Ellen Podgor

Ellen Podgor[1] is an expert on white-collar crime and runs a white collar crime blog,[2] which has been quoted by such blogs as the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog and the Daily Kos [3]

A professor at Stetson University College of Law, Podgor was named the Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Professor in 2011, has been quoted in The New York Times,[4][5] Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and other publications on big news stories such as Bernie Madoff and Enron.

She has co-authored books and articles on white collar crime, criminal law and international criminal law, and testified last year before a House Judiciary Committee subcommittee on overcriminalization. [6] She has written numerous law journal articles, including one in The Yale Law Journal Online [7] about what she saw as harsh punishments of white collar criminals. She is the co-author with federal judge Paul D. Borman and Professors Peter Henning and Jerold Israel of the casebook White Collar Crime: Law and Practice.[8]

She and Professor Roger Clark, of Rutgers–Camden, led an effort to have the American Law Institute come out in opposition of the death penalty [9] That motion did not succeed, but led to discussion and debate that two years later, resulted in the organization dropping mention of the death penalty from its Model Penal Code.[10]

Podgor started her law career as a prosecutor, but later became a defense attorney and is active in the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Under Podgor's leadership, Stetson and NACDL have created the White Collar Criminal Defense College,[11] which they bill as a boot-camp for defense attorneys to better hone their advocacy skills. Podgor won the NACDL's top award, the Robert C. Heeney Memorial Award,in August 2010.[12]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.law.stetson.edu/faculty/podgor-ellen-s/
  2. ↑ http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/whitecollarcrime_blog/
  3. ↑ "Habeas Corpus, writs written [w]orsen; taking wrong turn on basic rights". Retrieved January 10, 2012.
  4. ↑ Mitchell, Dan (September 24, 2005). "Doing Executive Time". The New York Times. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
  5. ↑ Stelter, Brian (July 13, 2011). "News Corp. Newspapers May Face U.S. Inquiry". The New York Times. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
  6. ↑ "House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security" (PDF). Retrieved January 6, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Throwing Away the Key". Retrieved January 10, 2012.
  8. ↑ "Judge Paul D. Borman". United States District Court -- Eastern Michigan District.
  9. ↑ "Draft Model Penal Code" (PDF). Retrieved January 10, 2012.
  10. ↑ "No more Model Code on capital punishment". Retrieved January 10, 2012.
  11. ↑ http://www.nacdl.org/LegalEducation.aspx?id=21889
  12. ↑ "Professor Ellen S. Podgor Receives Criminal Defense Bar’s Top Honor". Retrieved January 10, 2012.
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