Commentary

Commentary: To cure corruption, the Chicago City Council should ‘remember the ladies’
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An analysis of Chicago aldermanic corruption cases points to one possible solution: Elect more women.
Juliet Sorensen (Executive Director) has been a Clinical Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law since 2010, where she teaches in the areas of public corruption, health as a human right, and international criminal law. From 2017 to 2019, she served as the Director of the Bluhm Legal Clinic and Associate Dean for Clinical Education. Juliet serves on the American Bar Association's Global Anti-Corruption Task Force and its Health and Human Rights Advisory Board. Juliet is the co-author of Public Corruption and the Law: Cases and Materials (West Academic 2017). Prior to joining the faculty of Northwestern, Juliet was an Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago for seven years, focusing on fraud and public corruption. Juliet was a maternal and child health volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in Morocco from 1995 to 1997.
An analysis of Chicago aldermanic corruption cases points to one possible solution: Elect more women.
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