Scholarship

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Books:

Amy D. Ronner, Dostoevsky and the Law (2015, Carolina Academic Press).

Amy D. Ronner, Law, Literature, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence (2010, Carolina Academic Press).

Arthur J. England, Jr. & Amy D. Ronner, Practical Guide to the Appellate Courts of Florida (2007, Revere Legal Publishers) (Previous edition: 1997, as England and Ronner’s Practical Guide to the Appellate Courts of Florida).

Amy D. Ronner, Homophobia and the Law (2005, American Psychological Association).

Amy D. Ronner, W.H. Hudson: The Man, The Novelist, The Naturalist (1986, AMS Press).

Book Chapters:

Amy D. Ronner & Bruce J. Winick, The Antitherapeutic Per Curiam Affirmance, in Judging in a Therapeutic Key: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Courts 316 (Bruce J. Winick & David B. Wexler eds., 2003, Carolina Academic Press).

Amy D. Ronner, Some In-House Appellate Litigation Clinic’s Lessons in Professional Responsibility: Musical Stories of Candor and the Sandbag, in Clinical Anthology Readings for Live-Client Clinics (Alex Hurder et al. eds., 1997, Anderson Pub. Co.).

Articles:

Amy D. Ronner, Mitya Karamazov Gives the Supreme Court an Onion: The Role of Confessions, 66 Mercer Law Review 673 (2015).

Amy D. Ronner, Recreating Dead House: The Ouster of Miranda from Our Prisons, 50(1) Crim. L. Bull. 1 (2014).

Amy D. Ronner, Let’s Get the “Trans” and “Sex” Out of It and Free Us All, 16(3) J. Gender Race & Just. 859 (2013).

Amy D. Ronner, Does Golyadkin Really Have a Double?: Dostoyevsky Debunks Our Mental Capacity and Insane Delusion Doctrines, 40 Cap. U. L. Rev. 195 (2012). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, When Courts Let Insane Delusions Pass the Rational Basis Test: The Newest Challenge to Florida’s Exclusion of Homosexuals From Adoption, 21 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 1 (2011). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, The Learned-Helpless Lawyer: Clinical Legal Education and Therapeutic Jurisprudence As Antidotes to Bartleby Syndrome, 24 Touro L. Rev. 601 (2009). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, The Crucible, Harvard’s Secret Court, and Homophobic Witch Hunts, 73 Brook. L. Rev. 217 (2007). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Dostoyevsky and the Therapeutic Jurisprudence Confession, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 41 (2006). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Gay and Lesbian Adoption: Banishing the Pied Piper, 18 St. Thomas L. Rev. 207 (2005). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Denaturalization and Death: What It Means to Preclude the Exercise of Judicial Discretion, 20 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 101 (2005). HeinOnline

Juan Ramirez Jr. and Amy D. Ronner, Voiceless Billy-Budd: Melville’s Tribute to the Sixth Amendment, 41 Cal. W. L. Rev. 103 (2004). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Homophobia: In the Closet and In the Coffin, 21 Law & Ineq. 65 (2003). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Songs of Validation, Voice, and Voluntary Participation: Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Miranda and Juveniles, 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 89 (2002). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Scouting for Intolerance: The Dale Court’s Resurrection of the Medieval Leper, 11 Law & Sexuality 53 (2002). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Fleeing While Black: The Fourth Amendment Apartheid, 32 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 383 (2001). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner and Bruce J. Winick, The Per Curiam Affirmance: A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Critique, Record: J. App. Practice Sec. Fla. B., Vol. IX, No. 3, Spring 2001, at 1.

Amy D. Ronner and Dennis J. O’Connor, Good fences make bad neighbors: is the North American Free Trade Agreement a lie for lawyers?, 32 U. Miami Inter-Am. L. Rev. 437 (2001). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner & Bruce Winick, Silencing the Appellant’s Voice: The Antitherapeutic Per Curiam Affirmance, 24 Seattle U. L. Rev. 499 (2000). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Therapeutic Jurisprudence on Appeal, Court Review, Spring 2000, at 64.

Amy D. Ronner, Women Who Dance on the Professional Track: Custody and the Red Shoes, 23 Harv. Women’s L.J. 173 (2000). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, The Demise of the Reasonable Doubt Standard: The Toxic Watts and Putra Decision, 60 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 373 (1999). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Punishment Meted Out for Acquittals: An Anti-Therapeutic Jurisprudence Atrocity, 41 Ariz. L. Rev. 459 (1999). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, The Cassandra Curse: The Stereotype of the Female Liar Resurfaces in Jones v. Clinton, 31 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 123 (1997). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Some In-House Appellate Litigation Clinic’s Lessons in Professional Responsibility: Musical Stories of Candor and the Sandbag, 45 Am. U. L. Rev. 859 (1996). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Amathia and Denial of “In the Home” In Bowers v. Hardwick and Shahar v. Bowers: Objective Correlatives and The Bacchae as Tools for Analyzing Privacy and Intimacy, 44 U. Kan. L. Rev. 263 (1996). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Prometheus Unbound: Accepting a Mythless Concept of Civil In Rem Forfeiture with Double Jeopardy Protection, 44 Buff. L. Rev. 655 (1996). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Husband and Wife are One-Him: Bennis v. Michigan as the Resurrection of Coverture, 4 Mich. J. Gender & L. 129 (1996). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, When Judges Impose the Death Penalty After the Jury Recommends Life: Harris v. Alabama as the Excision of the Tympanic Membrane in an Augmentedly Death-Biased Procedure, 23 Hastings Const. L.Q. 217 (1995). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Bottoms v. Bottoms: The Lesbian Mother and the Judicial Perpetuation of Damaging Stereotypes, 7 Yale J.L. & Feminism 341 (1995). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Destructive Rules of Certainty and Efficiency: A Study in the Context of Summary Judgment Procedure and the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, 28 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 619 (1995). HeinOnline

Amy D. Ronner, Real Students, Real Appeals, Real Courts: The In-House Appellate Litigation Clinic at St. Thomas Univ. School of Law, Record: J. App. Practice Sec. Fla. B., May 1993, at 12.

Amy D. Ronner, