Home Page for Anne M. Coughlin

Download hi-res photo

E-Mail:
amc6z@virginia.edu

Phone:
(434) 924-3520

Office: WB387

Secretary/Assistant:
Delores Clatterbuck

Subjects:
Criminal law and procedure, feminist jurisprudence, rape, women's issues, criminal investigation, gender and the law

Anne M. Coughlin

Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Professor of Law
Joel B. Piassick Research Professor of Law
J.D., New York University School of Law, 1984
M.A., Columbia University, 1979
B.A., Tufts University, 1978

Anne M. Coughlin is Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. She taught at Vanderbilt Law School from 1991-95, and she joined the University of Virginia faculty in 1996 after visiting during the 1995-96 academic year. Her primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, feminist jurisprudence and law and humanities. She is co-author of a casebook on criminal law, and she has written a number of articles exploring the intersections among criminal law, criminal procedure and feminist theory, as well as essays concerning the connections between law and literature.

In 1999, Coughlin received an All-University Teaching Award, one of the University's highest honors for excellence in teaching, research and service. She is co-chair of the National Association of Women Lawyers Supreme Court Evaluation Committee and of its Amicus Committee. Coughlin received her J.D. from New York University School of Law. At NYU Law School, Coughlin won numerous awards, and she served as managing editor for the New York University Law Review. After graduation, she clerked for Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Publications

Book:

Criminal Law (with Richard J. Bonnie, John C. Jeffries Jr., & Peter W. Low) (Foundation Press, 1997; 2d ed. 2004).

Articles:

“Representing the Forbidden,” 90 Cal. L. Rev. 2143 (2002).

"Whose Honor? Whose Revenge?: Comments on Figueredo's 'Blame, Retribution and Deterrence'," 8 Va. J. Soc. Pol’y & L. 253 (2000).

"I’m in the Mood for Law" (reviewing Binder & Weisberg, Literary Criticisms of Law), 53 Stan. L. Rev. 209 (2000).

"Writing for Justice Powell," 99 Colum. L. Rev. 541 (1999).

"C’est Moi," 83 Minn. L. Rev. 1619 (1999).

"Sex and Guilt," 84 Va. L. Rev. 1 (1998), abstract available online from SSRN.

"Sex and Self-Governance," 29 McGeorge L. Rev. 17 (1997) .

"Of White Slaves and Domestic Hostages," 1 Buff. Crim. L. Rev. 109 (1997), abstract available online from SSRN.

"Regulating the Self: Autobiographical Performances in Outsider Scholarship," 81 Va. L. Rev. 1229 (1995).

"Excusing Women," 82 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (1994).

Current Courses

All Courses

In the Media