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.