Anne Coughlin
Anne Coughlin | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Tufts University (BA) Columbia University (MA) New York University (JD) |
| Occupation | Law professor |
| Employer | University of Virginia School of Law |
| Known for | Feminist jurisprudence, criminal law |
Anne M. Coughlin is the Lewis F. Powell Jr., Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.[1]
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 the 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 is notable outside of academia for her leading role in a lawsuit against the Pentagon's policy excluding women from combat roles.[2] Some commentators have credited this lawsuit with influencing the Department of Defense's 2013 decision to reverse this policy.[3]
See also
Publications
- Coughlin, Anne (1994). "Excusing Women". California Law Review. 82 (1): 1–93. doi:10.2307/3480849. JSTOR 3480849..
- Coughlin, Anne (1995), "Regulating the Self: Autobiographical Performances in Outsider Scholarship", Virginia Law Review, 81 (5): 1229–1340, doi:10.2307/1073505, JSTOR 1073505.
- Coughlin, Anne (1997), "Of White Slaves and Domestic Hostages", Buffalo Criminal Law Review, 1 (1): 109–136, doi:10.1525/nclr.1997.1.1.109, JSTOR 10.1525/nclr.1997.1.1.109.
- Coughlin, Anne (1998), "Sex and Guilt", Virginia Law Review, 84 (1): 1–46, doi:10.2307/1073806, JSTOR 1073806.
References
- ↑ "Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law". Law.virginia.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
- ↑ "Women In Combat: Obstacles Remain As Exclusion Policy Ends". NPR. 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
- ↑ "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.
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- Living people
- Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- New York University School of Law alumni
- Vanderbilt University Law School faculty
- University of Virginia School of Law faculty
- Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
- American scholars of constitutional law
- 20th-century American lawyers
- 21st-century American lawyers
- American legal scholars
- American women legal scholars
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women