Professor Birdsong teaches Criminal
Law, White Collar Crime, Evidence, Federal Jurisdiction,
and Immigration Law. He received his Juris Doctor degree
from the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts
in 1973. Immediately after law school, he was an attorney
with the law firm of Baker & Hostetler. Later he served
as a diplomat with the State Department with various postings
in Nigeria, Germany, and the Bahamas. Professor Birdsong
also worked as a federal prosecutor, first as an Assistant
United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, and
later as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for
the U.S. Virgin Islands. After leaving government service,
Professor Birdsong was in private practice in Washington,
D.C., where he specialized in trial work ranging from
criminal defense work to political asylum matters. While
in private practice, Professor Birdsong was also involved
with broadcast work. He has done on-air TV legal analysis
work for Fox News, CNN, Court TV, BET TV News, and for
W*USA Channel 9 in Washington, D.C. During this same period,
he also produced and hosted several radio talk programs
in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore areas. Currently,
Professor Birdsong is occasionally invited to appear as
a legal commentator on Fox News and MSNBC. |
