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Margaret
Colgate Love MARGARET LOVE specializes in executive clemency and restoration of rights, sentencing and corrections policy, and legal and government ethics. She has written and lectured widely on executive clemency and the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction, and her state-by-state guide to “Relief from the Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Conviction” was published by W.S. Hein in 2006. She consults with legislatures, clemency and parole authorities, governors’ offices, and other agencies on the development of mechanisms for relief from collateral consequences. Ms. Love currently serves as Director of the ABA Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions, and was a reporter for the ABA Justice Kennedy Commission. She headed the drafting committee for the ABA Standards on Collateral Sanctions and Discretionary Disqualification of Convicted Persons, and is currently ABA liaison to the National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws collateral consequences uniform law project. She also chairs the ABA Standards drafting committee on the Treatment of Prisoners. Ms. Love served as United States Pardon Attorney in the Justice Department from 1990 to 1997, with overall responsibility for operation and management of Justice Department’s executive clemency program. Prior to that she was Deputy Associate Attorney General and Associate Deputy Attorney General (1988-1990), and Senior Counsel in the Office of Legal Counsel (1979-1988). Ms. Love was awarded a Soros Senior Fellowship in 2004-2005. She is a former chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, and member of the ABA Commission on Evaluation of the Rules of Professional Conduct (“Ethics 2000”). Ms. Love received her law degree from Yale in 1977, and has a Masters Degree in Medieval History from the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Love's resume can be found here. (Adobe Acrobat required) |