Stone MacBeth is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, where he teaches trial skills and coaches national mock trial teams for the Benedict Morelli Trial Team. 

 

Outside of Cardozo, Stone is currently 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 moving into clinical teaching, Stone 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, he 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, Stone has also had the opportunity to work on parole, compassionate release, immigration, civil court, and family court cases.

In addition to his advocacy, Stone has held an academic appointment at Columbia Law School as a Lecturer in Law, where he taught the Bronx Defenders’ Holistic Defense Externship Seminar and oversaw student fieldwork. He also had the opportunity to teach trial skills to summer law clerks at both PDS and The Bronx Defenders.  

Stone 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, worked with the ACLU's national Criminal Law Reform Project, and interned with the Colorado State Public Defender. He also helped create, and obtained, a certificate in International Law and was inducted into the National Order of Barristers. He earned his BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.