Mae C. Quinn
Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Civil Justice Clinic
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 538
Phone: (314) 935-6088
E-mail: mquinn@wulaw.wustl.edu
Assistant: Sherrie Malone - (314) 935-5989
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Courses Taught
Civil Justice Clinic
Criminal Law
Education
B.A., 1991, State University of New York at Albany
J.D., 1995, University of Texas
LL.M., 2001, Georgetown University
Profile
Mae Quinn, a national leader in clinical legal education, specializes in juvenile defense representation and problem-solving courts. Her current research focuses on ethical and legal issues relating to the defense of the accused, in part comparing contemporary criminal court movements with those of the past and examining the role of women lawyers in such movements.
Before joining the Washington University Law faculty in 2009, Quinn was a member of the University of Tennessee College of Law since 2005. At the University of Tennessee, she taught in the Advocacy Clinic, where she supervised students serving as criminal and juvenile defense counsel, handling landlord-tenant cases, and representing unemployment benefits claimants. She received the 2009 Harold C. Warner teaching award, an honor bestowed annually by the University of Tennessee College of Law student body. In 2008 she was honored with a University of Tennessee Woman of Achievement Chancellor’s Award.
Quinn has served as chair of the Juvenile Justice Committee for the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and has been active in other groups seeking to reform Tennessee’s Juvenile Justice System. She also has taught as an E. Barrett Prettyman clinical fellow in Georgetown University’s Criminal Justice Clinic and as an adjunct professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. In 2008 she was awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant to travel to Honduras to assist in clinical legal education and juvenile justice efforts in that country.
Quinn previously practiced for several years as a New York City public defender. During that time, she represented indigent, criminal defendants in trials, appeals, and post-conviction proceedings. She also was an associate with a prominent white-collar criminal defense law firm and helped oversee a project related to the implications of problem-solving courts for the Center for Court Innovation. Additionally, she clerked for Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
