Deborah Tuerkheimer
Professor of Law
A.B., Harvard College
J.D., Yale University
Office Phone: (207) 780-4409
tuerkheimer@usm.maine.edu
View Professor Tuerkheimer's most recent curriculum vitae.
Professor Tuerkheimer joined the University of Maine School of Law faculty in 2002. She teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence and a seminar on domestic violence.
Professor Tuerkheimer received her undergraduate degree cum laude from Harvard College and her law degree from the Yale Law School, where she served as co-chair of the Yale Law Women and lead editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. Upon graduation from law school, she clerked for Justice Jay Rabinowitz of the Alaska Supreme Court. Prior to entering academia, Professor Tuerkheimer practiced law for five years as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, where she specialized in domestic violence prosecution. In addition to handling and supervising domestic violence cases, she prosecuted child abuse, sex crimes, and internet crimes and conducted trainings for prosecutors, law enforcement officers, medical personnel and child protective workers.
Professor Tuerkheimer focuses her scholarship on the intersection of criminal law and the lives of women and children. Her recent articles include "Recognizing and Remedying the Harm of Battering: A Call to Criminalize Domestic Violence," published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, "Conceptualizing Violence Against Pregnant Women," published in the Indiana Law Journal, and "Crawford's Triangle: Domestic Violence and the Right of Confrontation," published in the North Carolina Law Review. Professor Tuerkheimer also has publications forthcoming in the George Washington Law Review, Journal of Law and Policy, Texas Law Review's on-line edition, and the Arizona Law Review.
She is a member of Governor Baldacci's Advisory Council on the Prevention of Domestic and Sexual Violence, and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Maine Bar Foundation, a nonprofit organization which promotes the provision of legal services to the poor.
