About the Authors
Ronald J. Allen
Education
B.S., magna cum laude, Marshall University
J.D., magna cum laude, University of Michigan
Background
Professor Allen is the John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law at Northwestern University, in Chicago, IL. He did his undergraduate work in mathematics at Marshall University and studied law at the University of Michigan. He is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of evidence, procedure, and constitutional law. He has published five books and approximately eighty articles in major law reviews. The New York Times referred to him as one of nation's leading experts on evidence and procedure. He has been quoted in national news outlets hundreds of times, and appears regularly on national broadcast media on matters ranging from complex litigation to constitutional law to criminal justice.
Professor Allen began his career at the State University of New York, and has held professorships at the University of Iowa and Duke University prior to coming to Northwestern. He has lectured on his research at distinguished universities across the world, among them Columbia University, Cornell University, University of Chicago, University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Duke University, Oxford University, University of London, Leiden University, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, University of Edinburgh, University of British Columbia, the University of Paris (Sorbonne), Parma University, Turin University, Pavia University, University of Adelaide, Australia, and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and UNAM, Mexico City. In 1991, he was the University Distinguished Visiting Scholar, at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. One of his books has been translated into Chinese by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and he has been invited to China for a series of lectures in the summer of 2004 and the spring of 2005. He has also been invited to lecture by the governments of Mexico and Trinidad/Tobago. For the last ten years, his research has focused on the nature of juridical proof. He has been involved as a consultant on numerous cases involving complex litigation in the United States and abroad.
He is a member of the American Law Institute, has chaired the Evidence Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and was Vice-chair of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence Committee of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section. He has served as a Commissioner of the Illinois Supreme Court, assigned to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. He is presently on the Boards of the Constitutional Rights Foundation-Chicago, and the Yeager Society of Scholars of Marshall University. He is, or has served, on various boards and committees of civic and cultural institutions in Chicago.
Publications
- Deadly Dilemmas II: Bail and Crime, 85 chicago-kent law review 23-42, 2010 (with Larry Laudan)
- Theorizing About Self-Incrimination, 30 cardozo law review 729-750, 2008
- Utility and Truth in the Scholarship of Mirjan Damaška, crime, procedure and evidence in a comparative and international context: essays in honour of professor mirjan damaška 329-350, 2008 (with Georgia N. Alexakis)
- From the Enlightenment to Crawford to Holmes: Address at the Association of American Law Schools Evidence Conference, 39 seton hall law review 1-16, 2009
- Moral Choices, Moral Truth, and the Eighth Amendment, 31 harvard journal of law & public policy 25-34, 2008
- Originalism and Criminal Law and Procedure, 11 chapman law review 277-306, 2008 (with Carol Steiker, Craig S. Lerner, Hon. Christopher A. Wray, and Hon. Edith Brown Clement)
William J. Stuntz
Education
B.A., College of William and Mary, History and English, 1980
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1984
Books
- Stuntz, William J. & Joseph L. Hoffmann. Defining Crime (Aspen Publishing).
- Stuntz, William J., Daniel C. Richman & Kate Stith. Federal Criminal Law (Aspen Publishers, 2011).
- Stuntz, William J. Fighting Crime: Race, Crime, and Democracy in America (Harvard University Press).
- Allen, Ronald J., Joseph L. Hoffmann, Livingston Debra & William J. Stuntz. 2009 Supplement, ,Comprehensive Criminal Procedure, 2d ed (Aspen Publishers 2009 ed.).
- Allen, Ronald J., Joseph L. Hoffmann, Debra A. Livingston & William J. Stuntz. Comprehensive Criminal Procedure (Aspen Publishers 2nd ed. 2005).
- Allen, Ronald J., Joseph L. Hoffman, Debra Livingston & William J. Stuntz. Criminal Procedure: Investigation and the Right to Counsel (Aspen Publishers 2005).(derived from Comprehensive Criminal Procedure)
- Stuntz, William J., Ronald J. Allen, Joseph L. Hoffman & Debra A. Livingston. 2004 Supplement to Comprehensive Criminal Procedure (Aspen Business & Law 2004). (Annual Supplements in 2001, 2002 and 2003)
- Stuntz, William J., Ronald J. Allen & Richard B. Kuhns. 2000 Supplement to Constitutional Criminal Procedure (Little, Brown & Co. 2000).
(Annual Supplements in 1998 an 1999) - Stuntz, William J., Ronald J. Allen & Richard B. Kuhns. Constitutional Criminal Procedure (Little, Brown & Co. 3rd edition ed. 1995).
Joseph L. Hoffman
Education
B.A., Harvard College, 1978
J.D., University of Washington, 1984
Background
Professor Hoffmann is an award-winning scholar and law teacher. He holds the Harry Pratter Professorship, and is a past recipient of the Law School Gavel Award and the university-wide Outstanding Young Faculty Award. In addition to courses in criminal law and procedure and seminars on death penalty law and the psychology of criminal law, Hoffmann teaches seminars on the law and society of Japan and Asia.
