Jonathan Turley - letture in inglese

Jonathan Turley

he was born in Chicago, Illinois.  he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago  in 1983 and his Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University School of Law in 1987.
He married his wife Leslie, on  New Year's Eve in 1997.
He served as a House leadership page in 1977 and 1978 under the sponsorship of Illinois Democrat Sidney Yates. In 2008 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Law from  John Marshall Law School in recognition of his career as an advocate of civil liberties and constitutional rights.
Turley lives in Washington D.C. with his wife and four children.

Turley holds the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School where he teaches torts, criminal procedure, and constitutional law.
 He is the youngest person to receive an academic chair in the school's history. He runs the Project for Older Prisoners (POPS), the Environmental Law Clinic, and the Environmental Legislation Project.^[1]
Prior to joining the George Washington University, he was on the faculty of Tulane University Law school
Turley was also found to be the second most cited law professor in the country. He has been repeatedly ranked in the nation’s top 500 lawyers in annual surveys (including in the latest rankings by Law Dragon) – one of only a handful of academics.In prior years, he was ranked as one of the nation’s top ten lawyers in military law cases as well as one of the top 40 lawyers under 40. In 2016, he was ranked as one of the 100 most famous (past and present) law professors.



He is a critic of special treatment for the church in law, asking why there are laws that "expressly exempt faith-based actions that result in harm."
Turley disagrees with the theory that dealing with bullies is just a part of growing up, claiming that they are "no more a natural part of learning than is parental abuse a natural part of growing up" and believes that litigation could succeed in forcing schools to take bullying more seriously".
He has written extensively about the injustice of thedeath penalty  noting, "Human error remains a principal cause of botched executions. ... eventually society will be forced to deal directly with a fundamental moral question: Has death itself become the intolerable element of the death penalty?"
He worries that the Supreme Court is injecting itself into partisan politics. He has frequently expressed the view that recent nominees to the court hold extreme views.