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LEIGH B. BIENEN

2024

Websites

2022

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Life and a Life in the Theatre, TriQuarterly (Apr. 12, 2022).

2020

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Florence Kelley, 1890’s Reformer and Her Friends, TEDxNaperville (Sept. 8, 2020).

Working Papers

• 2003 Chicago Murders: 140 Death Eligible Murders in Cook County, Illinois in 2003, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 20-10 (2020).

2019

Articles

• Leigh Bienen Considers Adaptation in Chicago, WIT Journal (June 5, 2019).

2016

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Leigh B. Bienen is the director of the ILLINOIS JUDGES PROJECT.

2014

Books

• Florence Kelley, Factory Inspector In 1890s Chicago, and the Children (Open Books 2014).

2011

Articles

• Capital Punishment in Illinois in the Aftermath of the Ryan Commutations: Reforms, Economic Realities, and a New Saliency for Issues of Cost, 100 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 869 (2010).

2010

Books

• Murder and Its Consequences: Essays on Capital Punishment in America (Northwestern University Press 2010).

Working Papers

• Capital Punishment in Illinois in the Aftermath of the Ryan Commutations: Reforms, Economic Realities, and a New Saliency for Issues of Cost .

2008

Articles

• Anomalies: Ritual and Language in Lethal Injection Regulations, 35 Fordham Urban Law Journal 857-881 (2008).

• Not Wiser After 35 Years of Contemplating the Death Penalty, 42 Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 91 (2008) Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1022132.

2006

Articles

• The Record Keepers, 124 Triquarterly 9-44 (2006).

• Leigh B. Bienen is the guest editor for 124 TRIQUARTERLY which is entitled, "The Violence" (2006).

2003

Articles

• Learning From the Past, Living in the Present: Understanding Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930, 92 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 437 (2002) (Co-authored by: Brandon Rottinghaus).

• Afterword to "Lunatics and Anarchists: Political Homicide in Chicago", 92 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 805-807 (2002) (Co-authored by: Thomas J. O’Gorman).

2002

Articles

• Editorial-Physician Participation in Executions: Time to Eliminate Anonymity Provisions and Protest the Practice, 135 Annals of Internal Medicine 922-924 (November 20, 2001) (Co-authored by: L.L. Emanuel).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Seminar Task Force Report: Murder and Its Consequences (Fall 2002).

2001

Books

• The Left-handed Marriage (Ontario Review Press 2001) .

Articles

• Center for the Study of Disability Ethics Community Board Forum, Execution of the Mentally Disabled: A Discussion of Medical and Legal Perspectives: Introduction, 27 New England Journal on Criminal And Civil Confinement 189-194 (2001) .

1999

Articles

• Technician, 104 Triquarterly 192-271 (Winter, 1999).

• What We Write About When We Write About the Death Penalty--A Review of Recent Books and Literature on Capital Punishment, 89 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 751-770 (1999).

• The Quality of Justice in Capital Cases: Illinois as a Case Study, 61 Law and Contemporary Problems 193-217 (1998) .

• Defining Incest, 92 Northwestern University Law Review 1501 (1998).

1998

Books

• Crimes of The Century (Northeastern University Press 1998) (Co-authored by: Gilbert Geis).