Before joining the Indiana Law faculty in 1986, Hoffmann clerked for the Hon. Phyllis A. Kravitch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and for the Hon. William H. Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court.
A nationally recognized authority on the death penalty, he has also written extensively about criminal procedure and habeas corpus law. Hoffmann is a co-author of one of the leading casebooks in criminal procedure law, Comprehensive Criminal Procedure (Aspen 2nd ed. 2005) (with Allen, Livingston, and Stuntz). He served as Co-Chair and Reporter for the Massachusetts Governor's Council on Capital Punishment, and has spearheaded successful death penalty reform efforts in Illinois and Indiana. Professor Hoffmann is also on the faculty of the National Judicial College, where he teaches about death penalty law.
Hoffmann has been a Fulbright Professor in 1996 at the University of Tokyo, and in 1997-98 was a Visiting Professor at its International Center for Comparative Law and Politics. In 2003-04, he was a Fulbright Professor at the Universities of Erlangen and Jena in Germany.
Books
- House v. Bell and the Death of Innocence, in DEATH PENALTY STORIES (John H. Blume and Jordan M. Steiker, Eds.). New York: Foundation Press, 2009.
- Comprehensive Criminal Procedure, 2nd ed. (with Ronald Jay Allen, et al.). New York: Aspen, 2005. Also: Supplements 2007, 2008.
- "The 'Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause': A Limit on the Power to Punish or Constitutional Rhetoric?," in The Bill of Rights in Modern America (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN: 2nd Ed. 2007) (D. Bodenhamer & J. Ely, Jr., eds.).
Deborah A. Livingston
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1984
B.A., Princeton University, 1980
Background
Judge Livingston was appointed United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit on May 17, 2007 and entered on duty June 1, 2007. Prior to her appointment she was the Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where she also served as Vice Dean from 2005 to 2006. Judge Livingston joined the Columbia faculty in 1994. She continues to serve as a member of that faculty as the Paul J. Kellner Professor.
Judge Livingston received her B.A., magna cum laude, in 1980 from Princeton University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D., magna cum laude, in 1984 from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor on the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, she served as a law clerk to Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Judge Livingston was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 1986 to 1991 and she served as a Deputy Chief of Appeals in the Criminal Division from 1990 to 1991. She was an associate with the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison from 1985 to 1986 and again from 1991 to 1992, when she elected to pursue an academic career. Judge Livingston was a member of the University of Michigan’s Law School faculty from 1992 until 1994.
Judge Livingston is a co-author of the casebook, Comprehensive Criminal Procedure, and has published numerous academic articles on legal topics. She has taught courses in evidence, criminal law and procedure, and national security and terrorism. From 1994 to 2003, Judge Livingston was a Commissioner on New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board.
Andrew D. Leipold
Education
J.D., University of Virginia
B.S., Boston University
Background
Professor Andrew Leipold, the Edwin M. Adams Professor of Law, graduated summa cum laude in public relations from Boston University. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a member of Order of the Coif and editor-in-chief of the Virginia Law Review. After graduation, he served as clerk to Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and to Justice Lewis Powell, Jr., of the United States Supreme Court. He then worked for Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia.
Since joining the faculty in 1992, Professor Leipold has been voted Outstanding Faculty Member eight times and received the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching in 2000. Most recently, he served for two and one-half years as associate dean for Academic Affairs. He has been a visiting professor at Boston College Law School and Duke University School of Law, where he was recognized with the Distinguished Teaching Award.
Professor Leipold writes in the area of criminal law and procedure and has served as a consultant to the Illinois Criminal Law Reform Commission, the Governor’s Truth in Sentencing Commission, and the Office of the Independent Counsel for the Whitewater Investigation. His most recent publication is entitled, "The Impact of Joinder & Severance on Federal Criminal Cases: An Empirical Study" (59 Vanderbilt Law Review). In 2005, he published "How the Pretrial Process Contributes to Wrongful Convictions" (42 American Criminal Law Review 1123), "Why are Federal Judges So Acquittal Prone" (83 Washington University Law Quarterly 151), "The Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment" (Heritage Foundation Guide to the Constitution), "Strategy and Remorse in Capital Trials"(80 Indiana Law Journal 47) and Volumes 1 and 1A in Federal Practice and Procedure: Criminal (3d ed.). His essay, "The Limits of Deterrence Theory in the War on Drugs," was published in a symposium issue of The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice at the University of Iowa, and he authored a chapter in Controversial Issues in Criminal Justice and Criminology. Other articles include "The Problem of the Innocent, Acquitted Defendant" (94 Northwestern University Law Review 1297, 2001), and "Constitutionalizing Jury Selection in Criminal Cases" (86 Georgetown Law Journal 945, 1998).
