Christopher M. Johnson
Professor of Law
Chief Appellate Defender
- BA, Carleton College
- JD, cum laude, Harvard University School of Law
- M.A.L.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
- chris.johnson@law.unh.edu
- (603) 513-5107
- Courses: Appellate Defender Program, Criminal Procedure I: The Law of Criminal Investigation, Legal Responses to Terrorism
- Committees: Curriculum Design, Professional Development/Sabbatical
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Scholarship
Before coming to the the University of New Hampshire School of Law, Christopher M. Johnson was a Staff Attorney at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, GA, from 1995 to 2001. There, Johnson represented persons facing the death penalty in Georgia and Alabama.
Professor Johnson is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the New Hampshire Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He has participated in the trial of capital cases in Georgia and Alabama; and has argued cases in the United States Courts of Appeals for the First and Eleventh Circuits, as well as in the appellate courts of Georgia, Alabama and New Hampshire.
In 2010, Professor Johnson spent a semester on a Fulbright Fellowship in the law faculty at the University of Turku, in Finland. While there, he taught a course, conducted research on the Finnish criminal justice system, and gave lectures at the Supreme Court of Finland and at the University of Lapland.
Professor Johnson is the author of several articles focusing on issues relating to the ethics and practice of criminal defense. Most recently, he has written an article published in the Mississippi Law Journal entitled Not for Love or Money: Appointing a Public Defender to Litigate a Claim of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Involving Another Public Defender, 78 Mississippi L.J. 69 (2008).
He is also the author of The Law’s Hard Choice: Self-Inflicted Injustice or Lawyer-Inflicted Indignity, 93 Kentucky L.J. 39 (2004-2005) and The New Hampshire Appellate Defender Program: An Apprenticeship Clinic, 75 Mississippi L.J. 825 (2006).
