Erik Luna is a law professor at Arizona State University. His interests include criminal law, criminal procedure, and constitutional law. Luna was a prosecutor in the San Diego District Attorney’s Office and a fellow and lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. Luna has served as the senior Fulbright Scholar to New Zealand, where he taught at Victoria University Law School (Wellington, New Zealand) and conducted research on sentencing alternatives.
Luna has been a visiting scholar with the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg, Germany), a visiting professor with the Cuban Society of Penal Sciences (Havana, Cuba), a visiting professional in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (The Hague, Netherlands), and a research fellow with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Bonn, Germany). Prior to Arizona State University, Luna was the Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University, and before that, he was the Hugh B. Brown Professor of Law at the University of Utah.
Among other professional activities, Luna is a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Working Group on Criminal Law Issues. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern California and received his JD with honors from Stanford Law School, where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review.