Richard Bierschbach

Richard A. Bierschbach is a law professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. He specializes in alternative sentencing, criminal law, and white-collar crime.

Bierschbach attended the University of Michigan, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1994, and his juris doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1997.

Bierschbach was a law clerk for Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the DC Circuit and for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States. In addition, Bierschbach served as an attorney-advisor for the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel as well as working as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General.

Bierschbach began his time at Cardozo in 2003 as a visiting professor but was hired on a permanent basis in 2005. He currently teaches criminal law to first-year students. Bierschbach is well liked by students, and is universally considered even-handed when dealing with controversial topics. Representative of a new crop of talented, confident and young professors, Bierschbach, a self-described "softy," refrains from the coarse and condescending socratic method of his older col­leagues, preferring instead to enliven the discussion with self-deprecating humor and absurd hypotheticals.

External links

* [http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/faculty_staff/fulltime.asp] : Faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
* [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/01/lol.01.html] : Transcript of Professor Bierschbach's appearance on CNN
* [http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/2005/05/cardozas_new_cr.html] : CrimProfBlog spotlight on Professor Bierschbach