Faculty Profile: Joy Radice

Professor Joy Radice is an Associate Professor and the Director of Clinical Programs at the University of Tennessee College of Law.  She graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School.  Joining the College of Law faculty in August 2012, Professor Radice teaches in the Advocacy Clinic and the Expungement Mini-Clinic.  She launched the Expungement Clinic to train students to use a range of statutory tools to assist individuals in removing charges from their criminal records and reintegrating them after a criminal conviction.

Professor Radice’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of criminal law and the administrative state, juvenile rights and post-adjudication consequences, and the gap in access to civil counsel. Her scholarship has appeared in a number of journals, including the Georgetown Law Journal, the Emory Law Journal, the University of Colorado Law Review, and the Columbia Journal of Race and Law. She is also a co-editor of Beyond Elite Law: Access to Justice for Americans of Average Means (Cambridge University Press) and a co-author of Developing Professional Skills: Criminal Law (West Publishing). 

Professor Radice is a Commissioner on the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Access to Justice Commission, she is on the Executive Committee of Knoxville’s chapter of the American Inns of Court, and she serves as the Chair for the Knoxville Bar Association’s Access to Justice Reentry Subcommittee.

Professor Radice has won numerous awards, including the 2023 Tom and Elizabeth Fox Faculty Award for outstanding service to the bench and bar, the 2020 Harold C. Warner Outstanding Teacher Award, the 2019 WYCA Tribute to Women Honoree in the category of education, and the 2019 Marilyn V. Yarbrough Faculty Award for Writing Excellence.  She has been selected for the HERS Leadership Institute, has been awarded a University of Tennessee Creative Teaching Grant, and has served as a UT Junior Faculty Fellow. 

Prior to joining UT, Professor Radice was the 2008-09 NYU Derrick Bell Fellow and an Acting Assistant Professor at NYU School of Law. Professor Radice has dedicated her legal career to serving those who cannot afford legal representation. After graduating from law school, she received a prestigious Skadden Public Interest Fellowship to launch the Harlem Reentry Advocacy Project to represent people facing collateral consequences of criminal convictions at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. This work inspired her research about expungement and the enduring impact that criminal convictions have on people’s lives.  It also led to her community work in Tennessee to help people remove obstacles created by criminal convictions and offer them a second chance to rebuild their lives.