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Ellen S. Kreitzberg
Professor of Law
Professor Kreitzberg has practiced and written extensively on the death penalty. She created and now directs the Death Penalty College, a residential training program held each August at Santa Clara University School of Law to train lawyers assigned to the defense of a capital case.
Prior to joining Santa Clara University School of Law in 1988, Professor Kreitzberg was a trial attorney for the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C., while also representing death row inmates on a pro bono basis. She is an annual guest lecturer at Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Program.
Board of Directors, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
- Criminal Law
- Death Penalty
- Evidence
- Trial Advocacy

ekreitzberg@scu.edu
(408) 554-4724
Bergin 115
EDUCATION
J.D., George Washington University Law School
B.A., University of Pennsylvania




