Samuel H. Pillsbury
Professor of Law and J. Howard Ziemann Fellow
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-1093
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: samuel.pillsbury@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
AB with honors, Harvard College
JD, University of Southern California, Order of the Coif
Following work as a newspaper reporter covering criminal justice in Florida, Sam Pillsbury attended the USC Law Center where he received awards for the highest cumulative grade point average in his class and best student note in the law review. On graduation he served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. and then was an Assistant United States Attorney, Criminal Division in Los Angeles. He joined the Loyola faculty in 1986. In 2006 he received a certificate for diaconal studies at the Episcopal Theological School at Claremont and was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church.
Chair, Criminal Justice Section of the American Assosiation of Law Schools, 1997-98.
"A New Declaration: Challenging American Ideas of Rights, Freedom, and Victory," address given in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at Loyola Law Schoo, Los Angeles, January 17, 2008.
"Reasons, not Reasonableness: Saving Provocation From Abuse," talk given at Criminal Justice, Section, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, New York City, January 6, 2008.
"California's Three Str5inkes Law: A Problem in Democracy, Law and Emotion," talk given to the Criminal Law Society, University of Ottawa Law School, Canada, Nov. 2007.
"Changing Perspectives: Recognizing motion in Law," talk given to the Department of Justice, Ottawa, Canada, Nov. 2007.
"In a Strong Voice," program on public speaking offered for youth incarcerated in Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall, Sylmar, California, summer 2007.
"Valuing the Spoken Word: Public Speaking for Lawyers," 34 Capital Univ. L. Rev. 517 (2006)
"Learning From Journalism," 3 Oh. St. J. Crim. L. 543 (2006) (Reviewing Steve Bogira, Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse)
"Speaking the Language of Evil," in Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Inequity (M. Breen ed. Rodopi 2005)
Commentary/Review, "A Different Kind of Courage, A Different Kind of Peace," 1 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 357 (2003)
"A Different Kind of Courage, A Different Kind of Peace," Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law (2003)
"Crimes Against the Heart: Recognizing the Wrongs of Forced Sex," 35 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 845 (2002)
Harlan, Holmes and the Passions of Justice, in "The Passions of Law" (S. Bandes ed. NYU 2000) (paper ed. 2001)
"Judging Evil: Rethinking the Laws of Murder and Manslaughter" (NYU 1998) (paper ed. 2000)
Mission to California (Perspective Publishing, 2003)
The Invasion of Planet Wampetter (Perspective Publishing, 1995)
Conviction, a novel (Walker, 1992)
Criminal Law, American Legal History Survey, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Practice, Public Speaking for Lawyers