Faculty

Deborah Tuerkheimer

Deborah Tuerkheimer joined the DePaul University College of Law faculty in 2009. She teaches Criminal Law, Domestic Violence, and Feminist Jurisprudence. She was previously a professor at the University of Maine School of Law, where she also taught Criminal Procedure and Evidence. Her most recent article, “Judging Sex,” is forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review. She is a co-author of West’s FEMINIST JURISPRUDENCE casebook. Tuerkheimer is also the author of SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME, a monograph to be published by Oxford University Press. Professor Tuerkheimer’s article, “The Next Innocence Project: Shaken Baby Syndrome and the Criminal Courts,” appeared in a 2009 issue of the Washington University Law Review, and received national and international attention. Tuerkheimer has also published a number of articles addressing how the U.S. Supreme Court’s transformation of the Confrontation Clause uniquely impacts the prosecution of domestic violence. Her scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, Indiana Law Journal, North Carolina Law Review, Arizona Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Alabama Law Review, Texas Law Review on-line, and the Op-Ed page of the New York Times. Tuerkheimer earned her undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Harvard College and her JD from Yale. After clerking for Alaska Supreme Court Justice Jay Rabinowitz, Tuerkheimer 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.

Education

B.A., Harvard University; J.D., Yale Law School