Juliet Sorensen

Juliet Sorensen (born 1972/1973)^[1] is an American lawyer. She is a clinical professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law.^[2] She directs the Northwestern Access to Health Project,^[3] an interdisciplinary global health program.^[4]

Early life

Born to Theodore C. Sorensen, former special counsel to President John F. Kennedy, and Gillian M. Sorensen of the United Nations Foundation,^[5] Sorensen graduated from Princeton University and Columbia Law School.

Career

Between 1995 and 1997, Sorensen volunteered with the Peace Corps in Morocco.^[6]

She served as assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago from 2003 to 2010. She prosecuted City of Chicago inspectors as part of Operation Crooked Code, a bribery investigation into the Chicago building and zoning departments.^[7][8] She prosecuted Jean-Marie Vianney ("Zuzu") Mudahinyuka, a leader of the Rwandan genocide,^[9] in a case cited as a success of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement No Safe Haven initiative against human rights violators.^[10]

In March 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in a unanimous panel opinion written by Judge Richard Posner, found that Sorensen had engaged in prosecutorial misconduct and made "a series of improper statements" which the Court labeled "false and misleading."^[11] In the trial court case of U.S. v. Farinella, which was appealed as 558 F.3d 695,^[12][13] a jury had found a Chicago businessman guilty of fraud and misbranding for relabeling 1.6 million bottles of salad dressing to extend their "best when purchased by" date, then reselling the bottles.^[14] Posner found that although relabeling "best when purchased by" dates was not a crime, Sorensen's improper argument would have required reversal in any case.^[15]

Personal life

Sorensen married economist Benjamin Jones on August 19, 2000.^[1]

See also

• Comprehensive planning
• Interahamwe
• Operation Crooked Code
• Peace Corps
• Rwandan genocide