Ken Lawson

Ken Lawson works and teaches at the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law, where he is the Co-Director of the Hawaii Innocence Project and teaches Criminal Law, Evidence and Civil Rights Law. Mr. Lawson started his legal career in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his law practice included civil-rights litigation in the area of excessive police force. Ken Lawson represented dozens of black, brown, and white families in civil rights lawsuits who lost loved ones who were unarmed and died in police custody.