Mae C. Quinn

Associate Professor of Law
B.A., 1991, State University of New York at Albany
J.D., 1995, University of Texas
LL.M., 2001, Georgetown University

Advocacy Clinic; Problem-Solving Courts Seminar

Email: mquinn3@utk.edu
SSRN author page: http://ssrn.com/author=525565

Professor Quinn joined the law school after practicing for six years as a New York City public defender.  During that time she represented indigent criminal defendants in trials, appeals, and post-conviction proceedings.  Previously, she was an associate with a prominent white-collar criminal defense law firm and helped oversee a project relating to the implications of problem-solving courts for the Center for Court Innovation.  Professor Quinn taught as an E. Barrett Prettyman clinical fellow in Georgetown University's Criminal Justice Clinic and as an adjunct professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.  She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York.  In the Advocacy Clinic Professor Quinn specializes in juvenile and criminal defense work.  Her research focuses on legal and ethical issues facing criminal defense lawyers -- such as the modern problem-solving court movement -- and women’s legal history.

Representative Publications

Articles:

Book Review: Marilyn Johnson’s “Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City,”___ Law & History Review ___ (forthcoming 2009)(invited book review).

Anna Moscowitz Kross and The Home Term Part: A Second Look at the Nation’s First Criminal Domestic Violence Court, ___ Akron L. Rev. ___ (2008)(forthcoming as part of the New Face of Women’s Legal History Symposium Issue).

Postscript to an RSVP, 48 Boston College Law Review 592 (2007)(reply to Not Such a Party Pooper: An Attempt to Accommodate (Many of) Professor Quinn’s Concerns About Therapeutic Jurisprudence Criminal Defense Lawyering, 48 Boston College L. Rev. 597 (2007).

An RSVP to Professor David Wexler’s Warm TJ Invitation: Unable to Join You, Already (Somewhat Similarly) Engaged, 48 Boston College L. Rev. 539 (May 2007).

Revisiting Anna Moscowitz Kross’s Critique of New York City’s Women’s Court: The Continued Problem of Solving the “Problem” of Prostitution With Specialized Criminal Courts, 33 Fordham Urban L.J. 665 (2006).

Whose Team Am I on Anyway? Musings of a Public Defender About Drug Treatment Court Practice, 26 N.Y.U. Rev. of L. & Soc. Change 37 (2000-2001).

Terry, Race and Judicial Integrity: The Court and Suppression During the War on Drugs, 72 St. John’s L. Rev. 1323 (1998)(co-authored with Judge Jack B. Weinstein).

The Garden Path of Boyles v. Kerr and Twyman v. Twyman: An Outrageous Response to Victims of Sexual Misconduct, 4 Tex. J. of Women & L. 247 (1995).

Essays in Books:

Some Reflections on the Federal Judicial Role During the War on Drugs, in The Judicial Role in Criminal Proceedings (Sean Doran and John D. Jackson, eds., Hart Publishing 2000)(co-authored with Judge Jack B. Weinstein).

Works in Progress

Anna Moscowitz Kross (biography - working title).

Anna Moscowitz Kross and the Original Problem-Solving Court Movement: Lessons to Learn from a Lifetime of Criminal Justice Innovation (article - working title).

A New Clinician’s Ways of (Un)Knowing: Second Stage Subjectivity, Forgetting to Remember, Remembering to Forget, and (Re)creating Identity (essay – working title).

Contextualizing Competence for Mentally Impaired Appellants: Beginning of a Blueprint for More Client-Centered Criminal Appeals Practices (article - working title).

Finding Power Fighting Power (or The Perpetual Motion Machine) (essay).

Lady Vols Call the Shots in Full-Court Press: Judge Anna Moscowitz Kross and Her All-Woman Auxiliary of Criminal Court Case Workers (essay – working title).

The New Judicial Activism: Advancing Criminal Court Reform by Encouraging Law School Curricular Change (essay – working title).

March 7, 2008