Kim Taylor-Thompson

About the Author

Kim Taylor-Thompson teaches courses related to criminal law and community and criminal defense. Her teaching and scholarship focus on the impact of race and gender in public policy—particularly criminal and juvenile justice policy—and the need to prepare lawyers to meet the demands of practice in and on behalf of subordinated communities. In 2012, Taylor-Thompson received the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award. Taylor-Thompson has recently returned from leave, having served for three years as the chief executive officer of Duke Corporate Education, ranked by Financial Times as the #1 global provider of customized executive education. She worked with Fortune 500 companies and governments and taught in numerous programs focusing on translating and executing strategy and leading in complex environments. Prior to joining NYU School of Law, Taylor-Thompson was an associate professor of law at Stanford, where she received the John Hurlburt Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Outstanding Teaching Award. Before academia, Taylor-Thompson spent a decade at the D.C. Public Defender Service, ultimately serving as its director. She is a frequent moderator of Socratic dialogues. Taylor-Thompson received her J.D. from Yale Law School and her B.A. from Brown University.

Publication in RLSC: Minority Rule: Redefining the Age of Criminality, 38 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 143 (2014).

Adam Saper

About the Author:

Adam is originally from East Lansing, Michigan and has recently completed his tenure as an Article Selection Editor on the RLSC Board.  He first witnessed the atrocities of the juvenile justice system while volunteering as a tutor in after-school programs in New Orleans during college.  Adam returned to New Orleans during his first summer in law school to intern with Juvenile Regional Services (now the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights).  This work further exposed him to the myriad problems facing youth who are dragged into the criminal legal system.  At the same time, Adam found a mentor in JRS’s tireless executive director, Josh Perry (’07).  Returning to NYU, Adam sought out and continued to study with renowned juvenile defenders, and long-time clinical faculty, Mary Guggenheim and Randy Hertz.  These mentors, and more, provided both the inspiration and the academic grounding for Adam’s forthcoming publication, Juvenile Remorselessness: An unconstitutional sentencing consideration.  Adam is energized to pursue a career in public defense and is thrilled to be publishing with RLSC.

Publication in RLSC: Juvenile Remorselessness: An Unconstitutional Sentencing Consideration, 38 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 99 (2014).

Mae C. Quinn

About the Author

Professor Mae C. Quinn is an expert in criminal and juvenile justice system issues. Her past writing has explored a wide-range of important legal topics, including the modern problem-solving court movement, holistic criminal defense advocacy, public citizen lawyering, and applied feminist legal theory and history. She continues to research legal and ethical issues facing defense counsel, as well as the role of women lawyers in historic and contemporary legal movements. Her scholarship has been published widely in law reviews, and she is currently working on two books―one relating to feminist legal realism, the other focusing on the legacy of Judge Anna Moscowitz Kross. In addition to her scholarship and classroom teaching, Professor Quinn co-directs the school’s Civil Justice Clinic, where she developed a youth advocacy curriculum and supervises clinic students on juvenile delinquency and education law cases. The past recipient of awards recognizing excellence in teaching and professional achievement, she also previously received a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant to assist in clinical legal education and juvenile justice efforts in Honduras. Before becoming a law professor, she clerked for the Hon. Jack B. Weinstein, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York; served as an associate counsel focusing on federal white-collar criminal cases with the New York City firm of Morvillo, Abramowitz; and represented hundreds of indigent criminal defendants as a public defender and appellate counsel, personally briefing and arguing approximately 40 reported criminal appeals.

Publication in RLSC: From Turkey Trot to Twitter: Policing Puberty, Purity, and Sex-Positivity, 38 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 51 (2014).

 

Megan Annitto

About the Author

Professor Annitto’s expertise is in the areas of criminal procedure and juvenile justice. Her research focuses on the role of age and youth in the criminal justice system, such as the effects of youth on legal questions of consent, waiver of rights, and rehabilitation. She has previously written about the prosecution of minors for prostitution, advocating for a more legally coherent and rational approach by courts and legislatures. She has also written about the dramatic absence of access to appeals for juveniles charged with crimes and its effect on access to justice and the development of the law. Her articles have been published or are forthcoming in the Yale Law and Policy Review, University of Miami Law Review, and the New York University Review of Law and Social Change. Her work has also been included in the National Juvenile Defender Center Leadership Summit Resource Guide. Her research can be accessed here.

As a public defender for juveniles at the Legal Aid Society of New York, Professor Annitto represented numerous youth, specializing in issues common for young females in the juvenile justice system. She also advocated for community based alternatives to detention. Later, as a legislative attorney, she continued to focus on improving conditions and services for vulnerable youth in New York. Before joining Charlotte School of Law, Professor Annitto was the Director of the Center for Law and Public Service at the West Virginia University College of Law. She previously served as a law clerk to Judge Anne E. Thompson, United States District Court in the District of New Jersey. Following her clerkship, she worked at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University before becoming a public defender. Professor Annitto received her law degree and Master of Social Work from the Catholic University of America where she graduated magna cum laude. She received a B.A. from Boston College.

Professor Annitto remains active in juvenile justice issues and was appointed in 2011 by the Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court to serve on a state commission to review conditions of confinement and rehabilitation. She is also a Policy Advisor to the Polaris Project in Washington, D.C. on legislative issues related to trafficking of minors and has served as a Board Member of the Mid Atlantic Juvenile Defender Center (a subsidiary of the National Juvenile Defender Center).

Publication in RLSC: Consent Searches of Minors, 38 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 1 (2014).