Adjunct Professor of Law
B.A., University of Iowa; J.D., Harvard.

Biography

B.A., University of Iowa; J.D., Harvard. Professor Biebesheimer is Chief Counsel of the Justice Reform Practice Group in the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank. Prior to joining the Bank she was Principal Specialist in Modernization of the State in the Inter-American Development Bank from 1989 - 2005, and an associate with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy from 1986 – 1989. Ms. Biebesheimer is a member of the Editorial Board of Sistemas Judiciales, a publication of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas in Santiago, Chile; and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Offender Aid and Restoration of Arlington County, a non-profit community organization aimed at reestablishing inmates and ex-offenders as productive and responsible members of the community. Her publications include “Measuring the Impact of Criminal Justice Reform in Latin America” (in Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad, Thomas Carothers, editor, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006); “The Impact of Human Rights Principles on Justice Reform in the Inter-American Development Bank” (in Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement, Alston and Robinson, editors, Oxford University Press, 2005); and Justice Beyond Our Borders: Judicial Reforms for Latin America and the Caribbean (Biebesheimer, Mejia, editors, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).