Polisher Family Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law. J.D., University of Pennsylvania. A.B., Brown University.
Professor Kit Kinports joined Penn State Law in 2006 from the University of Illinois College of Law. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she served as editor-in-chief of theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law Review, Professor Kinports clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Harry Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before entering the teaching profession, she practiced law with Ennis, Friedman, Bersoff & Ewing in Washington, D.C. for several years.
Professor Kinports is a leading scholar of feminist jurisprudence, criminal law and federalism. Her recent work includes an article entitled “Criminal Procedure in Perspective,” published in 2007 by the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, and an article forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law entitled “Veteran Police Officers and Three-Dollar Steaks: The Subjective/Objective Dimensions of Probable Cause and Reasonable Suspicion.” New editions of both casebooks she co-authors,Criminal Law: Cases and Materials and Constitutional Litigation Under Section 1983, were also published in 2008. Professor Kinports received several teaching awards at the University of Illinois, including the John E. Cribbet Excellence in Teaching Award, the highest mark of teaching achievement awarded by that institution.
Scholarly Dialogues Series
Professor Kinports presented during the Penn State Law Review Scholarly Dialogues Series on April 12, 2010.