Senior Lecturing Fellow
Victor Streib is a noted national authority on the death penalty and its application to women and juveniles. He is a prolific author with more than 300 books, book chapters, articles and papers. His work has been cited 28 times in U.S. Supreme Court opinions. Streib has served as appellate counsel in several death penalty cases involving juveniles, including Thompson v. Oklahoma, the landmark 1988 case that established a Constitutional minimum age of 16 for the death penalty. He has testified before Congressional committees and as an expert witness in death penalty trials nationally.
Streib currently teaches at Elon University. Previously, he taught and served as dean at Ohio Northern University College of Law. He has also taught at Indiana University - Bloomington, Michigan State University, University of San Diego, Cleveland State University and New England School of Law. Streib earned a law degree from Indiana University at Bloomington and a bachelor's degree from Auburn University.