Julia Simon-Kerr

Julia Simon-Kerr is a Maurice R. Greenberg Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the Evangeline Starr Professor of Law at University of Connecticut School of Law, where she has taught for more than 13 years and received multiple commendations for distinguished teaching. Professor Simon-Kerr is a leading scholar of evidence. Her work on credibility and lying in the law, among other topics, falls at the intersection of evidence theory and critical legal perspectives, while also influencing reform.  Simon-Kerr’s research and teaching interests also include civil procedure, criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, immigration law, and more. She clerked for Judge Kermit V. Lipez on the First Circuit Court of Appeals and for Justice Jaynee LaVecchia on the Supreme Court of New Jersey. While at the Law School, she was an executive editor for the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. Simon-Kerr earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.