Anne Coughlin

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Anne Coughlin
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Tufts University (BA)
Columbia University (MA)
New York University (JD)
OccupationLaw professor
Employer University of Virginia School of Law
Known forFeminist jurisprudence, criminal law

Anne M. Coughlin is the Lewis F. Powell Jr., Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. [1]

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Early life and education

Coughlin graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in English in 1978. She then completed her M.A. in English at Columbia University in 1979 before entering law school. She earned her J.D. at New York University School of Law, graduating in 1984. At NYU, Coughlin served as managing editor of the New York University Law Review.

Career

After law school, Coughlin clerked for Judge Jon O. Newman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then for Justice Lewis F. Powell of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Coughlin began her academic career at Vanderbilt Law School, teaching there from 1991 to 1995. She joined the faculty at the University of Virginia in 1996, after having served as a visiting professor during the 1995-96 academic year. Coughlin's research focuses on criminal law and procedure and feminist jurisprudence. [2] [3] She is the coauthor of a widely used casebook for first year criminal law courses. [4] She is also the author of a prominent law review article on battered woman syndrome. [5]

Coughlin is notable outside of academia for her leading role in a lawsuit against the Pentagon's policy excluding women from combat roles. [6] Some commentators have credited this lawsuit with influencing the Department of Defense's 2013 decision to reverse this policy. [7]

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References

  1. "Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law". Law.virginia.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
  2. Coughlin, Anne M. (October 23, 2013). "Protecting Women Is Not 'Victim Blaming'". New York Times. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  3. Kelly, Jane (June 16, 2020). "Q&A: UVA Law Expert Dissects Landmark Supreme Court Ruling on LGBTQ Rights". UVA Today. University of Virginia. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  4. "9781599413594: Criminal Law, 3d (University Casebooks) - AbeBooks - Richard J. Bonnie, Anne Coughlin, Jr. John C. Jeffries, Peter W. Low: 1599413590". AbeBooks. 2010-05-17. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
  5. Coughlin, Anne (1994). "Excusing Women". California Law Review. 82 (1): 1–93. doi:10.2307/3480849. JSTOR   3480849.
  6. "Women In Combat: Obstacles Remain As Exclusion Policy Ends". NPR. 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
  7. "After Challenging Military Ban on Women in Combat, Molly Pitcher Project's Dreams Are Realized". Law.virginia.edu. 2013-05-15. Archived from the original on 2013-06-19. Retrieved 2013-05-19.