John R. Quinn - Assistant Professor of Legal Process

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Legal Process

Civil Procedure 

John R. Quinn is dedicated to bridging theory and practice in legal education. An honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he also holds a PhD in English from Stony Brook University. He joined the faculty full-time in August 2023 as an Assistant Professor of Legal Process after teaching as an adjunct during the 2022-2023 academic year.

Before joining Touro, Professor Quinn taught the first-year legal writing course at St. John’s and Harvard Law Schools as well as Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties at Stony Brook. His diverse classroom experience also includes teaching eleventh-grade English in a Bronx public high school.  

In his legal career, Professor Quinn served as long-term career law clerk to the Hon. Raymond J. Dearie of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of New York. That appointment followed more than a decade in the active practice of criminal and civil law that spanned “big law,” a boutique firm, and a thriving solo practice. Currently, Professor Quinn holds an appointment to the CJA Panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, where he serves as court-appointed appellate counsel to indigent defendants. Professor Quinn also serves as co-faculty adviser to the Moot Court Honors Board and is the 2024 recipient of the Hon. George C. Pratt Alumni Award in Appellate Advocacy. With these experiences, Professor Quinn brings an especially professional and practical perspective to the law school classroom.  

Professor Quinn’s academic interests include criminal law (especially federal sentencing jurisprudence and habeas corpus), statutory interpretation, evidence, law and religion, law and literature, and legal translation.