Professor of Law and Director, Cornell Death Penalty Project
Cornell Law School
112 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Phone: (607) 255-1030
Fax: (607) 255-7193
Email: jb94@cornell.edu
Prof. Blume clerked for the Hon. Thomas A. Clark of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. After private practice, he became Executive Director of the South Carolina Death Penalty Project, where he remained until 1996. He joined Cornell Law School in 1993, and, in conjunction with Cornell Professors Sherri Lynn Johnson and Stephen Garvey, formed the Cornell Death Penalty Project to foster empirical scholarship on the death penalty, offer students an opportunity to work on death penalty cases, and provides information and assistance for death penalty lawyers. He has served since 1996 on the Habeas Assistance and Training Project Counsel, which consults the Defender Services Committee of the United States Courts. He teaches Criminal Procedure, Evidence, the Death Penalty in America and supervises several capital clinics.
