Samuel H. Pillsbury
Professor of Law and J. Howard Ziemann Fellow
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-1093
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: samuel.pillsbury@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
AB with honors, Harvard College
JD, University of Southern California, Order of the Coif
While in law school, Samuel Pillsbury was a member of the Southern California Law Review and received the USC Law Alumni Award for attaining the highest cumulative grade point average in his class. After graduation, he served as law clerk to the Honorable William Matthew Byrne, Jr. of the United States District Court in Los Angeles. Before joining the Loyola Law School faculty in 1986, Pillsbury served as assistant United States attorney, Criminal Division, Los Angeles. Pillsbury writes primarily in the area of criminal law.
Mission to California (2003)
"A Different Kind of Courage, A Different Kind of Peace," Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law (2003)
"Crimes Against the Heart: Recognizing the Wrongs of Forced Sex," 35 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 845 (2002)
Review Essay, "A Rough Country Guide: Double Jeopardy,
Doctrine and
Realism," Review of George C. Thomas, Double Jeopardy: The
History, The Law, 20 Criminal Justice Ethics 52 (2001)
Intoxication, Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, (2d ed. 2001)
Harlan, Holmes and the Passions of Justice, in "The Passions of Law" (S. Bandes ed. NYU 2000) (paper ed. 2001)
"Judging Evil: Rethinking the Laws of Murder and
Manslaughter" (NYU
1998) (paper ed. 2000)
Criminal Law, American Legal History Survey, Criminal Procedure, Adjudicative Process