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

PUBLICATIONS

Chapter Editor, Defending A Federal Criminal Case: 2009 Edition (upcoming 2009).

"Appendix: Sample Cross Examination," in Terence F. MacCarthy, MacCarthy on Cross Examination (2008).

"The Patriot Act’s Erosion of Constitutional Rights," 32 Litigation 18 (Winter 2006).

"Ostriches Are Not Merely Careless Birds: Fighting the Willful Blindness Instruction at Trial," The Liberty Legend 6 (National Association of Federal Defenders publication 2004).

Research Assistant: Conducted research for William J. Stuntz, "The Uneasy Relationship Between Criminal Procedure and Criminal Justice," 107 Yale Law Journal. 1 (1997).

PRESENTATIONS AND TRAINING CONFERENCES

"Having the Gall: Winning Below Guideline Sentences," as faculty at seminar,
"Both Sides Now: Federal Criminal Trial Practice from A-Z," Federal Bar Association, Chicago, IL (April 2008).

"Having the Gall: Using 3553(a) to Win Below Guideline Sentences," National Sentencing Advocacy Workshop, Chicago, IL (March 2008) (Training Workshop for criminal defense attorneys, hosted by the Defender Services Training Branch of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts).

"Rita Rules,"Annual Criminal Justice Act Seminar, Chicago, IL (November 2007) (conference hosted by the Federal Defender Program for the Northern
District of Illinois and the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers)

National Orientation Seminar for Assistant Federal Defenders, Santa Fe, NM November 2007
Presented lecture, Supervised Release Revocations and Post-Conviction Representation and served as faculty at conference hosted by the Federal Judicial Center.

National Seminar for Federal Defenders, Miami, FL May 2007
Presented lecture, Slashing Sentences With the 3553(a) Sword, as faculty at annual national training
conference for advanced federal defenders hosted by the Federal Judicial Center.

Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference, Milwaukee, WI May 2007
Presented as member of panel, Privacy, Evidence Gathering and the Fourth Amendment in the
Modern-Technological Age, moderated by Seventh Circuit Judge William J. Bauer.

National Sentencing Advocacy Workshop, Phoenix, AZ March 2007
Presented lecture, How to Get a Below-Guideline Sentence in the Post-Booker World, and conducted
sentencing training sessions as faculty at annual Training Workshop for criminal defense attorneys,
hosted by the Defender Services Training Branch of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

National Orientation Seminar for Assistant Federal Defenders, Santa Fe, NM November 2006
Presented lecture, Supervised Release Revocations and Post-Conviction Representation, facilitated
sentencing workshop, and served as faculty at conference hosted by the Federal Judicial Center.

Annual Criminal Justice Act Seminar, Chicago, IL, November 2006
• Presented lecture, Why Not the Guidelines? Let Me Count the Ways, at conference hosted by the Federal Defender Program for the Northern District of Illinois.

Post-Booker Sentencing and Mitigation Strategies Seminar, Chicago, IL May 2006
• Presented lecture, Wielding the 3553(a) Sword: Post-Booker Sentencing Strategies, at conference hosted by the Federal Defender Program for the Northern District of Illinois.

"Wielding the 3553(a) Sword: Post-Booker Sentencing Strategies," Federal Criminal Defense Training, Harrisburg, PA (March 2006) (conference hosted by the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Pennsylvania & the Charles F. Greevy, Jr. American Inn of Court).

"Wielding the 3553(a) Sword: Post-Booker Sentencing Strategies," National Sentencing Advocacy Workshop, Miami, FL (March 2006).
• conducted sentencing training sessions as faculty at Training Workshop for Criminal Justice Act Panel Attorneys.

National Orientation Seminar for Assistant Federal Defenders, Santa Fe, NM November 2005
• Presented lecture, Supervised Release Revocations and Post-Conviction Representation, and served as faculty at conference hosted by the Federal Judicial Center.

"Using 3553(a) as a Sword: Post-Booker Sentencing Strategies," Third Circuit Sentencing Advocacy Workshop, Philadelphia, PA (October 2005).
• conducted sentencing training sessions as faculty at Training Workshop for Criminal Justice Act Panel Attorneys, co-hosted by the Defender Services Training Branch of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts & the Federal Defender Offices of the Third Circuit.