Visiting Lecturer
Director of Trial Advocacy
Co-coach UNLV AMTA Mock Trial Team
Faculty Advisor, UNLV Trial Club
Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity
Faculty Advisor, National Society of Collegiate Scholars
Jason Mitchell received his Juris Doctorate in law from Syracuse University College of Law in 2003. In 2005 he received his second law degree from California Western School of Law, the Master of Laws in Federal Criminal Defense and Trial Advocacy. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in International Relations, Political Philosophy, and Comparative Politics. His research agenda is focused in the areas of the terrorism, law of war, international law, international and domestic criminal law, international relations theory, international human rights, theory building, and critical legal theory applied to the study of terrorism and political violence.
Presently Mr. Mitchell is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in the Criminal Justice Department, where he teaches courses in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Trial Evidence, and Trial Advocacy. He is the Director of the Trial Advocacy Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the co-coach of the UNLV AMTA Mock Trial Team. He also serves as the Faculty Advisor for the UNLV Trial Club, Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity, as well as the Faculty Advisor for the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and serves as a member of the advisory board for the interdisciplinary book series entitled, Migration, Demography, & Environmental Change: Global Challenges.
He is also the president, CEO, and chairman of the board of directors of the Human Rights and Social Justice Center, Inc., a not-for-profit nongovernmental organization that he founded. The HRSJC provides pro bono services both internationally and domestically in the fields of criminal defense, capital punishment, securing international human rights, civil rights litigation, extradition, seeking political asylum, and protecting the rights of Native Americans. The HRSJC is also involved with advocating for progressive change in government policy at the domestic and international level working with legal and human rights organizations, human rights professionals, including country experts, lawyers, journalists, and academics in writing legal evaluations, social justice assessments, and impartial reports promoting critical inquiry regarding key issues of international and domestic criminal law, international human rights law, and humanitarian law. The HRSJC also provides legal and political education and training to both law students and lawyers in order to advance greater social justice.
Mr. Mitchell is also very active in the community, volunteering regularly with the State Bar of Nevada, and has served as the resident mock trial coach at both Spring Valley High School, and The Leadership and Law Preparatory Academy at Canyon Springs High School where he coached high school students in national mock trial competitions.