Courtney Cross

Professor Cross is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Legal Instruction  and the Director of the Domestic Violence Law Clinic. Prior to joining  the faculty at the University of Alabama School of Law, Professor Cross  taught in the Civil Litigation Clinic at the University of Denver and  was a clinical teaching fellow in the Domestic Violence Clinic at  Georgetown University, where she earned her LL.M degree. Before she  began teaching, Professor Cross was an Equal Justice Works/AmeriCorps  Fellow and staff attorney at a women’s reentry nonprofit in Washington,  D.C. where she represented formerly incarcerated women in domestic  violence and family court proceedings and represented incarcerated women  in parole revocation hearings. Professor Cross received her J.D. from  New York University and her B.A., magna cum laude, from UC San Diego.  Her research focuses on the myriad intersections between domestic  violence, poverty, and criminal law.