Michael Romano co-founded the Three Strikes Project with Professor Larry Marshall in 2006. Romano is a Lecturer in Law and the Director of the Three Strikes Project. He has been recognized as one of the top lawyers in California. He maintains a small criminal appeals, post-conviction, and civil rights practice in San Francisco. Romano was a John Knight Fellow at Yale Law School and graduated with honors from Stanford Law School in 2003. He clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Richard C. Tallman.