Eileen R. Prescott

Eileen Prescott will join the University of Georgia School of Law in the fall of 2025 as an assistant professor teaching in the area of criminal law.

She comes to UGA from Wake Forest University, where she served as the project director for the law school’s Accountable Prosecutor Project. For four years, Prescott led research in collaboration with students on prosecutor accountability and published the National Report on the State Law on Prosecutor Immunity. She also worked to organize a variety of transparency-oriented efforts such as a televised prosecutor debate, speaking events with wrongly incarcerated people and local Know Your Rights events with high school students.

Previously, she served for two years as an assistant district attorney in the Federal Litigation Unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, responding to federal habeas petitions from state prisoners who were convicted in Philadelphia. After law school, Prescott returned to her hometown of Peoria, Illinois to serve as judicial clerk for Chief Judge James E. Shadid of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois.

Specializing in criminal law, criminal procedure and evidence, Prescott’s article “Absolutely Unnecessary Immunity” is forthcoming in the Nebraska Law Review. Her symposium piece “Carceral Control and Choice Paralysis,” coauthored with incarcerated writer Michelle Theer, is forthcoming in the Touro Journal of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity. 

Prescott earned her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Bradley University and her law degree from the University of Chicago, where she served on the Chicago Journal of International Law. She met her husband playing in the pit band for the law school musical.