Stone MacBeth is a clinical fellow in the Civil-Criminal Litigation Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School, where he teaches clinic seminars and supervises student attorneys in both civil and criminal cases.
Before coming to Michigan Law, MacBeth was a staff attorney in the criminal defense practice at The Bronx Defenders, where he represented people charged with crimes throughout all phases of their case. Prior to joining The Bronx Defenders, MacBeth started his career as a public defender in the trial division at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS), where he represented juveniles and adults charged with serious felonies. Throughout his career as a defender, MacBeth has also had the opportunity to work on parole, compassionate release, immigration, civil court, and family court cases.
In addition to his advocacy, MacBeth has held academic appointments at Columbia Law School as a lecturer in law, where he taught the Bronx Defenders’ Holistic Defense Externship Seminar and oversaw student fieldwork, as well as an adjunct professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, where he taught trial skills and coached national mock trial teams for Cardozo Law’s Benedict Morelli Trial Team. He also had the opportunity to teach trial skills to summer law clerks at both PDS and The Bronx Defenders.
MacBeth earned his JD from the University of Colorado School of Law where he worked as a student attorney in the Criminal and Immigration Defense Clinic, served as a team leader for the Korey Wise Innocence Project, and interned with the Colorado State Public Defender.
Outside of his criminal defense experience, MacBeth worked extensively in civil rights, interning for a civil rights firm and the ACLU’s national Criminal Law Reform Project. He also helped create, and obtained, a certificate in International Law and was inducted into the National Order of Barristers. MacBeth earned his BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.