Katherine Kruse | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Katherine Kruse
		Associate Professor of Law


		Phone: 702-895-2071 Email: kate.kruse@unlv.edu

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: B.A., Oberlin College, 1984 M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986 J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School, 1989

	Professor Kruse earned her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1989, graduating magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, and having served as an articles editor on the Wisconsin Law Review. She had previously earned an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.A. from Oberlin College. Professor Kruse clerked for United States District Court Judge Barbara B. Crabb, then chief judge for the Western District of Wisconsin. She spent eleven years teaching and practicing law at the Frank J. Remington Center, a clinical program at the University of Wisconsin Law School that provides legal assistance to state and federal prison inmates. Before coming to the Boyd School of Law, Professor Kruse was visiting professor and acting director of the Criminal Justice Clinic at American University Washington College of Law. Her research interests center around issues of lawyering and professionalism. She teaches Criminal Law, Professional Responsibility, Evidence, and Juvenile Justice Clinic.

	Areas of Expertise: Clinical Legal Education Criminal Law Legal Ethics

	Selected Publications: BOOKS Lawyers and Clients: Critical Issues in Interviewing and Counseling(forthcoming 2008) (with Robert D. Dinerstein, Stephen J. Ellmann, Isabelle R. Gunning and Ann C. Shalleck). LAW REVIEW ARTICLES The Human Dignity of Clients, 93 Cornell L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2008) (Symposium Essay on David Luban, Legal Ethics And Human Dignity). SSRN In re Gault and the Promise of Systemic Reform, 75 Tenn. L. Rev__ (forthcoming 2008). SSRN Lexis Westlaw Instituting Innocence Reform: The Wisconsin Experience, 2006 Wis. L. Rev. 645. SSRN Lexis Westlaw Hein Fortress in the Sand: The Plural Values of Client-Centered Representation, 12 Clinical L. Rev. 369 (2006). SSRN Lexis Westlaw Hein Lawyers, Justice and the Challenge of Moral Pluralism, 90 MINN. L. REV 389 (2005). SSRN Lexis Westlaw Hein --> More Publications (pdf)

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