Katherine Mims Crocker

Katherine Mims Crocker is a scholar of the federal courts, civil-rights litigation, constitutional law, and state and local-government law.  She has also taught courses on the Supreme Court, civil procedure, property, and judicial decision-making.  Professor Crocker has published papers (or has work forth-coming) in leading journals including the Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Virginia Law Re-view, and Washington University Law Review.  She is an affiliate of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center.

Before joining the Cornell Faculty, Professor Crocker taught at the Texas A&M University School of Law and William & Mary Law School.  She also served as the inaugural Faculty Director of the Texas A&M Center on the Structural Constitution, and she completed a fellowship at Duke Law School.  Before entering academia, she practiced law at McGuireWoods LLP in Richmond, Virginia, concen-trating on appellate litigation.

Professor Crocker clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.  She received her law degree from the University of Virginia, where she graduated first in her class and was an Articles Development Editor on the Virginia Law Review.  She earned her undergraduate degree cum laude from Harvard University.