Cortney Lollar

Cortney E. Lollar is the James and Mary Lassiter Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky, where she focuses on criminal law and criminal procedure, with particular attention to the intersections of criminal law, remedies, race, gender, sexuality and social science. Her scholarship examines the mistreatment of impoverished women and women of color by the court systems. She graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1997 and earned her Juris Doctor at New York University in 2002. In March 2013 she testified in Washington, D.C. before the United States Department of Defense Judicial Proceedings Panel, which reviewed judicial proceedings under the Uniform Code of Military Justice involving adult sexual assault and related offenses. She argues against relying on the criminal system to award money for damages for certain broad crimes, believing it will hurt the poorest convicted people, and she has urged Kentucky to pass laws helping parents provide better care for their children.