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Corinna Barrett Lain

Professor Lain teaches a variety of courses emanating from her experience as a former prosecutor, including criminal procedure, evidence, children and the law, and a domestic violence seminar. She also teaches the first-year civil procedure course. A recipient of the University’s 2006 Distinguished Educator Award, Professor Lain has emerged as one of the Law School’s premier instructors. Her scholarship, which challenges conventional wisdom about the role and impact of the Supreme Court in the criminal procedure and death penalty areas, has been reviewed in glowing terms by some of the nation’s brightest and most respected legal minds. Professor Lain graduated summa cum laude from the College of William and Mary in 1992, and received her J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1996, where she was elected to Order of the Coif.