65 Am. U. L. Rev. 535 (2016) 

*Principal Attorney, Phillips Black Project.  The Phillips Black Project is a public interest law practice committed to providing the highest quality legal representation to those facing the severest penalties authorized by law.  Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

**Research Fellow, Phillips Black Project.  Ms. Dorn focuses exclusively on juvenile life without parole (“JLWOP”) sentencing policy and practices.

***Graduate student, dual PhD/JD Developmental Psychology and Law Program, Cornell University.  The authors would like to thank Sheri Lynn Johnson, John Blume, and Jennifer Breen for their thoughtful comments on early drafts and Karlyn Lacey and Sarah Edwards for their invaluable research assistance.