Ellen S. Kreitzberg

Professor of Law


Biography

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.  

Affiliations and Honors

Board of Directors, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice

Areas of Specialization
  • Criminal Law
  • Death Penalty
  • Evidence
  • Trial Advocacy
Courses Taught
Ellen Kreitzberg
ekreitzberg@scu.edu
(408) 554-4724
Bergin 115

EDUCATION

J.D., George Washington University Law School

B.A., University of Pennsylvania

 

Bibliography

Working Papers at SSRN