Andrea Roth

Andrea Roth joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 2011, after 3 years as a Thomas Grey Fellow at Stanford Law and 9 years as a trial and appellate attorney at the Washington, D.C. Public Defender Service. Her research focuses on how pedigreed concepts of criminal procedure and evidentiary law work in an era of science-based prosecutions. Her recent publications include “The Embarrassing Sixth Amendment” (Cal. L. Rev. 2024); “The Lost Right to Jury Trial in ‘All’ Criminal Prosecutions (Duke L.J. 2022); and “Machine Testimony,” 126 Yale L.J. 1972 (2017). She is also a co-author of a leading Evidence casebook (Sklansky & Roth) and of the chapter on forensic pattern evidence in the forthcoming new edition of the Federal Judicial Center’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. From 2021-24, she served as national chair of the Legal Resource Task Group of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Organization of Scientific Area Committees. She is also one of several faculty co-directors of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. 

In 2019 Roth was one of four recipients of the campus-wide Distinguished Teaching Award, and chaired the campus’s committee on teaching for three years. In 2017, she received the campus-wide Prytanean Faculty Award, given to one pretenure woman faculty member. In 2016, she received the law school’s Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence. She has also received teaching awards from Women of Berkeley Law and the Berkeley Criminal Law Journal.

Education

B.S./B.A., Mathematics and Political Science, University of New Mexico (1995)
J.D., Yale Law School (1998)

Andrea Roth is not teaching any Law courses in Spring 2026.

Courses During Other Semesters

Semester	Course Num	Course Title	Teaching Evaluations
Fall 2025	230 sec. 001	Criminal Law	View Teaching Evaluation
	241 sec. 001	Evidence	View Teaching Evaluation
Spring 2025	231.1 sec. 001	Criminal Procedure - Adjudication	View Teaching Evaluation