Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
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 seventy scholarly articles.
Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law
Professor Andrew E. Taslitz, over the course of his almost twenty years in legal academia, has taught at Duke University, Villanova University, and now currently at Howard University. He is also the Welsh S. White Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh.
Professor Taslitz is the author of five books, and has published over 100 law review articles and book reviews. His writings have particularly centered on search and seizure issues, wrongful convictions, sexual assault, hate crimes legislation, freedom of speech, the expressive function of law, statutory interpretation methods, and scientific and character evidence, and constitutional issues.
He is a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and, before entering teaching, worked both as a prosecutor in Philadelphia, PA., and as an associate at Schnader, Harrison, Segal, and Lewis in Philadelphia.
2014 ABA Awards
2014 ABA AWARD RECEPIENTS ABA Medal The American Bar Association awards its highest honor, the...
The Machinery of Criminal Justice - Faculty Book Podcast
Stephanos Bibas, Andrew Taslitz
The Machinery of Criminal Justice discusses the shift in American criminal law from being a system...