Anne Coughlin

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|known_for =Feminist jurisprudence, criminal law

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|occupation = Law professor

|alma_mater = Tufts University (BA)
Columbia University (MA)
New York University (JD)

|nationality = American

|employer = University of Virginia School of Law

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Anne M. Coughlin is the Lewis F. Powell Jr., Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.{{cite web |url=http://www.law.virginia.edu/lawweb/Faculty.nsf/FHPbI/1155472 |title=Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law |publisher=Law.virginia.edu |date= |access-date=2013-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515032919/http://www.law.virginia.edu/lawweb/faculty.nsf/fhpbi/1155472 |archive-date=2013-05-15 |url-status=dead }}

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 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.{{cite news |last1=Coughlin |first1=Anne M. |title=Protecting Women Is Not 'Victim Blaming' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/10/23/young-women-drinking-and-rape/protecting-women-is-not-victim-blaming |access-date=July 24, 2020 |work=New York Times |date=October 23, 2013}}{{cite news |last1=Kelly |first1=Jane |title=Q&A: UVA Law Expert Dissects Landmark Supreme Court Ruling on LGBTQ Rights |url=https://news.virginia.edu/content/qa-uva-law-expert-dissects-landmark-supreme-court-ruling-lgbtq-rights |access-date=July 24, 2020 |work=UVA Today |publisher=University of Virginia |date=June 16, 2020}} She is the coauthor of a widely used casebook for first year criminal law courses.{{cite web|url=http://www.abebooks.com/9781599413594/Criminal-Law-3d-University-Casebooks-1599413590/plp |title=9781599413594: Criminal Law, 3d (University Casebooks) - AbeBooks - Richard J. Bonnie, Anne Coughlin, Jr. John C. Jeffries, Peter W. Low: 1599413590 |publisher=AbeBooks |date=2010-05-17 |access-date=2013-05-19}} She is also the author of a prominent law review article on battered woman syndrome.{{cite journal |last1=Coughlin |first1=Anne |year=1994 |title=Excusing Women |journal=California Law Review |volume=82 |issue=1 |pages=1–93 |doi= 10.2307/3480849|jstor=3480849 }}

Coughlin is notable outside of academia for her leading role in a lawsuit against the Pentagon's policy excluding women from combat roles.{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2013/05/15/184042652/women-in-combat-obstacles-remain-as-exclusion-policy-ends |title=Women In Combat: Obstacles Remain As Exclusion Policy Ends |publisher=NPR |date=2013-05-15 |access-date=2013-05-19}} Some commentators have credited this lawsuit with influencing the Department of Defense's 2013 decision to reverse this policy.{{cite web |url=http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/news/2013_spr/pitcher_update.htm |title=After Challenging Military Ban on Women in Combat, Molly Pitcher Project's Dreams Are Realized |publisher=Law.virginia.edu |date=2013-05-15 |access-date=2013-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619154228/http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/news/2013_spr/pitcher_update.htm |archive-date=2013-06-19 |url-status=dead }}

=Publications=

{{cite journal |last1=Coughlin |first1=Anne |year=1994 |title=Excusing Women |journal=California Law Review |volume=82 |issue=1 |pages=1–93 |doi= 10.2307/3480849|jstor=3480849 }}.
{{Citation| last =Coughlin| first =Anne| title =Regulating the Self: Autobiographical Performances in Outsider Scholarship| journal =Virginia Law Review| volume =81| issue =5| pages =1229–1340| year =1995| jstor =1073505| doi =10.2307/1073505}}.
{{Citation| last =Coughlin| first =Anne| title =Of White Slaves and Domestic Hostages| journal =Buffalo Criminal Law Review| volume =1| issue =1| pages =109–136| year =1997| jstor=10.1525/nclr.1997.1.1.109| doi=10.1525/nclr.1997.1.1.109}}.
{{Citation| last =Coughlin| first =Anne| title =Sex and Guilt| journal =Virginia Law Review| volume =84| issue =1| pages =1–46| year =1998| jstor =1073806| doi =10.2307/1073806}}.

References

External links

[https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/amc6z/1155472 Faculty Site at University of Virginia]
[https://www.c-span.org/person/?annecoughlin Appearances on C-Span]

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Category:Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni

Category:Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni

Category:New York University School of Law alumni

Category:Vanderbilt University Law School faculty

Category:University of Virginia School of Law faculty

Category:Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States

Category:American scholars of constitutional law

Category:20th-century American lawyers

Category:21st-century American lawyers

Category:American legal scholars