CURRICULUM VITAE

Laura H. Nirider 375 E. Chicago Ave., 8th Floor Chicago, Illinois 60611 (312) 503-2204 (office) (312) 503-8977 (fax) [email protected]

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW, BLUHM LEGAL CLINIC

Co-Director, Center on Wrongful Convictions, 2019-Present Director, Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, 2009-2018

Clinical Professor of Law, 2020-present Clinical Associate Professor, 2018-2020 Clinical Assistant Professor, 2013-2018 Clinical Fellow, 2009-2013

My responsibilities include directing the Center’s research, mission and work; producing and promoting interdisciplinary scholarship around Fifth Amendment doctrine and the problem of false confessions; representing wrongfully convicted adults and children; and co-teaching a clinical course on wrongful convictions. My research, courtroom work, and classroom work focus on police interrogations and confessions.

I maintain an ongoing caseload of federal and state appellate and post-conviction cases involving individuals who were convicted as children or adolescents. The majority of my clients’ cases involve confessions. In addition to my direct representation work, I conduct research and publish scholarship around Fifth Amendment doctrine and interrogative practice; I consult on and write amicus curiae briefs in cases involving interrogations and juvenile justice across the country, including before the United States Supreme Court; I speak regularly before a wide range of professional and popular audiences about wrongful convictions and false confessions; and I undertake collaborative efforts with law enforcement in support of interrogation reform. I also regularly appear as an expert on interrogations in print, film, audio, and digital media outlets that range from Netflix’s to the New York Times.

In my role as Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, I helped develop the first organization in the world that focused exclusively on wrongfully convicted teenagers and children. Since the Center’s inception, I helped raise over $1,500,000 in support of the Center. That organization is now continuing under the auspices of the Center on Wrongful Convictions.

I also write and co-host Wrongful Convictions: False Confessions, a podcast produced by Lava Media that tells real stories of false confessions. Our podcast reached the #3 spot on the U.S.

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Apple overall podcast charts and #1 on the U.S. Apple true crime podcast charts and has been nominated for a Webby Award.

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP, Chicago, IL Associate, 2008-2009

SELECTED LITIGATION

Dassey v. Dittmann, 17-1172 (United States Supreme Court, 2018) Co-lead counsel, with former United States Solicitor General, in federal habeas action involving sixteen-year-old who confessed to rape-murder during police interrogation in globally high-profile case.

State v. Andersen, 80-CR-1405 (Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, 2015) Co-counsel in post-conviction action involving a nineteen-year-old who falsely confessed to murder.

Yates v. County of St. Clair et al., 14-CV-00934 (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, 2015) Co-counsel in civil rights action on behalf of seventeen-year-old who falsely confessed to armed robbery during police interrogation.

State v. Villegas, No. 94 ODO 9328 (Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 2013) Co-counsel in post-conviction action and retrial involving sixteen-year-old who falsely confessed to double murder.

Newman v. Gaetz, No. 08 CV 4240 (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 2012) (affirmed, Newman v. Harrington, 726 F.3d 921 (7th Cir. 2013)) Co-counsel in federal habeas corpus action and in subsequent retrial involving a sixteen- year-old charged with murder.

People v. Taylor et al., 92 CR 27247 & 95 CR 23475 (Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, 2011) (“Dixmoor Five”) Co-counsel in post-conviction action involving five convicted teenagers, three of whom had falsely confessed to rape-murder during police interrogation.

J.D.B. v. North Carolina, 131 S.Ct. 2394 (United States Supreme Court, 2011) Counsel amicus curiae on behalf of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth in support of juvenile defendant J.D.B. The majority opinion (Sotomayor, J.) held that a child’s age must be considered as part of the Miranda custody calculus and cited to the Center’s amicus brief to find that the risk of is “all the more troubling…[and] all the more acute” when the suspect is a juvenile.

Echols v. State, No. CR08-1493 (Arkansas State Court, 2011) Co-counsel on behalf of alleged ringleader of the “,” who was sentenced to death in internationally-known triple murder case.

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In re T.C., 09-1128 (Arkansas Supreme Court, 2010) Counsel amicus curiae in support of twelve-year-old defendant T.C.

PUBLICATIONS

Laura Nirider, Richard Leo, and Deborah Davis, Interrogative Suggestibility, in Litigator’s Handbook of Forensic Medicine, Psychiatry & Psychology, Demosthenes Lorandos, ed., Thomson Reuters Press (forthcoming 2021). SSRN here.

Laura Nirider, Why the Law Fails to Prevent False Confessions, in Urgent Issues and Prospects in Reinforcing Interrogation Practices in the United States and Canada, Legal and Criminological Psychology (2021) 26, 1-24. SSRN here.

