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Stephanos Bibas: Third Circuit Nomination

Stephanos Bibas

Stephanos Bibas

The White House recently announced that the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Stephanos Bibas will be nominated by President Donald Trump to join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Mr. Bibas is a professor of law and criminology and director of Penn Law’s Supreme Court Clinic.

Professor Bibas is a former federal prosecutor and noted scholar of criminal procedure. He has argued six times in front of the Supreme Court. He is author of the books The Machinery of Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Rebooting Justice: More Technology, Fewer Lawyers, and the Future of Law (with Benjamin H. Barton, Encounter Books, 2017).

“We are tremendously proud that Stephanos Bibas has been nominated to the Third Circuit,” said Ted Ruger, dean of Penn Law and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law. “Professor Bibas possesses a brilliant legal mind, and is one of our most exceptional teachers and scholars. In the course of his career, he has produced incisive scholarship, advocated outstandingly for the clients of the Supreme Court Clinic, and been a mentor to many Penn Law students. His intellect, experience and character make him an exceptional choice for the federal bench.”

“I am deeply honored to have been nominated,” Bibas said. “I’ve had the great good fortune to learn from outstanding jurists, including Judge Higginbotham and Justice Kennedy, and have learned a tremendous amount from my colleagues and students at Penn Law. Penn has supported me in all that I’ve done: teaching generations of students, writing scholarship, litigating before the Supreme Court and preventing wrongful convictions through the work of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice.”

Prior to joining Penn Law, Bibas was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He received a BA from Columbia University in 1989 at the age of 19, a BA from the University of Oxford in 1991, a JD from Yale Law School in 1994 and an honorary MA from Oxford in 1998. Following his graduation from Yale Law, Bibas served as a law clerk to Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court. 

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