Susan Bandes, Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law will speak on “Repellant Crimes and Rational Deliberation: Emotion and the Death Penalty” at a Faculty Forum on September 14, 2005.
Susan Bandes is widely known as a scholar in the areas of federal jurisdiction, criminal procedure and civil rights. Her legal career began in 1976 at the Illinois Office of the State Appellate Defender. In 1980, she became staff counsel for Illinois A.C.L.U., where she litigated a broad spectrum of civil rights cases. Since 1984, when Professor Bandes joined the faculty of DePaul Law School, she has taught courses on criminal procedure, the federal courts, civil rights, and law and literature. Her scholarship focuses largely on the issue of governmental accountability, with a more recent focus on the role of emotion in law, and includes articles in, among others, the Stanford, University of Chicago, Yale, and Michigan law reviews.
Her book on the role of emotion in law, entitled The Passions of Law, was published by the NYU Press in January 2000, and released in paperback in 2001. Her recent pro bono activities include acting as co-reporter for the Constitution Project’s bipartisan Death Penalty Initiative, which produced the report “Mandatory Justice: Eighteen Reforms to the Death Penalty,” and serving on the advisory board to the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice’s study of the criminal justice system in Cook County, IL.
Professor Bandes earned a B.A. in 1973 from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a J.D. in 1976 from the University of Michigan.
