| Education:
J.D., University of Pennsylvania
A.B., Brown University
In 2006 Professor Kit Kinports joined Penn State
Dickinson from the University of Illinois College
of Law. After graduating magna cum laude from the
University of Pennsylvania Law School where she served
as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania
Law Review, Professor Kinports clerked for Judge
Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit and Justice Harry Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme
Court. Before entering the teaching profession, she
practiced law with Ennis, Friedman, Bersoff &
Ewing in Washington, D.C. for several years.
Professor Kinports is a leading scholar of feminist
jurisprudence, criminal law and federalism. Her recent
work includes an article entitled "Criminal Procedure
in Perspective," published in 2007 by the
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology,
and two invited symposium pieces — one on the
topic of rape and mens rea and the other
on battered women's self-defense claims. New editions
of both casebooks she co-authors, Criminal Law:
Cases and Materials and Constitutional Litigation
Under Section 1983, were also published in 2008.
Professor Kinports received several teaching awards
at the University of Illinois, including the John
E. Cribbet Excellence in Teaching Award, the highest
mark of teaching achievement awarded by that institution.
While at Illinois, she also supervised an externship
program with the Illinois Clemency Project for Battered
Women and served on the board of directors for the
local battered women’s shelter.
Contact Information:
E-mail:
kxk47@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 865-8907
Principal Office: University Park
Selected Publications:
"Veteran Police Officers and Three-Dollar Steaks: The Subjective/Objective Dimensions of Probable Cause and Reasonable Suspicion," University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, 2009 (forthcoming), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1425781
"Diminishing Probable Cause and Minimalist Searches," Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 2009, available at
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1281645
Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (3d ed. 2008), with S. Saltzburg, J. Diamond, T. Morawetz & R. Little.
Constitutional Litigation Under Section 1983 (2d ed. 2008), with M. Brown.
"Criminal Procedure in Perspective," Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, 2007, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1010441
"So Much Activity, So Little Change: A Reply to the Critics of Battered Women's Self-Defense," St. Louis University Public Law Review, 2004.
"Rape and Force: The Forgotten Mens Rea," Buffalo Criminal Law Review, 2001.
"Implied Waiver After Seminole Tribe," Minnesota Law Review, 1998.
"The Buck Does Not Stop Here: Supervisory Liability in Section 1983 Cases," University of Illinois Law Review, 1997.
"Orders of Protection in Domestic Violence Cases: An Empirical Assessment of the Impact of the Reform Statutes,"
with K. Fischer, Texas Journal of Women and the Law, 1993.
"Habeas Corpus, Qualified Immunity, and Crystal Balls: Predicting the Course of Constitutional Law," Arizona Law Review, 1991.
"Evidence Engendered," University of Illinois Law Review, 1991.
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