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    Juliet Sorensen

    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.

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    Commentary

    Commentary: To cure corruption, the Chicago City Council should ‘remember the ladies’

    By Juliet Sorensen | March 30, 2022

    An analysis of Chicago aldermanic corruption cases points to one possible solution: Elect more women.

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    A lawsuit against Injustice Watch tried to upend First Amendment protections. It failed.

    By Juliet Sorensen | November 4, 2021

    The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to take the appeal of a Philadelphia police officer’s case, which sought to reverse the long-standing ‘actual malice’ doctrine in defamation cases against news organizations.

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    A decade past the death penalty in Illinois: An Injustice Watch video series

    Ten years ago Illinois abolished the death penalty. These people helped make it happen.

    By Juliet Sorensen | May 7, 2021

    Seven people who advocated for the end of capital punishment reflect on the movement that led Illinois to abolish the death penalty in 2011.

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    Cook County Jail election guide rejection harms voters and the free press

    By Juliet Sorensen | October 29, 2020

    County officials say the jail mailroom accidentally rejected Injustice Watch’s judicial election guide. But accidents violate the Constitution, too.

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    A Supreme Court justice’s legacy in jeopardy

    By Juliet Sorensen | July 17, 2019

    Justice John Paul Stevens, who died at 99, believed that government should be neutral. In 2019, the question is whether that model can still survive.

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