Email

kirchmeier@mail.law.cuny.edu

Phone

(718) 340-4335

Office

350B

Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier, Professor, teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Lawyering Seminar, Death Penalty Law, and Moot Court. He received his B.A. and J.D. from Case Western Reserve University. Before joining the CUNY Law faculty, he worked as a litigation associate at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. and taught at Tulane School of Law and Arizona State University College of Law. For several years, he was a staff attorney at the Arizona Capital Representation Project, where he represented indigent capital defendants in state appeals, state post-conviction proceedings, federal habeas corpus proceedings and at clemency hearings. Additionally, he supervised and helped train capital defense attorneys throughout Arizona and was the editor of a quarterly legal publication on legal developments in the death penalty area.

Professor Kirchmeier is the author of numerous law review articles about criminal procedure and the death penalty, including an analysis of the death penalty moratorium movement. He remains active in death penalty work, and is a member (and former Chair) of the Capital Punishment Committee of the New York City Bar Association. He has appeared before a New York Assembly joint committee deciding whether the death penalty should be reinstated in New York. His awards include a President's Commendation by Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice, the Young Alumni Award from Case Western Reserve University, and he has twice won the Outstanding Professor Award from a graduating class.