Susan Bandes


Susan Bandes is an American lawyer and the current Centennial Distinguished Professor Emeritus at DePaul University. Bandes is considered one of the 20 most cited law professors in criminal law and procedure.

Biography

Bandes graduated the University of Michigan Law School in 1976, worked at the Illinois Office of the State Appellate Defender, and then served as staff counsel at the Illinois ACLU, where she litigated a broad range of civil liberties issues and also drafted and lobbied for passage of the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. She joined the DePaul faculty in 1984, and was named Distinguished Research Professor in 2003 and Centennial Distinguished Professor in 2012. She took emeritus status in 2017. She has written more than 70 articles, and is among the most widely cited law professors in the field of criminal law and procedure. Her work appears in, among others, the Yale, Stanford, University of Chicago, Michigan and Southern California law reviews, as well as interdisciplinary journals like Law and Social Inquiry, the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, and the Law and Society Review. Her book, entitled The Passions of Law, published by NYU Press in 2000, is referred to as a "" and a "" of the emerging discipline of the study of law and emotion.
Bandes has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Northwestern Law School, a visiting scholar at NYU Law School and , a Fulbright Scholar at in Sweden, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of New South Wales.
Bandes is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of . She has long been active in the Law and Society Association, where she is the founder, with Jill Hunter and Jody Madeira, of the .

Selected publications

Books