Joseph Margulies, Esq.

Joseph Margulies, Esq., is a principal in the Minneapolis firm of Margulies & Richman and a faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School. He received his B.A., with honors, from Cornell University in 1982, and his J.D., cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law in 1988.  In 1989 he joined the staff of the Texas Capital Resource Center, where he represented men and women on Texas’s death row, eventually becoming Senior Staff Attorney. In 1994 he moved to Minnesota, and he now specializes in civil rights and capital defense. He is lead counsel in Rasul v. Bush, which challenges the prisoner detentions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Margulies writes and lectures widely on capital defense and civil liberties in the wake of September 11.