Ellen Podgor is an expert on

white-collar crime The term "white-collar crime" refers to financially motivated, nonviolent or non-directly violent crime committed by individuals, businesses and government professionals. It was first defined by the sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as "a ...

and runs a white collar crime blog, which has been quoted by such blogs as ''

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''
Law Blog
and the

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. A professor at

Stetson University College of Law Stetson University College of Law (Stetson Law), founded in 1900 and part of Stetson University, is Florida's first law school. Originally located near the university's main campus in DeLand, Florida, the law school moved in 1954 to Gulfport, Flor ...

, Podgor was named the Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Professor in 2011, has been quoted in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''The Wall Street Journal'' and other publications on big news stories such as

Bernie Madoff Bernard Lawrence Madoff ( ; April 29, 1938April 14, 2021) was an American fraudster and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, worth about $64.8 billion. He was at one time chairman of the NASDAQ ...

and

Enron Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. It was founded by Kenneth Lay in 1985 as a merger between Lay's Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth, both relatively small regional compani ...

. She has co-authored books and articles on white collar crime, criminal law and

international criminal law International criminal law (ICL) is a body of public international law designed to prohibit certain categories of conduct commonly viewed as serious atrocities and to make perpetrators of such conduct criminally accountable for their perpetrat ...

, and in 2010 testified before the

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on the topic of overcriminalization. She has written numerous law journal articles, including one in The

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Online about what she saw as harsh punishments of white collar criminals. She is the co-author with federal judge Paul D. Borman and Professors Peter Henning and Jerold Israel of the casebook ''White Collar Crime: Law and Practice''. She and Professor

Roger Clark Roger Albert Clark, MBE (5 August 1939 – 12 January 1998) was a British rally driver during the 1960s and '70s, and the first competitor from his country to win a World Rally Championship (WRC) event when he triumphed at the 1976 RAC Rally. ...

, of Rutgers–Camden, led an effort to have the

American Law Institute The American Law Institute (ALI) is a research and advocacy group of judges, lawyers, and legal scholars established in 1923 to promote the clarification and simplification of United States common law and its adaptation to changing social needs ...

come out in opposition of the death penalty That motion did not succeed, but led to discussion and debate that two years later, resulted in the organization dropping mention of the death penalty from its

Model Penal Code The Model Penal Code (MPC) is a model act designed to stimulate and assist U.S. state legislatures to update and standardize the Criminal law of the United States, penal law of the United States.MPC (Foreword). The MPC was a project of the America ...

. Podgor started her law career as a prosecutor, but later became a defense attorney and is active in the

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) is an American criminal defense organization. Members include private criminal defense lawyers, public defenders, active U.S. military defense counsel, law professors, judges, and d ...

. Under Podgor's leadership, Stetson and NACDL have created the White Collar Criminal Defense College, which they bill as a boot-camp for defense attorneys to better hone their

advocacy Advocacy is an Action (philosophy), activity by an individual or advocacy group, group that aims to influence decision making, decisions within political, economic, and social institutions. Advocacy includes activities and publications to infl ...

skills. Podgor won the NACDL's top award, the Robert C. Heeney Memorial Award, in August 2010.

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