Steven Drizin is a Clinical Professor of Law at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, where he has been on the faculty since 1991.
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At Northwestern, Drizin teaches courses on Wrongful Convictions and Juvenile Justice.
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Steven Drizin has written extensively on the topics of police interrogations and false confessions.
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At Northwestern, Steven Drizin served as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology from 1985 to 1986.
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In 1988, Steven Drizin left Sachnoff to clerk for Judge Ilana Rovner, who at that point in her career was on the bench at the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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In 1991, Steven Drizin returned to his alma mater to become a supervising attorney at the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern Law's Bluhm Legal Clinic.
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From 2013 to 2017, Steven Drizin served as the Assistant Dean of the Bluhm Legal Clinic.
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In 2004, Drizin co-authored an amicus brief that played a role in the United States Supreme Court's landmark decision Roper v Simmons, which abolished the juvenile death penalty.
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In 2008, Steven Drizin co-founded the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, the nation's first innocence project dedicated to the representation and advocacy of wrongfully convicted children and adolescents.
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Steven Drizin has authored a catalogue of law review articles, books chapters, psychological journal articles, book reviews, position papers, and newspaper and magazine articles, essays, and Op-eds for both national and international publications.