Laura Nirider, Rebecca Brown, and Lauren Kaeseberg, Police Deception Too Often Leads to False Confessions. Ban the Tactic, Chicago Tribune (April 1, 2021). Available here.

Allison D. Redlich, Reveka V. Shteynberg, and Laura H. Nirider, Pragmatic Implication in the Interrogation Room: A Comparison of Juveniles and Adults, Journal of Experimental Criminology (August 2019). Available here.

Laura Nirider & , False Confessions Drive the True Crime TV Craze, But It’s Time to End the Spectacle, Chicago Tribune (Aug. 9, 2019). Available here.

Laura Nirider, Megan Crane, and Steven Drizin, Gerald Gault, Meet : Preventing Juvenile False and Coerced Confessions in the 21st Century, reprinted in Rights, Race, and Reform: 50 Years of Child Advocacy in the Juvenile Justice System, Laura Cohen et al., eds., Routledge Press (2018). Available here.

Laura Nirider, Megan Crane, and Steven Drizin, Gerald Gault, Meet Brendan Dassey: Preventing Juvenile False and Coerced Confessions in the 21st Century, NACDL Champion at 28-32 (April 2017). Available here.

Megan Crane, Laura Nirider, and Steven A. Drizin, The Truth About Juvenile False Confessions, American Bar Association Insights on Law & Society 16.2 (Winter 2016). Available here.

Steven A. Drizin, Laura H. Nirider, and Joshua A. Tepfer, Juvenile Justice Investigation: Plot Contamination, Cultural Stereotypes, and the Scripting of Juvenile False Confessions, in Examining Wrongful Convictions: Stepping Back, Moving Forward, Allison Redlich et al., ed. (2014).

Joshua A. Tepfer, Laura H. Nirider, & Steven A. Drizin, Scrutinizing Confessions in a New Era of Juvenile Jurisprudence, Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association (Vol. 50, Issue 1) (Jan. 2014). Available here.

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Laura H. Nirider, Opinion Editorial: Recording Interrogations Should Be the Norm, Arizona Republic (April 22, 2013). Available here.

Steven A. Drizin, Joshua A. Tepfer, Laura H. Nirider, & James Nawoichyk, Reducing Risks: An Executive Guide to Effective Juvenile Interview and Interrogation (published by the International Association of Chiefs of Police in partnership with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice) (September 2012). Available here.

Laura H. Nirider, Investigative Strategies in Confession Cases, American Bar Association Litigation Section’s Children’s Rights Litigation Newsletter (Summer 2012, vol. 14, no. 4). Available here.

Joshua A. Tepfer & Laura H. Nirider, Adjudicated Juveniles and Collateral Relief, 64 Maine L. Rev. 554 (2012). Available here.

Laura H. Nirider, Joshua A. Tepfer, & Steven A. Drizin, Combating Contamination in Confession Cases: A Review of Brandon L. Garrett’s Convicting the Innocent, 79 Univ. Chi. L. Rev. 837 (2012). Available here.

Laura H. Nirider, Opinion Editorial: Keep Kids Out of Adult Criminal Court, Chicago Tribune, December 23, 2011.

Laura H. Nirider & Joshua A. Tepfer, Juvenile Interviewing Techniques, International Association of Chiefs of Police Training Key #652 (2011). Available here.

Joshua A. Tepfer, Laura H. Nirider, & Lynda M. Tricarico, Arresting Development: Convictions of Innocent Youth, 62 Rutg. L. Rev. 891 (2010). Available here.

COURSES TAUGHT

Clinical Practice: Wrongful Convictions and Juvenile Justice, Northwestern University School of Law, with Steven Drizin (listed professor from 2013-present; co-taught this course as a Fellow with Steven Drizin and Joshua Tepfer from 2009-2013)

SELECTED TALKS

Litigating Juvenile Confessions (Keynote speaker, April 2021) National Juvenile Defender Center Northeast Annual Training (virtual)

Resilience (April 2021) Guest speaker at a New Zealand prison, facilitated by tech startup Take2 (virtual)

Seminario Condenas Erroneas (Co-keynote speaker, February 2021) South American law conference hosted by La Asociacion de Pensamiento Penal de Chile (virtual)

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Inspiring Global Litigators (Keynote speaker, October 2020) Global conference hosted by International Bridges to Justice (virtual)

False Confessions and Wrongful Convictions (Keynote, November 2020) European Innocence Network Annual Conference (virtual)

Big Ideas in Small Cases (Keynote, June 2020) Arkansas Bar Association Criminal Section (virtual)

