Faculty

Jennifer Collins

Professor of Law

Phone: 336.758.3852
Email: collinjm@wfu.edu

 Books

  • Privilege or Punish? Criminal Justice and The Challenge of Family Ties, (co-authored with Dan Markel & Ethan Leib; Oxford University Press 2009). 

Articles and Essays

  • (When) Should Family Status Matter in the Criminal Justice System?, forthcoming in New Criminal Law Review (2010) (coauthored with Dan Markel and Ethan Leib).
  • Criminal Law Comes Home to a Family, in Criminal Law Conversations (Oxford University Press 2009)
  • Eight is Enough, Northwestern Colloquy (May 11, 2009) (co-authored with Naomi Cahn)
  • Punishing Family Status, 88 Boston Univ. L. Rev. 1327 (2008) (co-authored with Dan Markel & Ethan Leib)
  • Lady Madonna, Children at Your Feet: The Criminal Justice System’s Romanticization of the Parent-Child Relationship, 93 Iowa L. Rev. 131 (2007)
  • Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Family Ties, 2007 Illinois L. Rev. 1147 (co-authored with Dan Markel & Ethan Leib) 
  • Crime and Parenthood: The Uneasy Case for Prosecuting Negligent Parents, 100 Northwestern Univ. L. Rev. 807 (2006)
  • And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: Sharing Grand Jury Information with the Intelligence Community Under the USA PATRIOT Act, 39 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1261 (2002).

Works In Progress

  • Fathers Who Kill Their Children
  • Rethinking Family Status and Criminal Justice, 119 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 2010) (with Dan Markel and Ethan Leib).