Stephanos Bibas is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Judge Bibas was previously a professor of law and criminology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. As director of the Penn Law Supreme Court Clinic, he argued six cases before the Supreme Court of the United States and filed briefs in dozens of others. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1989 with a B.A. in political theory and from Oxford University in 1991 with a B.A. in jurisprudence. He then earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1994.
After graduating from Yale Law, Judge Bibas clerked for Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court and was a litigation associate at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C. Thereafter, Judge Bibas served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he successfully prosecuted the world’s leading expert in Tiffany stained glass for hiring a grave robber to steal priceless Tiffany windows from cemeteries. Before his tenure at Penn Law, Judge Bibas taught at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Iowa College of Law and was a research fellow at Yale Law School. He has published two books and more than sixty scholarly articles.
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The Role of Mercy in the Federal Court System
Michigan Student Chapter
The University of Michigan Law School625 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Panel I: Federalism and the Separation of Powers
2024 National Student Symposium
Harvard Law School1585 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Everything I Learned About Judging I Learned as a Dad
Virginia Student Chapter
University of Virginia School of Law580 Massie Rd
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Everything I Learned about Judging, I Learned as a Dad
Yale Student Chapter
Yale Law School127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
A Creature of Statute: American Antitrust Law
2023 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
Panel I: Federalism and the Separation of Powers
2024 National Student Symposium
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Panel I: Federalism and the Separation of Powers
2024 National Student Symposium
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2023 National Lawyers Convention
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