Mark Denbeaux

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Mark Denbeaux
Born July 30, 1943 (1943-07-30) (age 68)
Gainesville, Florida, U.S.

Mark P. Denbeaux (b. July 30, 1943 in Gainesville, Florida) is a law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law. Denbeaux is the Director of the Center for Policy and Research at Seton Hall Law School and practicing attorney of counsel in the family law firm of Denbeaux & Denbeaux.[1] He gained public exposure beyond the legal and academic communities with his publication on February 8, 2006, "Report on Guantanamo Detainees, A Profile of 517 Detainees through Analysis of Department of Defense Data," the first of a series of reports examining issues pertaining the structure and conditions of Guantanamo Bay Detention Center.[2]

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[edit] Education

[edit] Education

Denbeaux received his A.B. from College of Wooster (Wooster, OH) in 1965.[3] He then attended New York University School of Law (New York, NY), where he graduated in 1968.[4]

[edit] Civil Rights Activism

An active proponent of civil rights in the 1960s, Denbeaux marched at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. Following the March on Washington, Denbeaux founded the Wooster, OH NAACP chapter. He also marched in Selma, AL in 1965.

[edit] Career

After graduating from NYU Law School in 1968, Denbeaux became a founding member of the South Bronx Legal Services.[5] He then became the city-wide coordinator for the Community Action for Legal Services from 1970-1972.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, Denbeaux represented Black Panthers in the Bronx and Manhattan with Jeffrey Brand, who is the current Dean of the University of San Francisco Law School.[6] He represented the Young Lords in the Bronx during their takeover of Lincoln Hospital.

Denbeaux represented a number of U.S. soldiers charged with disobeying orders during the anti-war movement during the early 1970s. This included defending them at their court martials.

In 1972, Denbeaux joined the Seton Hall Law School Faculty, and is now in his 40th year of teaching. At Seton Hall, Denbeaux has taught courses including Evidence, Remedies, Uniform Commercial Code, Contracts, Professional Responsibility, Federal Civil Procedure, Torts, and Constitutional Law. He has been an elected member of the American Law Institute since 1980.[7]

Denbeaux defended Sydney Biddle Barrows, the "Mayflower Madam," in 1984. Barrows ran an escort service in New York City, Cachet, from 1979 until 1984, when the service was shut down and she was charged with promoting prostitution by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. She eventually pled guilty.[8]

In 1997 Denbeaux served as a forensic expert for the Timothy McVeigh trial.[9]

Denbeaux currently serves as Attorney of Counsel for the family law firm Denbeaux and Denbeaux.[10]

[edit] Books

  • Trial Evidence, (I.C.L.E.), (with Micheal Risinger), 1978, 1052 pp.
  • New Jersey Evidentiary Foundations, Denbeaux, Arseneault and Imwinkelried, The Michie Company, 1995.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Book review

  • "Resignation in Protest: Political and Ethical Choices Between Loyalty to Team and Loyalty to Conscience in American Public Life," 4 Hofstra L. Rev. (1976).

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  • American Bar Foundation, 1974-78. Recipient of a grant, with Professor Alan Katz of Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, to conduct a longitudinal study on law student attitudes, towards politics, law and legal education
  • Alteration or Elaboration: Does Law School Instill Cynicism?, (with Alan Katz), National Conferences on Teaching Professional Responsibility, Detroit, Michigan, Sept. 1977

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ "Mark Denbeaux". Seton Hall Law Faculty Profile. Seton Hall Law. http://law.shu.edu/Faculty/display-profile.cfm?customel_datapageid_4018=16006. Retrieved 27 February 2012. 
  2. ^ "Mark Denbeaux". Seton Hall Law Faculty Profile. Seton Hall Law. http://law.shu.edu/Faculty/display-profile.cfm?customel_datapageid_4018=16006. Retrieved 27 February 2012. 
  3. ^ "Mark Denbeaux". Seton Hall Law Faculty Profile. Seton Hall Law. http://law.shu.edu/Faculty/display-profile.cfm?customel_datapageid_4018=16006. Retrieved 27 February 2012. 
  4. ^ "Mark Denbeaux". Seton Hall Law Faculty Profile. Seton Hall Law. http://law.shu.edu/Faculty/display-profile.cfm?customel_datapageid_4018=16006. Retrieved 27 February 2012. 
  5. ^ "Mark Denbeaux". Mark Denbeaux: Attorney Biography. Denbeaux & Denbeaux Attorneys at Law. http://www.denbeauxlaw.com/mark_denbeaux.php. Retrieved 27 February 2012. 
  6. ^ "Jeffrey S. Brand". Jeffrey S. Brand Biography. University of San Francisco School of Law. http://www.usfca.edu/law/faculty/jeffrey_brand/. Retrieved 27 February 2012. 
  7. ^ "Mark Denbeaux". Denbeaux & Denbeaux: Attorney Profile. Denbeaux & Denbeaux Attorneys at Law. http://www.denbeauxlaw.com/mark_denbeaux.php. Retrieved 27 February 2012. 
  8. ^ Haden-Guest, Anthony (Dec. 10, 1984). "The Story of the Mayflower Madam". New York Magazine. http://books.google.com/books?id=IeYCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=mark+denbeaux+sydney+barrows&source=bl&ots=GeuRMSM69v&sig=i4eXDjSYus2OY6JVXCSk5Qix9MI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0LJLT7W2IKX40gGaibmGDg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=mark%20denbeaux%20sydney%20barrows&f=false. Retrieved 27 February 2012. 
  9. ^ Jones, Stephen (1998). Others Unknown: Timothy Mcveigh and the Oklahoma. Public Affairs. ISBN 1586480987. 
  10. ^ "Denbeaux & Denbeaux". Denbeaux & Denbeaux Attorneys at Law. http://www.denbeauxlaw.com/. Retrieved 27 February 2012. 

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