Litigating False Confession Cases (December 2019) Kane County Public Defenders’ Annual Conference (Chicago, Illinois)

A Global View of Confessions and Interrogations (Co-Keynote Speaker, Nov. 2019) El Centro de Estudios Sociojurídicos Latinoamericanos’ International Criminal Law Conference (Bogotá, Colombia)

Law Enforcement Solutions for the Problem of False Confessions (October 2019) Illinois Homicide Investigators’ Association Conference (Chicago, Illinois)

Policies that Prevent Wrongful Convictions: A National Overview (June 2019) Young Professionals Organization Special Meeting (Chicago, Illinois)

Telling Stories of False Confession (February 2019) Planner & speaker for NACDL False Confession Day Conference (Phoenix, AZ)

The Development of Voluntariness Law (February 2019) Panelist at Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology symposium on voluntariness (Chicago, IL)

False Confessions: A Conversation with Brendan Dassey’s Lawyers (December 2018 through August 2019) Public speaking tour in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, and Denmark focused on false confessions (40 stops)

40 Years of Chipping Away at the Glass Ceiling (Keynote address, September 2018) North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys 40th Anniversary Gala (Charlotte, NC)

Interrogation Techniques and the Impact on Vulnerable Populations: Does the System Promote Wrongful Convictions? (August 2018) Center for American and International Law (Plano, TX)

A True Story of a False Confession (May 2018) Federal Defender Association Annual Training Program (Minneapolis, MN)

Police Interrogations and False Confessions (April 2018)

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Joint Conference of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Public Defenders Association of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, PA)

Promises of Leniency and False Confessions (Keynote address, April 2018) Elite Training Day, International Association of Interviewers (Chicago, IL)

Clinical Legal Education and the Making a Murderer Moment (April 2018) American Association of Law Schools’ Clinical Conference (Chicago, IL)

A True Story of a False Confession (March 2018) Duke University School of Law (Durham, NC)

The Case for Brendan Dassey: Teaching Innovation Through Clinical Education (March 2018) University of Pennsylvania School of Law (Philadelphia, PA)

Confession Law in Sex Abuse Cases (Keynote speaker, November 2017) National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Annual Sex Crimes Conference (Las Vegas, NV)

The Confession Tapes: An Inside Look at False Confessions (Panelist, November 2017) Kirkland & Ellis LLP Lecture Featuring Director of The Confession Tapes (Chicago, IL)

Freeing David McCallum (Moderator, October 2017) Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Panel Discussion (Chicago, IL)

Brendan Dassey: A True Story of False Confession (Keynote speaker, August 2017) Minnesota Criminal Justice Institute Annual Conference (Minneapolis, MN)

Confession Analysis: Breaking Down the Confession of Elias V. (August 2017) Minnesota Criminal Justice Institute’s Annual Conference (Minneapolis, MN)

Litigating False and Coerced Confession Cases After Brendan Dassey (June 2017) National Forensics College Annual Conference (New York, NY)

A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (Keynote speaker, April 2017) Colorado Public Defender’s Symposium on the Fiftieth Anniversary of In re Gault (Denver, Colorado)

Working with the Media in Innocence Cases: Ethical & Strategic Considerations (March 2017) Innocence Network Annual Conference (San Diego, CA)

Litigating False Confession Cases: Time-Tested and Innovative Approaches to the Use of Expert Testimony (March 2017) Innocence Network Annual Conference (San Diego, CA)

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Making a Murderer: The Case of Brendan Dassey (Plenary address, March 2017) American Psychological Association Law Section Annual Conference (Seattle, WA)

Of Gault and Dassey: The Guiding Hand of Counsel in the Twenty-First Century (Plenary address, February 2017) National Institute of Trial Advocacy Midwest Training Program (Chicago, IL)

Miranda & Juvenile Justice (February 2017) American Bar Association’s Summit on Public Defense (Miami, FL)

A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (December 2016) Minnesota County Attorneys’ Association Annual Conference (Minneapolis, MN)

A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (Keynote address, December 2016) Moon Lecture Series (Sacramento, CA)

Women Wildcats in the Workplace (October 2016) Association of Northwestern University Women (Evanston, IL)

50 Years After Miranda & 5 Years After JDB: Where Are We Now and Where Do We Want to Be? (Plenary address, October 2016) National Juvenile Defender Center’s Annual Summit (Atlanta, GA)

From the Classroom to the Interrogation Room: Police Interrogations at School (October 2016) National Juvenile Defender Center’s Annual Summit (Atlanta, GA)

