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.