Nathan Pierce is a professor of criminal justice at a major research university, where he specializes in white-collar sentencing disparities and the political economy of financial crime prosecution. He has published in the Stanford Law Review, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, and the Yale Journal on Regulation. At ConFraud, he writes opinion and analysis pieces that bridge academic research and public understanding — explaining why certain fraudsters get probation while others get decades, how prosecutorial discretion shapes which crimes get investigated, and what reform could actually look like. He holds a Ph.D. in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.