Lauren Myerscough-Mueller joined the University of Chicago Law School as a Lecturer in Law in the Exoneration Project Clinic in July 2020. Lauren is a Staff Attorney at the Exoneration Project where she works to fight wrongful convictions and free innocent people. Prior to her work at the Exoneration Project, she represented the wrongfully convicted at the Illinois Innocence Project for over three years. Lauren also practiced as a criminal defense attorney in the Chicago area, both as a private attorney and a public defender. She graduated from the Northwestern University School of Law, where she participated in several clinics and interned for the Cook County Public Defender Homicide Task Force for two years. She received her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis.