Charles Whitebread

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Charles H. Whitebread is the George T. Pfleger Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law School.

Whitebread was born in Montgomery County, Maryland. He attended Princeton University (1965), where he was an honors graduate, and Yale Law School (1968), where he an editor for the Yale Law Journal. After briefly working at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, he became a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he taught for 13 years, and then moved to the University of Southern California Law School, where he teaches to this day.

Whitebread is also a lecturer in criminal law and procedure for BarBri. He is very popular with BarBri students, who have started Facebook groups in appreciation of his unique humor style.

Whitebread is a prolific legal writer, who has published a dozen books and over 30 law review articles, which includes Criminal Procedure, Children in the Legal System, and The Eight Secrets of Top Exam Performance in Law School.

Most recently, Professor Whitebread gave the keynote speech at the American Psychology and Law Society (APLS) Annual Conference in Jacksonville, Florida on March 6, 2008.