Please Welcome Guest Blogger Julia Simon-Kerr

Please welcome Julia Simon-Kerr as a guest blogger for the next month or so. Professor Simon-Kerr  is an Associate Professor of Law and the Ralph and Doris Hansmann Scholar at the University of Connecticut School of Law. After graduating from Wesleyan University, she wrote and edited children’s books for Harper Collins in New York before going to Yale Law School, where she was the Executive Editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. After finishing law school, she was a clerk for Justice Jaynee LaVecchia of the Supreme Court of New Jersey before completing a clerkship for the Judge Kermit V. Lipez of the First Circuit. After serving as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, Professor Simon-Kerr started her current job in 2012. 

Professor Simon-Kerr‘s publications include:

•Note, Unchaste and Incredible: The Use of Gendered Conceptions of Honor in Impeachment, 117 YALE LAW JOURNAL 1854 (2008) (which I discussed here

 •Moral Turpitude, 2012 Utah L. Rev. 1001 (2012);

•A Simple Theory of Complex Valuation, 113 Mich. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2014) (with Anthony J. Casey

•Systemic Lying, 56 William & Mary L. Rev. (forthcoming 2015).

Her posts will be signed -JSK.

-CM