A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (October 2016) Minnesota Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Annual Conference (Minneapolis, MN)

A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (October 2016) McDermott, Will, & Emery globally-streamed CLE event (Chicago, IL)

False Confessions, Innocence Work, and Legal Education (Keynote address, September 2016) University of Baltimore School of Law Clinical Launch (Baltimore, MD)

General Remarks on False Confessions and Innocence Work (Keynote address, September 2016) Innocence Project of Minnesota Annual Gala (Minneapolis, MN)

A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (September 2016) Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Minneapolis Alumni Club (Minneapolis,

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Interrogations and Confessions in the Private Sector (Keynote address, July 2016) Restaurant Loss Prevention & Security Association Annual Conference (San Antonio, TX)

Cutting-Edge Motion Practice: Litigating Reliability (June 2016) National Forensic College Annual Conference (New York, MN)

A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (June 2016) Ramsey County Public Defenders Annual Conference (St. Paul, MN)

Interrogations and Confessions in the Private Sector (June 2016) Restaurant Loss Prevention & Security Association Regional Conference (Chicago, IL)

Making a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (Keynote address, April 2016) Tulsa County Bar Association’s Law Day Celebration (Tulsa, OK)

A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (April 2016) Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Alumni Club (Chicago, IL)

A True Story of a False Confession: The Brendan Dassey Case (February 2016) St. Thomas University School of Law (Minneapolis, MN)

Police Interrogations, False Confessions, and the Robert Davis Case (November 2014) Virginia Bar Association’s Capital Defense Workshop (Richmond, VA)

Comparative Justice: An Introduction to Chinese and American Wrongful Convictions (July 2014) The Twenty-First Century Institute (Chicago, IL)

Introduction to Police Interrogations and False Confessions (June 2014) Kentucky Public Defender Association Annual Conference (Erlanger, KY)

Working with a Police Interrogations and False Confessions Expert (June 2014) Kentucky Public Defender Association Annual Conference (Erlanger, KY)

Police Interrogations, False Confessions, and the Robert Davis Case (May 2014) University of Richmond (Richmond, VA)

Litigating a False Confession Case (May 2014) University of Richmond (Richmond, VA)

The Conscious Curriculum: Deliberately Designed Collaborative Courses to Further Law Students’ Mastery of Core Lawyering Traits (April 2014) American Association of Law Schools’ Clinical Section Conference (Chicago, IL)

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Un-Smelling the Skunk: Litigating a False Confession Case Post-Conviction (April 2014) Joint National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys-Innocence Network Conference (Portland, OR)

Women and False Confessions (March 2014) The Center on Wrongful Convictions’ Women’s Project (Chicago, IL)

Police Interrogations, False Confessions, and the Robert Davis Case (January 2014) Washington & Lee School of Law Symposium (Lexington, VA)

Preparing to Fight a False Confession at Trial (Panelist, January 2014) Washington & Lee School of Law Symposium (Lexington, VA)

Introduction to Juvenile Interrogations and Confessions (November 2013) Roosevelt University (Chicago, IL)

A New Juvenile Jurisprudence: Interrogations and Beyond (October 2013) Arkansas Public Defenders Association (Little Rock, AR)

Juvenile Interrogations and Confessions (October 2013) Arkansas Public Defenders Association (Little Rock, AR)

Interrogating Juveniles: A Practical Guide (February 2013) Chicago Police Academy (Chicago, IL)

Juvenile False Confessions & the West Memphis Three (June 2012) Illinois State Police Academy (Chicago, IL)

A New Approach to Confessions: Admissibility Predicated on Reliability? (March 2012) Innocence Network Annual Conference (Kansas City, KS)

Stealing Innocence: Juvenile Legal Issues and the Innocence Project (Jan. 2012) Cardozo Law School Journal of Law & Gender Symposium (New York City, NY)

J.D.B. and the Future of Custodial Interrogations (Oct. 2011) Illinois Public Defender Association Annual Conference (Springfield, IL)

Juvenile False Confessions (Aug. 2011) Barry University Juvenile Justice Center (Florida)

Innovative Ideas in Advocacy: Challenging Juvenile Confessions (June 2011) Illinois Juvenile Defender Network Annual Conference (Chicago, IL)

So Your Client Confessed: Now What? (April 2011)

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Illinois Public Defenders Association Annual Conference (Springfield, IL)

Out of the Mouths of Babes: False Confessions and the Wrongful Convictions of Youth (October 2009) Launch Event for the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth (Chicago, IL)

SELECTED MEDIA

Cohost and writer of the Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions podcast, produced by Lava Media (ranked in the top three national podcasts on the U.S. Apple podcast charts in 2020 and named a Webby Award finalist in 2021)

