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Brendan Conner
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., Saint Mary’s College of Maryland
M.A., The New School for Social Research
J.D., City University of New York School of Law
About
Brendan M. Conner is an Assistant Professor of Law at Delaware Law School. Professor Conner joined the faculty from St. Thomas University Benjamin L. Crump College of Law, where he taught courses including Torts, Constitutional Law, and Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and the Law. He previously taught legal research and writing at William & Mary Law School and the University of the District of Columbia Law and served as a Clinical Adjunct Professor with the Economic Justice Project, a law student clinic at his alma mater, the City University of New York School of Law.
Professor Conner’s scholarship focuses on the civil liberties implications of the convergence in criminal and “civil” law enforcement functions in America, particularly the rise of policing-for-profit and the use of civil actions by police and prosecutors attempting to circumvent constitutional, procedural, and evidentiary protections afforded to criminal defendants. He is also widely published in U.S and international law topics related to police and child protection interventions involving youth accused of drug- and prostitution-related offenses.
Before teaching, Professor Conner served as a Yale Initiative for Public Interest Law Fellow and later attorney for a New York City community-based organization, where he represented runaway and homeless youth in criminal, eviction, and public benefits proceedings and brought affirmative civil rights and police misconduct litigation on behalf of transgender and gender non-conforming youth.
Professor Conner is admitted to practice in the state of New York.
Courses
Torts; Constitutional Law; Legal Methods
Publications
Publications on Google Scholar
Legal Scholarship
Fine-Tuning: The Emergent Order-Maintenance Architecture of Local Civil Enforcement, 42 Pace L. Rev. 138 (2021).
In Loco Aequitatis: The Dangers of "Safe Harbor" Laws for Youth in the Sex Trades, 12 Stanford J. C.R. & C.L. 43 (2016).
Salvaging “Safe Spaces:” Toward Model Standards for LGBTQ Youth-Serving Professionals Encountering Law Enforcement, 24 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 199 (2016).
First, Do No Harm: Legal Guidelines for Health Programs Affecting Adolescents who Sell Sex or Inject Drugs, 18 Int’l AIDS Soc’y J. (Supp. 2015).
Research and Policy Reports
Locked In: Interactions with the Criminal Justice and Child Welfare Systems for LGBTQ Youth, YMSM, and YWSW Who Engage in Survival Sex (2015) (co-authored, published by the Urban Institute).
Surviving the Streets: Experiences of LGBTQ, YMSM, and YWSW Youth in the Sex Trades (2015) (co-authored, published by the Urban Institute).
Health Equity for All: Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs and Access to Health Services for Adolescents 10–17 Engaged in Selling Sex in the Asia Pacific (2014) (co-authored, published by HIV Young Leaders Fund).
Other Publications
A New Law to "Save" Minors from Survival Sex will Force them into State Custody, The Guardian, Oct. 15, 2015.
David Felix: Jailed by an Unjust System, Failed by City Services, Killed by Police, The Guardian, June 10, 2015 (co-authored with Marissa Ram).
“Violence: An Introduction,” in $pread: An Anthology (Feminist Press, 2015).