Juliet Sorensen
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Juliet Sorensen (born 1972/1973)[1] is an American lawyer. She is a clinical professor of law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and serves as the director of Loyola's Rule of Law Institute and Rule of Law for Development Program.[2] Previously, she was a member of the clinical faculty at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where she was associated with its Center for International Human Rights.[3][4]
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]