BACKGROUND
- J.D., magna cum laude, Indiana University School of Law-Indianapoils, 2002
- M.L.S., University at Albany, 1993
- M.A., hons., University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1992
EXPERTISE
- Victims' rights
- Restorative Justice
- Federal Courts
EDUCATION
- J.D., magna cum laude, Indiana University School of Law-Indianapoils, 2002
- M.L.S., University at Albany, 1993
- M.A., hons., University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1992
TEACHING and SCHOLARSHIP
- Constitutional Law
- Civil Procedure
- Civil Rights Litigation
- Victims' Rights
- Restorative Justice
PUBLICATIONS
LAW REVIEW ARTICLES
Mary Margaret Giannini, Criminal Restitution: An Inappropriate Application of Joint and Several Liability in Child Pornogrpahy Possesion Cases (work in progress)
Mary Margaret Giannini, Slow Acid Drips and Evidentiary Nightmares: Smoothing Out the Rough Justice of Child Pornography Restitution with a Presumed Damages Theory, 49 Am. Crim. L. Rev. ____ (2012)
Mary Margaret Giannini, Redemming an Empty Promise: Procedural Justice, The Crime Victims' Rights Act, and the Victim's Right to be Reasonably Protected from the Accused, 78 Tenn. L. Rev. 47 (2010)
Mary Margaret Giannini, Equal Rights for Equal Rites?: Victim Allocution, Defendant Allocution and the Crime Victims' Rights Act, 26 Yale L. & Poly. Rev. 431 (2008)
Mary Margaret Giannini, The Swinging Pendulum of Victims Rights: The Enforceability of Indiana's Victims' Rights Laws, 34 Ind. L. Rev. 1157 (2001)
PRESENTATIONS
Panelist: Mayor's Victims' Assistance Advisory Council, FALL FORUM -- UNDERSTANDING VICTIMS' RIGHTS (Jacksonville, FL, September 2011)
Presenter: South Eastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, NEW SCHOLARS PROGRAM, Slow Acid Drips and Evidentiary Nightmares: Smoothing Out the Rough Justice of Child Pornography Restitution with a Presumed Damages Theory (Hilton Head, SC, July 2011)
Presenter: National Crime Victim Law Institute, Annual Conference, DUE PROCESS FOR VICTIMS: MEANINFUL RIGHTS IN EVERY CASE, Redeeming an Empty Promise: Procedural Justice, the Crime Victims' Rights Act, and the Victim's Right to be Reasonably Protected from the Accused (Portland, OR, June 2010)
Co-Presenter: Institute for Law Teaching & Learning, Summer Conference, Beyond the Black Letter: Promoting the Learning Process Through Continual Assessment in the First Year Curriculum (with Professor Jana R. McCreary), (Topeka, KS, June 2010)
Invited guest lecturer: Judge Stephanie K. Semour Honorary Lecture, Searching for Reasonableness: Procedural Justice and the Victim's Right to be Reasonably Protected from the Accused (Tulsa, OK, April 2009)
Presenter: The Second Big Ten Aspiring Scholars' Conference, ELIMINATING, CREATING OR IGNORING DISADVANTAGES UNDER THE LAW, In Search of a Theory for Victim Allocution Sentencing Rights Under the Crime Victims' Rights Act (Bloomington, IN, August 2007)
Panelist: 6th Annual Norman Amaker Public Interest Law & Social Justice Retreat, HOLISTIC LAWYERING: EMPOWERING CLIENTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE, The Crime Victims' Rights Act: Can the Criminal Justice System Respond Holistically to Crime Victims? (Indianapolis, IN, Feb. 2007)
