Benjamin J. Priester

Assistant Professor

Florida State University
College of Law
B.K. Roberts Hall, Room 323
Phone: (850) 644-7474
Fax: (850) 644-5487
bprieste@law.fsu.edu

Education
A.B., 1996, Harvard University
J.D., 1998, Duke University School of Law

Professor Priester studies constitutional issues in criminal law and procedure, focusing on the relationship between elements of crimes and sentencing provisions. He teaches Criminal Law, Constitutional Criminal Procedure II, and a constitutional criminal procedure seminar.

Before joining the faculty, Professor Priester was a law clerk to Judge Susan H. Black on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and an associate at Ropes & Gray in Washington, DC. He graduated cum laude from Harvard College and summa cum laude from Duke University School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of Law & Contemporary Problems.