Bryan Stevenson

Bryan Stevenson (2012)

Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959 in Milton , Delaware ) is an American lawyer and civil rights activist .

Life

Stevenson grew up in Delaware, his mother is a church musician. He has been a professor at New York University School of Law (NYU Law) since 1998 . In 1989 he founded the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) .

In 2011 he was honored with the Four Freedoms Award in the category Freedom from Fear in Hyde Park , New York .

In 2014 he was selected in the Social Sciences category of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In 2019 the film Just Mercy about Stevenson's life and in particular the case of Walter MacMillian was released . The lawyer was embodied by Michael B. Jordan . In Germany, the film was released on February 27, 2020.

Bryan Stevenson received the “ Alternative Nobel Prize ” in 2020 for his fight against racism in the American judiciary. Stevenson said of the award that it connects people around the world who are fighting against inequality, oppression and abuse of power.

Awards

2000: Olof Palme Prize

2009: Gruber Justice Prize

2011: Four Freedoms Award in the Freedom from Fear category

2014: Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction for Without Mercy

2015: Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction for Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

2018: Benjamin Franklin Medal from the American Philosophical Society

2020: Right Livelihood Award

Fonts

Just Mercy. A Story of Justice and Redemption. New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-8129-9452-0 .
- Without mercy. Police violence and arbitrariness in the United States. Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-05722-6 .

Web links

Commons : Bryan Stevenson - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Elisabeth von Thadden : Unschuldsvermutung zeit.de, accessed on December 2, 2015

Individual evidence

↑ Zeit Literature No. 41, October 2015, p. 40.
↑ https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.biography&personid=20315
↑ tagesschau.de: "Alternative Nobel Prize": Honor for four human rights activists. Retrieved October 1, 2020 .
^ Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction

personal data
SURNAME	Stevenson, Bryan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Stevenson, Bryan A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American lawyer and civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 14, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Milton , Delaware

[1] Zeit Literature No. 41, October 2015, p. 40.

[2] ttps://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.biography&personid=20315

[3] tagesschau.de: "Alternative Nobel Prize": Honor for four human rights activists. Retrieved October 1, 2020 .

[4] Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction