Robin Peguero

Professor Robin M. Peguero, a New York Times-reviewed novelist and lawyer, spent seven years storytelling to juries for a living as a homicide prosecutor in Miami. A first-generation American raised in Hialeah – whose father and mother served in the U.S. Army after emigrating from the Dominican Republic and Ecuador, respectively – Professor Peguero graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He has written for the Miami Herald, the Harvard Crimson, and the Harvard Law Review, and – prior to becoming a lawyer – served as press spokesman for U.S. Congressman Charlie Rangel and speechwriter for U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar. He went on to serve as investigative counsel on the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol and as chief of staff to U.S. Congressman Glenn Ivey.

Professor Peguero has taught at Georgetown University Law Center, University of Miami School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, University of Miami School of Law, and now St. Thomas University College of Law, focusing on criminal law and procedure, particularly juror selection and the social dynamics of the jury. He is the author of With Prejudice (2022), a legal thriller, and One in the Chamber(2024), a political murder mystery.