Host of NowThis News video series on false confession cases (2020), which has been viewed online more than 10 million times

Producer, The Exonerated virtual theater experience (2021), hosted by Northwestern Theater and Jordan Donica

Interviewed on podcasts including The Jordan Harbinger Show, Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom, Undisclosed, A Life of Greatness, The Verdict: Law & Society, Auutralian True Crime, Podsongs, Heartland Podcast, Criminal Justice Natters, House of Mystery

Interviewed and featured extensively in Seasons One and Two of Making a Murderer, an Emmy-winning Netflix Global series addressing the case of client Brendan Dassey (2015 & 2018)

Interviewed and featured in West of Memphis, a BAFTA-nominated documentary about the West Memphis Three (2012)

Regularly interviewed and quoted by international, national, and local media across a variety of platforms. Representative media exposure includes the New York Times, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Sunrise (Australian national morning program), TVNZ Breakfast (New Zealand national morning program), Dateline NBC, ABC 20/20, The Takeaway, Nightline, Radio New Zealand, Raidió Teilifis Éireann (Ireland), Forbes, Rolling Stone, The Guardian (UK), The New Yorker, Esquire, Vogue, WNYC, Illinois Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, and the Chicago Tribune.

SELECTED EXPERT AND POLICY CONSULTATIONS

Consultant for Illinois S.B. 2122, the first law in the United States that bans police deception during interrogation of juveniles

Consultant for Oregon S.B. 417, which bans police deception during interrogation of juveniles

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Consultant for U.S. Department of Justice regarding Baltimore Police Department consent decree (2019-2021)

Peer reviewer concerning interrogation and confession psychological scholarship (solicited), Law and Human Behavior (2017)

Peer reviewer/referee concerning interrogation and confession legal scholarship (solicited), Yale Law Journal (2014)

Consultant for Illinois S.B. 2995, which permits inmates who pled guilty to request post- conviction forensic testing (enacted into law in 2014)

False confessions consultant, People v. Randy Williams, 12-CR-00070 (Kentucky 2013)

Expert witness on false confessions, In the Interest of T.D., 10-J-00111-003 & 004 (Kentucky 2013)

Consultant in support of Arkansas Video Interrogation Project re: Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 4.7, recommending that all custodial interrogations be electronically recorded (Arkansas 2012)

Expert witness on juvenile interrogations and confessions in support of the executive clemency petition of Robert Paul Davis (Virginia 2012). Clemency granted December 2015.

Consultant in support of Illinois H.B. 85, which proposed limiting the admissibility of confessions from juveniles (2011)

RECOGNITION

Recipient, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law’s Dawn Clark Netsch Public Service Award (2017)

Gala Honoree, Young Women in Law (Toronto, Canada) (2017)

Recipient, National Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth’s Healing & Hope Award (2016)

Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s Distinguished Brief Award 2013 Amicus curiae brief on behalf of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth and Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan in People v. Kadeem White (Michigan Supreme Court 2013)

National Law Journal’s “Brief of the Week” (Feb. 9, 2011) Amicus curiae brief on behalf of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, J.D.B. v. North Carolina (U.S. Supreme Court 2011)

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National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of “outstanding service” in Echols v. State (2010)

SERVICE

Advisory Board Member, Minnesota Conviction Review Unit (2021; appointed by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison)

Public Ambassador for Take2 (startup global NGO focusing on decarceration and re-entry) (2020-present)

Member, National Amicus Committee, Innocence Network (2020-present)

Advisory Board Member, Strategies for Youth (national juvenile justice organization) (2019-present)

Advisory Board Member, True Memories and Other Falsehoods: A Documentary Feature (Deborah Tolchinsky/Kartemquin Films) (2018-present)

Member, One Book, One Northwestern campus-wide reading and engagement program (2020-21)

Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (elected by faculty to two-year term spanning 2018-2020)

Member, Clinic Strategic Planning Committee, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (2019)

Faculty Advisor, Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology Symposium on Voluntariness, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (2018-19)

Member, Jane Raley Teaching Excellence and Professional Development Committee, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (2017-2020)

Faculty Problem Advisor and Judge, Julius Miner Moot Court Competition, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (2017-18)

Member, Advanced Juvenile Interview Interrogation Techniques Advisory Board, International Association of Chiefs of Police (2012)

EDUCATION

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW (Chicago, IL) J.D. magna cum laude Associate Editor, Northwestern University Law Review

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Member, Order of the Coif

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, IL) Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Political Science

BAR ADMISSIONS

United States Supreme Court United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Illinois Supreme Court

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