Jonathan Wroblewski

Jonathan Wroblewski is a lecturer at Harvard Law School and has been the Director of the Law School’s Semester in Washington Program since 2010. In 2025, he completed a 35-year federal criminal justice career, the last 15 years of which he served as Director of the Office of Policy and Legislation in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department. In that capacity, he led a team of policy analysts and attorneys in developing, reviewing, and evaluating national crime, sentencing, and corrections policy and legislation. He represented the Attorney General on the United States Sentencing Commission, the Federal Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee on the Criminal Rules, and the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Council.

Jonathan began his federal career in 1988 as a prosecutor with the Department’s Civil Rights Division, where he prosecuted law enforcement misconduct, involuntary servitude, and hate crimes cases.  Before that, he served as an assistant public defender in the Alameda County, California Public Defender’s office and represented indigent criminal defendants at all stages of litigation. In 1994, Jonathan joined the United States Sentencing Commission staff, serving as Deputy General Counsel and then Director of Legislative Affairs. Jonathan’s previous academic work includes serving as a lecturer at Stanford Law School, a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology, and an adjunct professor at the George Washington University’s National Law Center and George Mason University School of Law. He graduated from Duke University in 1983 and Stanford Law School in 1986.