Stephen Bright

Stephen Bright
Bright lectures at the David A. Clarke School of Law in November 2017
Personal details
Born	1948 (age 75–76) Boyle County, Kentucky, U.S.
Education	University of Kentucky (BA, JD)

Stephen B. Bright (born 1948) is an American lawyer known for representing people facing the death penalty, advocating for the right to counsel for poor people accused of crimes, and challenging inhumane practices and conditions in prisons and jails.^[1] He has taught at Yale Law School since 1993 and has been teaching at the Georgetown Law Center since 2017 (it is his third visit to Georgetown). In 2016, he ended almost 35 years at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, first as director from 1982 to 2005, and then as president and senior counsel from 2006 to 2016.^{[citation needed]}