Justin Brooks (born 1965) is an American criminal defense attorney and professor of law at California Western School of Law in San Diego. He is well known for his work as director of the California Innocence Project, where he has exonerated several high profile clients including football player Brian Banks.Brooks is also well known for training criminal defense attorneys in the United States as director of the Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy and LL.M. in Trial Advocacy Specializing in Federal Criminal Law. He works extensively in Latin America training lawyers as co-director of ACCESO Capacitación and creating innocence programs as co-director of Redinocente.
An avid filmmaker, Justin co-founded the Arizona Student Film Festival with fellow actor Gene Gansel. The festival is owned by the Phoenix Film Foundation, which also owns The Phoenix Film Festival.