of Chicago Law School, as well as a graduate certificate in Human Rights. The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory and The Pozen Family Center for Human Rights have supported his dissertation research. His academic work has previously appeared in The Journal of Law and Political Economy ("Commodified Justice and American Penal Form," Volume 2, no. 1 (2021): 70-93)."

For more information, please visit his website: https://daniel-epstein.academic.ws/.