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'''Bernardine Rae Dohrn''' (born [[January 12]], [[1942]]) is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the Director of Northwestern's [http://www.law.northwestern.edu/cfjc/ Children and Family Justice Center].  She is a former leader of the organization known as the [[Weatherman (organization)|Weathermen]].

==Early Life and Career==

Dorhn was born in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]] in 1942 and grew up in [[Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin]]. She graduated from [[Whitefish Bay High School]] where she was a cheerleader <ref>http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mailing_lists/CLA-L/2003/02/0066.php</ref> and attended the [[University of Chicago]] where she graduated with honors with a B.A. in Political Science in 1963, and with a J.D. from the [[University of Chicago Law School|University of Chicago School of Law]] in 1967. <ref>[http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/clinic/dohrn/dohrn.html Bernardine Dohrn, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Faculty Profiles, Faculty & Research, School of Law, Northwestern University<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Dohrn became one of the leaders of the [[Revolutionary Youth Movement]] (RYM), a radical wing of [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS), in the late 1960s. In the summer of 1969, the ninth annual national SDS conference was held. SDS collapsed in a RYM-led upheaval at the end of the convention.  "The [[Weatherman (organization)|Weathermen]]" as Dohrn's faction was now called, began a series of [[direct action]]s against the American government. As a result of an accidental (contracted; show full)elves in to authorities in 1980.  During the last years of their underground life, Dohrn and Ayers resided in the [[Logan_Square%2C_Chicago|Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago]], where they used the aliases Christine Louise Douglas and Anthony J. Lee.<ref>Chicago Home of a Friend was Refuge for Miss Dohrn.  Nathaniel Sheppard, Jr. New York Times. Dec 5, 1980. p. A.22</ref> While some charges relating to their activities with the Weathermen were dropped due to governmental misconduct<ref>
[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>, Dohrn pled guilty to charges of aggravated battery and bail jumping, receiving probation. <ref> Milwaukee Sentinel, Jan. 14, 1981 </ref> She later served less than a year of jail time, after refusing to testify against ex-Weatherman Susan Rosenberg in an armed robbery case<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>.   Shortly after turning themselves in, Dohrn and Ayers adopted Chesa Boudin, when his biological parents and former members of the Weather Underground, [[Kathy Boudin]] and [[David Gilbert]], were arrested in connection with the [[Black Liberation Army]]. {{Fact|date=February 2007}}

From 1984 to 1988, Dohrn was employed by the law firm [[Sidley Austin]], although her criminal record has prevented her from being admitted to either the New York or Illinois bar.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E4D71739F933A25751C0A963948260 FOLLOW-UP ON THE NEWS; Hurdle for Dohrn - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>  In 1991, she became a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at [[Northwestern University]] in Chicago.  She now serves on the board of numerous human rights committees and teaches comparative law.  Since 2002, she has served as Visiting Law Faculty at the [[Vrije Universiteit]] in [[Amsterdam]].

==Articles by Dohrn==

*[http://www.monthlyreview.org/0703dohrn.htm Homeland Imperialism: Fear and Resistance, by Bernardine Dohrn - Monthly Review]
*[http://www.monthlyreview.org/0104dohrn.htm She Challenged the Rules, by Bernardine Dohrn - Monthly Review]

== External links ==
*[http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/clinic/dohrn/dohrn.html Her biography at the Northwestern Law site, with a link to her CV]
*[http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/today.html PBS Article "The Weathermen Today"]
*[http://www.mugshots.com/Historical/Bernardine+Dohrn.htm Mugshot From Chicago PD Files]
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17953182/displaymode/1107//s/2/framenumber/5 MSNBC Photo Gallery: Really Bad Girls]

== References ==

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[[Category:Living people|Dohrn, Bernardine]]
[[Category:People from Milwaukee|Dohrn, Bernardine]]
[[Category:Members of Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)|Dohrn, Bernardine]]
[[Category:COINTELPRO targets|Dohrn, Bernardine]]
[[Category:Terrorism in the United States]]