Leigh Bienen JD - Death Penalty

Name:	Leigh Bienen, JD
Title:	Senior Lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law
Position:	Con to the question "Should the death penalty be allowed?"
Reasoning:	"The death penalty is a fraud upon the public." "No Savings in Lives or Money with Death Penalty," New York Times, Aug. 7, 1988
Theoretical Expertise Ranking:	Experts Individuals with MDs, JDs, PhDs, other relevant advanced degrees, corrections and government officials with significant involvement in, or related to, death penalty issues. [Note: Experts definition varies by site]
Involvement and Affiliations:	Senior Lecturer, Northwestern University School of Law, 1995-Present Director, Chicago Historical Homicide Project Criminal defense attorney Member of the Bar, United States Supreme Court Former Lecturer and Administrative Director, Undergraduate Program, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1991-1995 Awarded, Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA., 1981-1982 Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, 1981 Assistant Deputy Public Defender, Director of Special Projects section, New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate, 1977-1991 Law Associate, Boalt Hall, School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, 1976-1977 Graduation Prize, Fidelity Union Trust Company Award for outstanding performance in the field of Trusts and Estates, Rutgers Law School, 1975 Awarded, Research Grant, Wallace-Eljabar Fund (The Fund for New Jersey), 1974 Research Attorney, Center of Rape Concern, Philadelphia General Hospital
Education:	JD, Rutgers School of Law, State University of New Jersey, 1975 MA, Writers Workshop, State University of Iowa, 1963 BA, English, Cornell University, 1960
Contact Info:	Phone: 312-503-2425 Fax: 312-503-2035 E-Mail: lbbienen@law.northwestern.edu Website: Faculty Page
Select Publications:	Cowritten with Brandon Rottinghaus, “Learning From the Past, Living in the Present—Patterns in Chicago Homicides, 1870-1930,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Fall 2002 "Execution of the Mentally Disabled: A Discussion of Medical and Legal Perspectives," New England Journal of Criminal and Civil Confinement, Summer 2001 Cowritten with Linda Emanuel “Physician Participation in Executions: Time to Eliminate Anonymity Provisions and Protest the Practice," Annals of Internal Medicine, Nov. 20, 2001 “What We Write About When We Write About the Death Penalty—A Review of Recent Books and Literature on Capital Punishment,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Winter 1999 “The Quality of Justice in Capital Cases: Illinois as a Case Study,” Law and Contemporary Problems, Autumn 1998
Other:	None found
Also Quoted in:	1. Does a person's race affect the likelihood of him/her receiving the death penalty?