Rescued From Obscurity: 11,439 Stories of Life and Death in Chicago
Title: Rescued From Obscurity: 11,439 Stories of Life and Death in Chicago Year: 2007 Publisher: The Chicago Tribune Author: David Thigpen Issue: January 21, 2007 Description: For decades the large leather-trimmed volumes sat in the recesses of the archives of the Chicago Police Department, with nary a visitor. Then in the summer of 1998, researcher […]
Leigh Bienen and the Lookingglass Theatre
Title: Leigh Bienen and the Lookingglass Theatre Year: 2017 Publisher: Lookingglass Theatre Issue: N/A Description: Her work has been generously supported by The Joyce Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation, The McCormick Tribune Foundation, and Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. In 2009 she published an empirical study of the cost of capital punishment in Illinois which played […]
Leigh B. Bienen and Florence Kelley
Title: Leigh B. Bienen and Florence Kelley Year: 2008 Publisher: The New Historia Issue: N/A Description: Currently, she has launched (December 2008) a website, The Life and Times of Florence Kelley in Chicago, 1890-1899, which is a repository for 35,000 legal and historical records and photographs.
Leigh Bienen Shares View of ‘The Gates’
Title: Leigh Bienen Shares View of ‘The Gates’ Year: 2005 Interviewer: Leigh Bienen Publisher: Northwestern Now/The Chicago Tribune Issue: March 1, 2005 Description: Leigh Bienen, a senior lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law, was in New York City in February to be a monitor for the installation of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “The Gates.” Here […]
Legal scholar’s new website offers a picture of the criminal justice system
Title: Legal scholar’s new website offers a picture of the criminal justice system Year: 2020 Interviewer: Hilary Hurd Anyaso Publisher: Northwestern Now Issue: May 29, 2020 Description: Using a small subset of death-eligible murder cases, a new database and website, 2003 Chicago Murders, launched by a Northwestern Pritzker School of Law professor, Leigh Buchanan Bienen, […]
Leigh Bienen: a career from fiction writing to capital punishment
Title: Leigh Bienen: a career from fiction writing to capital punishment Year: 2016 Interviewer: Joe Popely Publisher: Northwestern Now Issue: November 13, 2016 Description: Podcast with the author, researcher and reformer who opens up about her winding, impactful career Podcast link
Of Race, Crime and Punishment
Title: Of Race, Crime and Punishment Year: 1987 Author: Leigh Bienen Publisher: The New York Times Issue: June 21, 1987 Description: THE United States Supreme Court has declared that it is unpersuaded by statistical evidence indicating that the capital-case processing system in Georgia may be significantly affected by race, in particular by whether or not […]
No Savings In Lives or Money With Death Penalty
Title: No Savings In Lives or Money With Death Penalty Year: 1988 Author: Linda Emanuel and Leigh Bienen Publisher: The New York Times Issue: August 7, 1988 Description: The death penalty is a fraud upon the public. The taxpayers are being sold a bill of goods. Both a simple and a complex analysis of the […]
Physician Participation in Executions: Time To Eliminate Anonymity Provisions and Protest the Practice
Title: Physician Participation in Executions: Time To Eliminate Anonymity Provisions and Protest the Practice Year: 2001 Author: Linda Emanuel and Leigh Bienen Publisher: Annals of Internal Medicine Issue: Volume 135, No. 10, pp.922-924 Description: In this issue, Farber and colleagues have provided dramatic findings that warrant the attention of the profession. In their study, a […]
The Reimposition of Capital Punishment in New Jersey: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion
Title: The Reimposition of Capital Punishment in New Jersey: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion Year: 1988 Author: Leigh B. Bienen, Neil Alan Weiner, Deborah W. Denno, Paul D. Allison, Douglas Lane Mills Publisher: Rutgers Law Review Issue: Volume 41, No. 27, pp. 27-342 Description: After Furman v. Georgia held that state statutes that allow for […]