Leigh Buchanan Bienen is a writer, advocate, and teacher whose areas of expertise include capital punishment, sex crimes, and legal reform. She has taught law at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law, and Northwestern University School of Law.

She has three daughters and lives in Chicago with her husband, Henry Bienen, president emeritus of Northwestern University.

Leigh Buchanan Bienen: Works collects her works of fiction and non-fiction, websites and videos.