Randolph N. Stone
Clinical Professor of Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-702-9611
email: snar@midway.uchicago.edu

Publications

"Defense," in The Impact of Domestic Violence on Your Legal Practice: A Lawyer's Handbook, 2nd ed. (American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence 2004).

Crime Control and Social Justice:  The Delicate Balance (Greenwood Publishing 2003) (edited with Darnell F. Hawkins and Samuel F. Myers).

"Burge Investigation Needs Ratcheting Up," Chicago Tribune (April 22, 2003) (with Locke Bowman). 

"Cop Brutality Probe Must Be Thorough, Fair; Public Confidence in Our Justice System is at Stake," Chicago Sun-Times (May 16, 2002) (with Locke E. Bowman).

"Race and Imprisonment," 7 The University of Chicago Roundtable 127 (2000).

"Atticus Finch, In Context," 97 Mich. L. Rev. 1378 (1999).

"Defense," in Attorney's Handbook for Handling Issues of Domestic Violence (American Bar Association's Commission on Domestic Violence 1996).

"The Criminal Justice System: Unfair and Ineffective," in Crime, Communities and Public Policy, Lawrence B. Joseph, ed. (The University of Chicago Center for Urban Research and Policy Studies 1995).

"Between a Rock and A Hard Place: Responding to the Judge or Supervisor Demanding Unethical Representation," in Ethical Problems Facing the Criminal Defense Lawyer, Practical Answers to Tough Questions, Rodney Uphoff, ed. (American Bar Association 1995).

"On the Road to Justice," Report to Members, American Bar Association, Criminal Justice, Vol. 9 #2 (Summer 1994).

"Crime Bill Blues," Report to Members, American Bar Association, Criminal Justice, Vol. 9 #1 (Spring 1994).

"Juvenile Justce: A Dream Deferred," Report to Members, American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Vol. 8 #4 (Winter 1994).

"A Fair and Effective Criminal Justice System," Report to Members, American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Vol. 8 #3 (Fall 1993), reprinted in the Chicago Defender (November 9-10, 1993).

"The Role of State Funded Programs in Legal Representation of Indigent Defendants in Criminal Cases," 17 American Journal of Trial Advocacy (Summer 1993).

"The Criminal Justice System: Unfair and Ineffective," Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Vol. II (1993).

"Public Service and Justice," The Gargoyle, University of Wisconsin Law School Forum, Vol. 23, #3 (Winter 92/93).

"The Struggle Continues at Home and Abroad," in Collateral Damage, The New World Order at Home and Abroad, Cynthia Peters, ed. (South End Press 1992).

"The Killing of Charles Walker," American Bar Association Criminal Justice, Vol. 7, No. 2, (Summer 1992).

"Race, Sentencing and Criminal Justice," 13 NLADA Cornerstone 8 (1991), reprinted in The Advocate, Vol. 14, No. 3 (April 1992).

"The Cook County Public Defender's Office: 60 Years of Service," The CBA Record (June 1991).

"Crisis in the Criminal Justice System," 8 Harvard Blackletter Journal (Spring 1991).

"The Mission of the Public Defender," National Bar Association Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 4 (April 1991).

"PD Urges Independence," Guest Editorial, Chicago Lawyer (February 1991).

Poverty, Education and the Crisis in Criminal Justice," Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (August 14, 1990) (with Barry Weisberg).

"Ask the Public Defender," series of columns with Assistant Public Defenders on criminal justice issues, Chicago Daily Defender (1988-1991).

"The War on Drugs: The Wrong Enemy and the Wrong Battlefield," National Bar Association Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 12 (December 1989).

Review of Silberman, Criminal Justice, Criminal Violence, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Winter Edition 1979).

Presentations

Numerous presentations to community groups, organizations, bar associations, etc. and participated in a variety of television and radio broadcasts including, inter alia, American Justice with Bill Curtis, A&E; Good Morning America, CBS; CNN; Chicago Tonight with John Calloway; The Today Show, NBC; WVON radio with Cliff Kelley; MacNeil/Leher News Hour, PBS; WBEZ public radio, Mara Tapp Show; WHPE radio; National Public Radio with Nina Totenberg "Racism and the Criminal Justice System"; NBC Nightly News; Listening to America with Bill Moyers, "The War on Drugs" PBS; the Oprah Winfrey Show; Cable Access, ACLU, "You Have the Right"; Juvenile Justice Series, WFLD, Ch. 32; PBS, "Tony Brown's Journal"; WNUA,Chicago Reporter series.

Presentations for and participation in a variety of programs at the Law School, including the Roundtable and Legal Forum symposiums, the Bigelow moot court program, the Street Law Project, the Black Law Students Association, Public Service Week and the student chapter of the ACLU.

University presentations: paper to the Public World of the Child workshop supported by the School of Social Services Administration, spoke on "juries" to the Women's Board of the University, made presentations to public school teachers of the Mellon Foundation Literacy Program of the Office of University-School Relations and the Know Your Chicago program, spoke to students and staff of the University's Community Service Center, the University's Episcopal Center and the Chicago Theological Seminary.

Participated in a web video forum discussion on death penalty issues at Columbia University featured on fathom.com, a consortium of select universities and museums.

Participated in October 1997 as a panelist in London, England regarding indigent defense for a program entitled: Legal Aid Contracting Lessons from North America, sponsored by the Legal Action Group.

Presented a paper in October 1992 on U.S. indigent defense systems to lawyers, legal workers and law professors in Johannesburg, South Africa, coordinated by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights South Africa Project.

Works in Progress