Bryan Stevenson

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name = Bryan Stevenson

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fields = Capital Punishment Law and Litigation
workplaces = New York University School of Law
alma_mater = Harvard Law School
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Bryan A. Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a private, non-profit organization headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, and is a professor at New York University School of Law.

A graduate of Eastern College (now Eastern University), Harvard Law School, and the Harvard School of Government, he has won the American Bar Association's Wisdom Award for public service, the ACLU's National Medal of Liberty (1991), a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award, the Reebok Human Rights Award (1989), the Thurgood Marshall Medal of Justice (1993), the Gleitsman Foundation Citizen Activist Award (2000), the Olof Palme Prize (2000), and the National Association of Public Interest Lawyers named him the Public Interest Lawyer of the Year (1996). He has received honorary degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and Georgetown University Law School. In addition to directing the Equal Justice Initiative, Mr. Stevenson has been a visiting professor of law at the University of Michigan School of Law and lecturer at Harvard and Yale Law Schools.

References

*Walt Harrington, "How Can Anyone Do Anything Else?" The Washington Post Magazine (January 6, 1991)
*http://www.law.uidaho.edu/default.aspx?pid=65492
*http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week344/profile.html
*http://www.aclu-sc.org/News/Releases/2001/100355/
*http://www.eji.org