Linda Ross Meyer came to the faculty in 1994 from Vanderbilt Law School, where she taught for two years after clerking for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at the United States Supreme Court. Her publications are primarily in criminal law and legal theory. Her book, "The Justice of Mercy," will be available in October 2010 from Michigan University Press. She regularly teaches torts, criminal law, jurisprudence, theories of punishment, a Supreme Court seminar, and animal law. She enjoys hiking, birding, kayaking, playing tennis, singing, and writing for children.

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CV

http://webspace.quinnipiac.edu/meyer/resume.doc

"The Merciful State," in Forgiveness, Mercy and Clemency, (Austin Sarat and Nasser Hussain, eds., 2007)

Forgiveness and Public Trust, 27 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1515 (2000).

Nothing We Say Matters: Teague and New Rules, 61 U. Chi. L. Rev. 423 (1994)

Catastrophe: Plowing Up the Ground of Reason, in Law and Catastrophe, (Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey, eds. 2007)

When Reasonable Minds Differ, 71 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1467 (1996)

???The New Revenge and the Old Retribution: Insights from Monte Cristo,??? 31 Studies in Law and Society 119 (Austin Sarat and Patricia Ewick eds., 2004)

Unruly Rights, 22 Cardozo L Rev 1 (2000)

???Are Constitutional Rights Personal???? 6 Legal Theory 405 (2000)(symposium issue)

Eternal Remorse, in Toward a Critique of Guilt: Perspectives from Law and the Humanities (Matthew Anderson ed.), 36 Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 141 (2005).

She Who Sings, Prays Twice (Lulu, 2007)(Young Adult Fiction available on Amazon.com)