Julia Simon-Kerr

 Julia Simon-Kerr received her JD in 2008 from Yale Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. Following her graduation, she served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Jaynee LaVecchia of the New Jersey Supreme Court and Judge Kermit V. Lipez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Before attending law school, she edited and wrote children's books in the mass market division of a large publishing house. She graduated in 2002 from Wesleyan University where she received a BA with honors in English, earned the English department's Camp Prize for Excellence in English Literature, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Julia's research interests include evidence, criminal law and procedure, civil procedure, law and gender, family law, education law, state and local government law, immigration law and law and literature.