Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityKaren Daniel
Phone: (312) 503-3027
E-mail: k-daniel@law.northwestern.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Karen Daniel is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and a senior staff attorney at the Center on Wrongful Convictions of the Bluhm Legal Clinic. She supervises second- and third-year law students in the representation of indigent criminal defendants in various stages of post-judgment proceedings, focusing on the Center's mission of identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and other serious miscarriages of justice.
Professor Daniel's clients at the Center on Wrongful Convictions have included Michael Evans, who served 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit prior to his exoneration through DNA testing; Dana Holland, who was freed after a decade of incarceration for two wrongful convictions; Randy Steidl, who became the 18th and most recent former Illinois death row inmate to be exonerated since the Illinois death penalty was reinstated in 1977; Marlon Pendleton, who was exonerated by DNA testing in 2006; Robert Wilson, whose conviction for a 1997 attempted murder was vacated nearly 10 years later after the victim admitted she was mistaken in her identification of him; and Julie Rea Harper, who was acquitted of the murder of her son after a retrial in 2006.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Wrongful Convictions
- Clinical Teaching
COURSES
EDUCATION
- BS, University of California at Davis
- JD, Harvard University
PRIOR APPOINTMENTS
- Illinois Office of the State Appellate Defender
- Office of the Cook County Public Defender
