Rape II
Title: Rape II Year: 1977 Author: Leigh Bienen Publisher: Women’s Rights Law Reporter Issue: Volume 3, Issues 3 and 4, pp. 90-137 Description: This is the second of a special two-part survey of rape laws in the United States. Rape I, published in the Women’s Rights Law Reporter (December 1976), consisted of commentary on the legislative […]
Rape I
Title: Rape I Year: 1976 Author: Leigh Bienen Publisher: Women’s Rights Law Reporter Issue: Volume 3, pp. 45-57 Description: Work began in the fall of 1975. Research was started with the specific intention of designing a chart which would summarize the rapidly changing rape laws in every jurisdiction in the United States. The chart was to […]
Not Wiser After Thirty Five Years of Contemplating the Death Penalty
Title: Not Wiser After Thirty Five Years of Contemplating the Death Penalty Year: 2008 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Studies in Law, Politics and Society Issue: Volume 42, pp. 91-133 Description: Is the death penalty dying? This autobiographical essay offers observations on the application of capital punishment in three very different legal jurisdictions at three […]
Mistakes
Title: Mistakes Year: 1978 Author: Leigh Bienen Publisher: Philosophy & Public Affairs Issue: Volume 7, No. 3, pp. 224-245 Description: In response to Professor Curley’s interesting article on D.P.P. v. Morgan which appeared in a previous issue of Philosophy & Public Affairs, I shall discuss some recent developments concerning the mistake-of-fact defense in rape cases […]
Learning from the Past, Living in the Present: Understanding Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930
Title: Learning from the Past, Living in the Present: Understanding Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930 Year: 2002 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Issue: Volume 92, Issue 3/4, pp 437-554 Excerpt: The Chicago Historical Homicide Project at Northwestern University School of Law began with the discovery and recent availability of a […]
Helping Jurors Out: Post-Verdict Debriefing for Jurors in Emotionally Disturbing Trials
Title: Helping Jurors Out: Post-Verdict Debriefing for Jurors in Emotionally Disturbing Trials Year: 1993 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Indiana Law Journal Issue: Volume 68, Issue 4, Article 13, pp. 1333-1355 Description: Lawyers and judges sometimes forget that being a juror is a human experience on a continuum with other human experiences. For many it […]
Defining Incest
Title: Defining Incest Year: 1998 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Northwestern University Law Review Issue: Volume 92, No. 4, pp. 1501-1640 Description: This article examines the statutory formulations and interpretations of incest in American jurisdictions against the backdrop of the author’s experiences as an advocate and reporter on rape reform legislation in the late 1970s […]
Criminal Homicide in Western Nigeria 1966-1972
Title: Criminal Homicide in Western Nigeria 1966-1972 Year: 1974 Author: Leigh Bienen Publisher: Journal of African Law Issue: Volume 18, No. 1, pp. 57-78 Description: This research began as an attempt to add a codicil to the work on homicide done by Paul Bohannan in the 1950s. Although Bohannan looked at events in the colonial […]
Capital Punishment in Illinois in the Aftermath of the Ryan Commutations: Reforms, Economic Realities, and a New Saliency for Issues of Cost
Title: Capital Punishment in Illinois in the Aftermath of the Ryan Commutations: Reforms, Economic Realities, and a New Saliency for Issues of Cost Year: 2010 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Issue: Volume 100, Issue 4 (Fall), Article 2 Description: In 2000 when Governor George Ryan unilaterally imposed a statewide […]
Can the Death Penalty Be Administered Fairly—No
Title: Can the Death Penalty Be Administered Fairly—No Year: 1998 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Spectrum—The Council of State Governments Issue: Volume 71, No. 1 Description: Since 1976, 38 states have re-enacted capital punishment statutes, and the state supreme courts have upheld these statutes, But from coast to coast, the death penalty remains fundamentally unfair […]