Stephen J. Cribari

St. Lawrence University, B.A.
Catholic University, J.C.L., J.D.

Professor Stephen J. Cribari brings a diversity of interests to the Law School. A former Federal Public Defender who has twice argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, he teaches constitutional law, evidence, physical evidence/expert testimony, and criminal law. He is the Reporter for the Criminal Pattern Jury Instruction Committee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, is on the faculty of ATF's National Firearms Examiner Academy, and is a member of NIJ's Technical Working Group on Digital Evidence in the courtroom. Professor Cribari designed, and has conducted, the moot court component of the FBI Computer Analysis Response Team's examiner qualification training program. In 2003, he was recognized by the FBI for outstanding public service.

In 2004-05, Professor Cribari was a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he has continued to teach most summers. He has taught at the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver (where he designed the federal appellate clinical program, the students winning 5 of their first 8 cases). Professor Cribari has also taught at the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University, and in the Department of Forensic Sciences at George Washington University.

Professor Cribari received his J.D. from Catholic University (1980), and is the first American layman to have received a Pontifical degree in Canon Law (J.C.L., 1977). He has taught Canon Law at Catholic University and is a former tribunal judge for the Military Archdiocese. He received his B.A. from St. Lawrence University.

Professor Cribari is also a published playwright and poet, his most recent work being Crevasse Rescue and Bar Talk. He is co-librettist of Ein Friedensoratorium, a peace oratorio composed by Carola Assali that premiered in 2000 in Heidelberg, Germany. His short play, Fingerprinting a Corpse, is published in The Playwrights' Center Monologues for Men (Heinemann, 2005). His poem You Should Have Seen It appears in Tigertail: a South Florida Annual (2006), and has been selected for the forthcoming edition of Best of Tigertail.

He is co-author of two screenplays, with Professor Don Judges of the University of Arkansas School of Law. In a former lifetime he was a tournament official with the PGA Tour.

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