Professor Kinports is a leading scholar of feminist jurisprudence, criminal law and federalism and an award-winning classroom teacher. Professor Kinports is a former clerk for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Harry Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before entering the teaching profession, she practiced law with Ennis, Friedman, Bersoff & Ewing in Washington, D.C. for several years.

Her recent work includes an article in the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal entitled “Culpability, Deterrence, and the Exclusionary Rule,” an article on the Supreme Court's recent treatment of the Fourth Amendment rights of witnesses appearing in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, and a symposium piece entitled “Feminist Prosecutors and Patriarchal States” to be published in Criminal Law and Philosophy.

“Feminist Prosecutors and Patriarchal States,” Crim. L. & Phil. (forthcoming).

“Culpability, Deterrence, and the Exclusionary Rule,” 21 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 821 (2013).

“Camreta and al-Kidd: The Supreme Court, the Fourth Amendment, and Witnesses,” 102 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 283 (2012).

“Feminist Prosecutors and Patriarchal States,” Crim. L. & Phil. (forthcoming).

“The Supreme Court’s Love-Hate Relationship with Miranda,” 101 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 375 (2011).

“Iqbal and Supervisory Immunity,” 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 1291 (2010).

“Veteran Police Officers and Three-Dollar Steaks: The Subjective/Objective Dimensions of Probable Cause and Reasonable Suspicion,” 12 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 751 (2010).

“Diminishing Probable Cause and Minimalist Searches,” 6 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 249 (2009).

Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (with Stephen A. Saltzburg et al., 3d ed. 2008).

Constitutional Litigation Under Section 1983 (with Mark R. Brown, 2d ed. 2008).

"Criminal Procedure in Perspective," 98 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 71 (2007).