CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

Yale, B.A., 1966
University of Illinois, J.D., 1969
University of Chicago, Graduate Student at Large, 1999 - present

Positions Held

Faculty member, City Colleges of Chicago, 1969 to the present
Director, Unicorn Foundation, a charity, 1989 to present (currently serving as President)
50th President of the Illinois Academy of Criminology, 1999-2001

Presentations

(The following were panel discussions on various aspects of Criminal Justice Reform that have been archived through the Illinois Academy of Criminology)

University of Chicago School of Law, Death Penalty Reform
Kent College of Law, Videotaping Interrogations and Confessions
DePaul University, What Makes a Good Judge?
John Marshall Law School, What Makes a Good Prosecutor?
Northwestern University Medical School, The Mentally Ill Offender

Appeared before the Illinois Supreme Court Special Committee on Capital Litigation and proposed that Illinois adopt a new rule for the conduct of prosecutors based on the ABA standard that: “it is the duty of the prosecutor to do justice, not merely to convict”. The proposal was adopted by the full court and became law effective March, 2001.

Great Books

In October, 1994, appeared on a Faculty Council Debate, televised by WYCC, the City College of Chicago channel, proposed and defended the position that the City Colleges teach the Great Books.

In 1996, initiated a non-credit Great Books programs at Wright College, Scholars at Wright, using professors and scholars to teach a great book to local advanced placement high school students and members of the community.

Scholars at Wright has taught Great Books to growing numbers of students, and, in 1997, received a mini-grant for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Illinois Humanities Council and the Illinois General Assembly.