Steven Drizin
Steven Drizin | |
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| Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education | Haverford College (BA) Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law (JD) |
| Occupations | Co-founder, Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth;
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| Known for | scholarship on police interrogations and false confessions |
| Website | cwcy.org |
Steven A. Drizin is an American lawyer and academic. He is a Clinical Professor of Law at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, where he has been on the faculty since 1991. At Northwestern, Drizin teaches courses on Wrongful Convictions and Juvenile Justice. He has written extensively on the topics of police interrogations and false confessions. Among the general public, Drizin is known for his ongoing representation of Brendan Dassey, one of the protagonists in the Netflix documentary series, Making a Murderer.