Mr. Allison is a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law. He is the Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic and Co-director of the Actual Innocence Clinic. Prior to returning to the law school in a full-time capacity, he was an adjunct member of the faculty for 27 years. He was licensed in Texas in 1971 and has practiced at all levels of the state and federal court systems. He is board-certified in Criminal Law by the State Bar of Texas. Mr. Allison also taught in the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin from 1995 to 2002, teaching a junior seminar entitled "Franz Kafka and the Systems of Punishment." He has also taught over sixty National Institute of Trial Advocacy based courses including seven National and Advanced National NITA courses, and NITA based courses at numerous law schools. He is a past Editor-in-Chief of Voice for the Defense, the magazine for the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers' Association. In 2000, he obtained the DNA-based exoneration of Carlos Lavernia and three months later obtained the exoneration of Christopher Ochoa, also based on DNA. Both were serving life sentences. In June 2001, he was named Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year, 2000-2001, by the Criminal Justice Section of the State Bar of Texas. Mr. Allison is a former Navy officer who served with the River Patrol forces in Vietnam.