Deborah Tuerkheimer
Class of 1967 James B. Haddad Professor of Law
SSRN Author Page | Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Related Links
CREDIBLE: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers
Assistant
Jane Brock
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-8544
Assistant Email
janebrock@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Deborah Tuerkheimer joined the Northwestern Law faculty in 2014 after serving as a professor at DePaul University College of Law since 2009 and the University of Maine School of Law since 2002. Professor Tuerkheimer received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College and her JD from Yale. She teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, evidence, and feminist legal theory. Her book, CREDIBLE: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers, was published in October 2021. In 2014, Oxford University Press published her book, Flawed Convictions: “Shaken Baby Syndrome” and the Inertia of Injustice. She is also a co-author of the casebook Feminist Jurisprudence: Cases and Materials and the author of numerous articles on sexual violence and domestic violence. After clerking for Alaska Supreme Court Justice Jay Rabinowitz, she served for five years as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office, where she specialized in domestic violence prosecution. In 2015, Tuerkheimer was elected to the American Law Institute, an esteemed group of judges, lawyers, and legal scholars dedicated to the development of the law.
Areas of Expertise
- Evidence
- Feminist Legal Theory
- Criminal Law
- Gender Violence
Selected Publications
- Beyond #MeToo, 94 New York University Law Review 1146 (2019).
- Criminal Justice and the Mattering of Lives, 116 Michigan Law Review 1145 (2018).
- Incredible Women: Sexual Violence and the Credibility Discount, 166 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1 (2017).
- Rape On and Off Campus, 65 Emory Law Journal 1 (2015).
- SlutWalking in the Shadow of the Law, 98 Minnesota Law Review 1453 (2014).
- Flawed Convictions: “shaken Baby Syndrome” and the Inertia of Injustice (Oxford University Press 2014).
- Feminist Jurisprudence: Cases and Materials, 5th ed. (2018) (with Kimberly Yuracko, Cynthia Bowman & Laura Rosenbury).
Education
- AB with honors, Harvard University
- JD, Yale Law School
Prior Appointments
- Class of 1940 Research Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
- Associate Dean for Faculty Development, 2013-2014, DePaul University College of Law
- Professor of Law, 2009-2014, DePaul University College of Law
- Professor of Law, 2007-2009, University of Maine School of Law
- Associate Professor of Law, 2002-2007, University of Maine School of Law