John H. Blume

John Blume is a Professor of Law and Director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project at Cornell Law School, where he teaches Criminal Procedure, Evidence, the Death Penalty in America and a Capital Punishment Clinic. A graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Yale Divinity School and Yale Law School, Blume previously clerked for the Honorable Tom Clark and then served for a number of years as the Director of the South Carolina Death Penalty Resource Center, a non-profit corporation which represents indigent death sentenced inmates. He also currently serves as counsel to the Habeas Assistance and Training Project, which provides training materials and designs training programs for counsel appointed to represent indigent death sentenced inmates in federal habeas corpus proceedings.

Professor Blume has represented more than 100 death row inmates in 8 states, and he has argued 7 capital cases in the Supreme Court of the United States. He has also been co-counsel and amicus curiae counsel in numerous other Supreme Court cases. He is the co-author of "Death Penalty Stories," a "Modern Approach to Evidence" and the "Federal Habeas Corpus Update" as well as numerous book chapters and law review articles.