Alison Siegler
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: (773) 834-1680
email: alisonsiegler@uchicago.edu

EDUCATION

Georgetown University Law Center
L.L.M. in Advocacy, May 2006

Yale Law School
J.D., 1998
Yale Law Journal, Senior Editor
Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, Executive Editor
Coker Fellow: Teaching assistant and legal writing instructor for Professor Peter Schuck

Yale University
B.A. in Humanities, magna cum laude, 1995
Honors in the selective Humanities Major for distinguished classwork and thesis

Yale in London Program, London, England
Spring 1994
Studied at Yale’s Paul Mellon Center for British Art

EXPERIENCE

The University of Chicago Law School
Assistant Clinical Professor and Director of the Federal Criminal Justice Project, 2008-Present
Lecturer in Law, Fall 2007
   Seminar: “Federal Sentencing: Balancing Judicial and Prosecutorial Discretion”

Federal Defender Program, Chicago, IL
Staff Attorney, 2002-2008
Represented indigent clients charged with federal crimes in the federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Represented clients at every stage of the criminal process, including serving as lead counsel in federal jury trials, Seventh Circuit appeals, and petitions for writs of certiorari to the Supreme Court.

DePaul University College of Law
Lecturer, 2005, 2006

Georgetown University Law CenterE. Barrett Prettyman Fellow, Georgetown Criminal Justice Clinic, 2000-2002
Represented indigent clients charged with felonies and misdemeanors in D.C. Superior Court; taught and supervised third-year law students representing misdemeanor clients in court; taught weekly trial practice and skills classes.

Judge Robert W. Gettleman, U.S. District Court, N.D. Ill.
Law Clerk, 1998-2000

Public Defender Service, Washington, DC
Law Clerk, Summer 1998

Capital Defender Office, New York, NY
Law Clerk, Summer 1997

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Chicago, IL
Summer Associate, Summer 1997

New Haven Legal Assistance Assoc., Special Public Defender, New Haven, CT
Extern, Spring 1997

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Admitted to practice in Illinois & the District of Columbia
Member, Seventh Circuit Bar
Member, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Bar
Member, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar
Member, Federal Bar Association
Member, American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Section