Leigh Bienen

Senior Lecturer

Phone: (312) 503-2425
E-mail: lbbienen@law.northwestern.edu

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Related Links: Center for Legal Studies | Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930

Leigh Bienen teaches in the areas of criminal law, juries, and social science. As an attorney in New Jersey, she represented clients of the public defender in state and federal trial and appellate courts and before boards and tribunals; these cases resulted in a series of published opinions. She is a member of the bar in Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Criminal Justice
Law and Social Science

Women and the Law
Animal Rights

COURSES

PUBLICATIONS

Representative Publications

Recent Publications

Anomalies: Ritual and Language in Lethal Injection Regulations, . FORDHAM URBAN LAW JOURNAL, 2008
Not Wiser After 35 Years of Contemplating the Death Penalty, STUDIES IN LAW, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY , 2008
The Record Keepers, TRIQUARTERLY, 2006
124 TRIQUARTERLY, 2006
Learning From the Past, Living in the Present: Understanding Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930, JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINOLOGY, 2003

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EDUCATION

BA with honors in English, Cornell University
MA, University of Iowa Writers Workshop
JD, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

PRIOR APPOINTMENTS

Lecturer and Administrative Director, Undergraduate Program, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1991-95
Assistant Deputy Public Defender, Director, Special Projects section, New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate, 1977-91
Law Associate, Boalt Hall, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Research Attorney, Center of Rape Concern, Philadelphia General Hospital, 1975-76