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.[1] At Northwestern, Drizin teaches courses on Wrongful Convictions and Juvenile Justice.[2] He has written extensively on the topics of police interrogations and false confessions.[3] 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.[4]