Biography
Professor Quinn’s scholarly research focuses on issues regarding the ways the law can be used to facilitate the well-being of children and families, both within the United States and across national borders. Her work and has been published in law reviews such as the Duke Law Journal, Emory Law Journal, Tulane Law Review, and the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender.
Professor Quinn teaches Civil Procedure, Family Law, International Law, and the Supreme Court Seminar, and she has also taught Property. She incorporates generative AI into her Civil Procedure and Supreme Court Seminar courses in order to help students learn to use and critically evaluate these tools. She is the founding president of Drexel Kline’s Order of the Coif chapter.
Before joining Drexel, Professor Quinn was an attorney-adviser in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, where she received a Meritorious Honor Award. Earlier, she was an associate and then counsel at O’Melveny & Myers, a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General, and a law clerk to Judge Paul V. Niemeyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
She received her J.D. summa cum laude from Duke University School of Law, where she was executive editor of the Duke Law Journal, earned the Willis Smith Award for the highest academic average in her class, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. She received her A.B. cum laude from Dartmouth College.