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Susan L. Kay

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Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs .Clinical Professor of Law

Voice: (615) 322-4964
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: susan.kay@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 114

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Research Interest(s)

Criminal law, clinical legal education, professional responsibility, evidence

Education

J.D. Vanderbilt
B.A. Williams College

Biography

Susan L. Kay has headed the law school's clinical and experiential legal education program since 2001, having joined the clinical faculty in 1980. In addition to teaching in the Criminal Practice Clinic, Professor Kay supervises the Trial Advocacy courses, and teaches courses on Professional Responsibility, Criminal Law, Evidence and Externships. She is active in many professional and service activities and currently serves as immediate-past president of the Clinical Legal Education Association, a national association that represents more than 600 law faculty. Within the clinic, Professor Kay has conducted major public law litigation concerning jail overcrowding, inmates’ rights and juvenile justice. In 2007, Professor Kay completed an assignment as a court-appointed monitor in federal litigation challenging the state’s compliance with its responsibilities to children enrolled in the TennCare program. During 2005, Professor Kay served as co-reporter with Professor Emeritus Don Hall on the Tennessee Bar Association - Criminal Justice Section's study of effectiveness of counsel in death penalty cases. Recently, Professor Kay has been appointed by the Board of the Law School Admissions Council to chair a newly-created task-force on accommodations for test-takers with disabilities.

Representative Publications

Books

  • Report of The Tennessee Bar Association Study Committee on Effective Assistance of Counsel in Death Penalty Cases (co-reporter with Donald Hall)
  • Tennessee Evidence: 2005 Courtroom Manual (2004) (with G. Weissenberger)
  • Clinical Anthology: Readings For Live Client Clinics (1997) (co-editor with A. Hurder, F. Bloch and S. Brooks)

Articles

  • "Criminal Court Practice," Aids Benchbook (National Judicial College and ABA, 1991)
  • The Constitutional Dimensions of an Inmate's Right to Health Care (monograph). Published by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (1991)
  • "Implications of Prison Privatization for the Conduct of Prisoner Litigation Under 42 U.S.C. ยง 1983," 40 Vanderbilt Law Review 867 (1987)


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