Professor at the University of Mississippi. Professor Berry has focused his scholarly work on the Eighth Amendment and its application to criminal sentencing, including the death penalty. He has published widely, including articles in the Texas Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, and the Wisconsin Law Review, to name a few. In addition, his doctoral dissertation for his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford (UK) assessed proportionality review in capital cases by the Ohio Supreme Court over a twenty-year period.