Bienen, Leigh B.

Leigh Buchanan Bienen, senior lecturer at the Northwestern School of Law and wife of Northwestern University president Henry S. Bienen, joined the School of Law in 1995, the same year her husband took office. She lectures in the areas of criminal law, juries, and law and social science, and has additional areas of interest and expertise in capital punishment, sex crimes, and rape reform legislation. In addition, she is a prolific writer of fiction, mainly short stories and plays.

Her literary education began as an undergraduate at Cornell, where she studied with Vladimir Nabokov and Herbert Gold, and her career as a fiction writer and playwright began at the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Bienen received a B.A. with honors in English from Cornell in 1960, and an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1963. Bienen wrote fiction and worked as an assistant to Saul Bellow while her husband was completing his graduate studies at the University of Chicago between 1965-1966. She obtained her J.D. from the Rutgers School of Law in Newark, New Jersey in 1975.

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