Richard C. Dieter is the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, DC.

The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. The Center was founded in 1990 and prepares in-depth reports, issues press releases, conducts briefings for journalists, and serves as a resource to those working on this issue.

Mr. Dieter has dedicated his career to issues related to human rights and the death penalty. He has testified about the death penalty before numerous state legislatures and has prepared reports for the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights. He is a member of the Maryland, District of Columbia, and U.S. Supreme Court Bars. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University School of Law. Mr. Dieter is a New York City native. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Notre Dame and a masters degree from the Ohio State University. He graduated cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, where he was a Public Interest Law Scholar and editor of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics.

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Law students across the country are preparing for final exams of the spring term.  If you’re one of them and are preparing for an evidence exam, check out the Evidence module on Spindle Law. Peter Tillers, law professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, is creator and editor of this module, having added over 1,600 branches and 1,600 authorities, as well as a great deal of commentary on the subtleties of evidence law in the comments to those rules and authorities. While Professor Tillers’s section on Spindle Law lays out evidence rules and exceptions in a straightforward, intuitive way, his interest in evidence goes far beyond the rules themselves.

In June, Professor Tillers will be chairing an all-day workshop during the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL). The workshop is called Artificial Intelligence & Evidential Inference. Tillers said, “Panelists include many of the leading experts on legal reasoning, logic and practical reasoning in general, the law of evidence, and factual inference and proof.” (more…)

Robert O’Neil is the director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. He is a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he teaches constitutional law of free speech and of the press, and of church and state. O’Neil was the sixth president of the University of Virginia, from 1985 to 1990, and has served as president of the University of Wisconsin statewide system, vice president of Indiana University, and provost of the University of Cincinnati.

O’Neil clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. in 1962-63, after graduating from Harvard Law School. He then joined the law faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.

O’Neil is currently director of the Ford Foundation’s Difficult Dialogues program, chair of the American Association of University Professors’ Special Committee on Academic Freedom and National Security in Time of Crisis, serves as consultant to the Association of Governing Boards, and has been a trustee for the Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association (TIAA), WVPT Public Television, the Piedmont Council for the Arts, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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