Chicago History Comes Alive Through Interactive Databases
Title: Chicago History Comes Alive Through Interactive Databases Year: 2024 Publisher: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law News Author: Northwestern Now Staff Issue: January 29, 2024 Description: Writer, advocate and teacher Leigh Bienen’s digital projects are lenses for viewing extraordinary periods in our past
Murder and Its Consequences: Essays on Capital Punishment in America
Title: Murder and Its Consequences: Essays on Capital Punishment in America Year: 2011 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: Northwestern University Press Description: The essays in Murder and Its Consequences span several periods in the history of capital punishment in America and the professional career of Leigh Bienen, a leading researcher on the death penalty. “A Good Murder” describes […]
Crimes of the Century
Title: Crimes of the Century Year: 1998 Author: Gilbert Geis, Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: Ontario Review Press Description: In compelling narrative, the authors probe the sensational cases of Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard A. Loeb, the Scottsboro “boys,” Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Alger Hiss, and O.J. Simpson, highlighting significant lessons about criminal behavior and the administration of criminal justice. Each […]
The Left-Handed Marriage: Stories
Title: The Left-Handed Marriage: Stories Year: 2001 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: Ontario Review Press Description: Leigh Buchanan Bienen has published short fiction in TriQuarterly, The Mississippi Review, Ontario Review, the O. Henry Awards anthology, and elsewhere. An attorney whose areas of expertise include capital punishment, sex crimes, and rape reform legislation, she has published […]
Florence Kelley, Factory Inspector in 1890s Chicago, and the Children
Title: Florence Kelley, Factory Inspector in 1890s Chicago, and the Children Year: 2014 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: Open Books, Chicago, Stacy Ratner, Founder Description: A new book by a Northwestern University School of Law scholar aims to fill in the gaps in all that has been written about Florence Kelley—focusing particularly on the somewhat […]
Wives do things!
Title: Wives do things! Year: 2001 Publisher: The Chicago Tribune Author: Nara Schoenberg Issue: June 13, 2001 Description: She’s the spouse of a university president, but Leigh Buchanan Bienen is also a lawyer, professor and prize-winning short story writer.
Study: Pollution worries women more
Title: Study: Pollution worries women more Year: 2004 Publisher: The Chicago Tribune Author: Jon Van Issue: February 12, 1996 Description: A discussion of pollution laws extends into changing attitudes of the relationship between men and women, including the use of capital punishment in the United States.
A diary: New York City just wild about saffron
Title: A diary: New York City just wild about saffron Year: 2004 Publisher: The Chicago Tribune Author: Leigh Bienen Issue: February 18, 2005 Description: Leigh Bienen, a senior lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law, was in New York City this week to be a monitor for the installation of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “The Gates.” Here […]
Good old days? Not for killings—Homicide rate for 1930 nearly same as last year’s
Title: Good old days? Not for killings—Homicide rate for 1930 nearly same as last year’s Year: 2004 Publisher: The Chicago Sun-Times Author: Frank Main Issue: June 8, 2004 Description: The Chicago Sun-Times article announcing the launch of the Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930 website, which received ~70k visits the weekend of its launch. What is perhaps […]
Crime Chicago Style
Title: Crime Chicago Style Year: 2007 Publisher: The Chicago Tribune Author: Charles M. Madigan and Tribune Staff Writer Issue: August 19, 1998 Description: After decades in the recesses of the of the Chicago Police Department at at 11th and State, the handwritten record of 11,000 Chicago murders from 1870-1930 were turned over to the Illinois […]