Last updated on:
11/10/2008 |
Author: ProCon.org
Leigh Bienen, JD Biography
- Title:
- Senior Lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law
- Position:
- Con to the question "Should the Death Penalty Be Allowed?"
- Reasoning:
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“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:
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Experts
Individuals with MDs, JDs, PhDs, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to death penalty issues. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to death penalty issues. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- 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:
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- JD, Rutgers School of Law, State University of New Jersey, 1975
- MA, Writers Workshop, State University of Iowa, 1963
- BA, English, Cornell University, 1960
- Other:
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