Joseph Margulies

Joseph Margulies, lecturer and trial attorney at MacArthur Justice Center, has been a successful civil rights and capital defense attorney for 14 years. He has represented scores of death row inmates around the country, and he currently is lead counsel for four detainees held at Guantanamo Bay in Rasul et al. v. Bush et al. The case will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this spring. To work with MacArthur Justice Center, Margulies is taking leave from Margulies & Richman, PLC, his criminal defense and civil rights practice in Minneapolis. Margulies is a 1988 cum laude graduate of Northwestern University Law School. Following graduation, Margulies clerked for the Honorable William Hart in U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. He later served as the senior staff attorney of the Texas Capital Resource Center, where he represented men and women on Texas' death row.