Kit Kinports
Polisher Family Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law

Education:
J.D., University of Pennsylvania
A.B., Brown University

Professor Kit Kinports joined Penn State Law in 2006 from the University of Illinois College of Law. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Professor Kinports clerked 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.

Professor Kinports is a leading scholar of feminist jurisprudence, criminal law and federalism. Her recent work includes an article in the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology entitled “The Supreme Court’s Love-Hate Relationship with Miranda,” and an article appearing in the symposium issue of the Penn State Law Review entitled “Iqbal and Supervisory Immunity.” New editions of both casebooks she co-authors, Criminal Law: Cases and Materials and Constitutional Litigation Under Section 1983, were also published in 2008. Professor Kinports received several teaching awards at the University of Illinois, including the John E. Cribbet Excellence in Teaching Award, the highest mark of teaching achievement awarded by that institution.

Contact Information:
E-mail: kxk47@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 865-8907
Principal Office: University Park

Papers available via SSRN 

Selected Publications:
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).