James S. Liebman is a Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Since joining the Columbia Law Faculty in 1985, Professor Liebman has written extensively on capital punishment and is the senior author of the leading American treatise and a number of articles on habeas corpus law. He has argued four major capital and habeas corpus appeals in the United States Supreme Court. He is the lead author of A Broken System, Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995 and A Broken System, Part II, Why There Is So Much Error in Capital Cases and What Can Be Done About It.

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