Vanderbilt University Law School
Terry A. Maroney
Assistant Professor of Law
Voice: (615) 343-3491
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: terry.maroney@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 288
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Area(s) of Expertise
Criminal law, juvenile justice, law and emotion
Research Interest(s)
Criminal law, juvenile justice, law and human behavior, law and emotion, law and neuroscience
Education
J.D. New York University
B.A. Oberlin College
Biography
Terry A. Maroney specializes in criminal law and juvenile justice, drawing heavily on interdisciplinary scholarship. Professor Maroney also is a leader in the emerging interdisciplinary movement exploring the role of emotion in law. She co-organized a recent conference, "Law and the Emotions: New Directions in Scholarship," held at Berkeley Law. Professor Maroney’s most recent article, “Emotional Common Sense as Constitutional Law,” will appear in the Vanderbilt Law Review (forthcoming, 2009). She has authored two prior works on law and emotion: “Emotional Competence, ‘Rational Understanding', and the Criminal Defendant,” which appeared in the American Criminal Law Review (2006), and "Law and Emotion: A Proposed Taxonomy of an Emerging Field," which appeared in the peer-reviewed Law and Human Behavior (2006). Her other writings include a widely-cited note on hate crime, "The Struggle Against Hate Crime: Movement at a Crossroads," which was selected for inclusion in Structured Inequality in the United States: Discussions on the Continuing Relevance of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender. Professor Maroney joined Vanderbilt's law faculty in 2006 after serving as a Law Fellow at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Before her fellowship at USC, Professor Maroney was a Furman Fellow at New York University School of Law, a litigation associate at WilmerHale, and a Skadden Fellow at the Urban Justice Center. After earning her J.D. summa cum laude at New York University, she clerked for The Honorable Amalya L. Kearse, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She spent six years working as a rape crisis counselor, an HIV educator, and an advocate for crime victims at the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project after her graduation from Oberlin College.
Representative Publications
Articles
"Emotional Common Sense as Constitutional Law," Vanderbilt Law Review (forthcoming 2009)
“Emotional Competence, ‘Rational Understanding,' and the Criminal Defendant,” 43 American Criminal Law Review 1375 (2006)
“Law and Emotion: A Proposed Taxonomy of an Emerging Field,” 30 (2) Law and Human Behavior 119 (2006)
Note, “The Struggle Against Hate Crime: Movement at a Crossroads,” 73 New York University Law Review 564 (1998). Reprinted in Structured Inequality in the United States: Discussions on the Continuing Significance of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender 370 (Adalberto Aguirre, Jr. & David V. Baker eds., Prentice Hall, 2000)
“HIV and Same-Sex Domestic Violence” (with Bea Hanson), in Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change 97-110 (Beth Leventhal & Sandra E. Lundy, eds.) (1999)
“HIV and Hatred: Hazardous to Your Health,” 23(4) Health/PAC Bulletin 14-20 (1993)
“Psicología de la Oprimida: Un Estudio Psicosocial de dos Refugiadas Salvadoreñas en Costa Rica,” Estudios Centroamericanos 911 (October 1988)
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