1. Stephanos Bibas was born on June 18,1969 and is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2017 as a United States circuit judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
23 Facts About Stephanos Bibas
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Stephanos Bibas is a noted scholar of criminal procedure with expertise in criminal charging, plea bargaining, and sentencing.
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Stephanos Bibas studied the role of substantive goals such as remorse and apology in criminal procedure.
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Stephanos Bibas has been praised for the quality of his legal writing.
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Stephanos Bibas was born in New York City and spent his summers growing up working for his father, a Greek immigrant who survived the occupation of Greece during World War II, in his family's restaurants.
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Stephanos Bibas graduated high school at the age of 15 and entered Columbia University.
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At Columbia, Stephanos Bibas was a member of the Philolexian Society and participated in Parliamentary debate.
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Stephanos Bibas then studied jurisprudence at University College, Oxford, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1991.
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Stephanos Bibas joined the moot court team and won awards for the best oralist and best team, and he was a symposium editor of the Yale Law Journal.
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From 1994 to 1995, Stephanos Bibas was a law clerk for judge Patrick Higginbotham of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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Stephanos Bibas successfully prosecuted Alastair Duncan, the world's leading expert in Tiffany stained glass, for hiring a grave robber to steal Tiffany windows from cemeteries.
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Stephanos Bibas was a research fellow at Yale Law from 2000 to 2001, then became a professor at the University of Iowa College of Law.
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In 2006, Stephanos Bibas moved to the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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Stephanos Bibas received the Robert A Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2008.
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Stephanos Bibas is the 15th-most-cited law professor by the US Supreme Court, US Courts of Appeals, and state high courts as well as the 5th-most-cited professor of criminal law and procedure by law professors.
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Stephanos Bibas directed Penn Law's Supreme Court clinic, for which he litigated a wide range of appellate cases under consideration by the United States Supreme Court.
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On June 19,2017, President Donald Trump nominated Stephanos Bibas to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, to fill the seat vacated by Judge Midge Rendell, who assumed senior status on July 1,2015.
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Stephanos Bibas received his judicial commission on November 20,2017.
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Judge Stephanos Bibas has sat by designation as a trial judge in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, the District of New Jersey, and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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Stephanos Bibas has authored over one hundred opinions for the Third Circuit on a wide range of subjects, including the following notable opinions:.
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Judge Stephanos Bibas sits by designation routinely in the District of Delaware and occasionally in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and District of New Jersey.
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Stephanos Bibas was a member of the Federalist Society from 1991 to 2017.
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Stephanos Bibas has served as a deacon of the Russian Orthodox Church in Eastern America since 2015.