Ellen Podgor

Ellen Podgor{{cite web |url=http://www.law.stetson.edu/faculty/podgor-ellen-s/ |title=Ellen S. Podgor - Profile {{!}} Stetson Law |website=www.law.stetson.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903125522/http://www.law.stetson.edu/faculty/podgor-ellen-s/ |archive-date=2011-09-03}} is an expert on white-collar crime and runs a white collar crime blog,{{cite web | url=http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/whitecollarcrime_blog/ | title=White Collar Crime Prof Blog }} which has been quoted by such blogs as The Wall Street Journal{{'}}s [https://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/07/05/scooters-libby-commutation-a-thursday-morning-roundup/ Law Blog] and the Daily Kos.{{cite web | url=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/27/970506/-Habeas-Corpus,-writs-written-worsen;-taking-wrong-turn-on-basic-rights | title=Habeas Corpus, writs written [w]orsen; taking wrong turn on basic rights | accessdate=January 10, 2012}}

A professor at Stetson University College of Law, Podgor was named the Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Professor in 2011, has been quoted in The New York Times,{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/24/technology/24online.ready.html | title=Doing Executive Time | accessdate=January 10, 2012 | work=The New York Times | first=Dan | last=Mitchell | date=September 24, 2005}}{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/world/europe/14react.html?scp=1&sq=Ellen%20Podgor&st=cse | title=News Corp. Newspapers May Face U.S. Inquiry | accessdate=January 10, 2012 | work=The New York Times | first=Brian | last=Stelter | date=July 13, 2011}} The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and other publications on big news stories such as Bernie Madoff and Enron.

She has co-authored books and articles on white collar crime, criminal law and international criminal law, and in 2010 testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security on the topic of overcriminalization.

{{cite web|url=http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Podgor100928.pdf |title=House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security |accessdate=January 6, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203190000/http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Podgor100928.pdf |archivedate=February 3, 2012 }} She has written numerous law journal articles, including one in The Yale Law Journal Online {{cite web | url=http://yalelawjournal.org/the-yale-law-journal-pocket-part/criminal-law-and-sentencing/throwing-away-the-key/ | title=Throwing Away the Key | accessdate=January 10, 2012}} about what she saw as harsh punishments of white collar criminals. She is the co-author with federal judge Paul D. Borman and Professors Peter Henning and Jerold Israel of the casebook White Collar Crime: Law and Practice.{{cite web|url=https://www.mied.uscourts.gov/index.cfm?pageFunction=chambers&judgeid=15|title=Judge Paul D. Borman |publisher=United States District Court -- Eastern Michigan District}}

She and Professor Roger Clark, of Rutgers–Camden, led an effort to have the American Law Institute come out in opposition of the death penalty{{cite web|url=http://www.ali.org/doc/MPC-Motion-Clark%20Podgor-April%202.pdf |title=Draft Model Penal Code |accessdate=January 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212111617/http://ali.org/doc/MPC-Motion-Clark%20Podgor-April%202.pdf |archivedate=December 12, 2010 }} That motion did not succeed, but led to discussion and debate that two years later, resulted in the organization dropping mention of the death penalty from its Model Penal Code.{{cite web | url=http://www.intlawgrrls.com/2009/11/no-more-model-code-on-capital.html | title=No more Model Code on capital punishment | accessdate=January 10, 2012}}

Podgor started her law career as a prosecutor, but later became a defense attorney and is active in the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Under Podgor's leadership, Stetson and NACDL have created the White Collar Criminal Defense College,{{cite web |url=http://www.nacdl.org/LegalEducation.aspx?id=21889 |title=NACDL - White Collar College |website=www.nacdl.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003065421/http://www.nacdl.org/LegalEducation.aspx?id=21889 |archive-date=2011-10-03}} which they bill as a boot-camp for defense attorneys to better hone their advocacy skills. Podgor won the NACDL's top award, the Robert C. Heeney Memorial Award, in August 2010.{{cite web | url=http://www.nacdl.org/NewsReleases.aspx?id=17727&terms=ellen+podgor | title=Professor Ellen S. Podgor Receives Criminal Defense Bar's Top Honor | accessdate=January 10, 2012}}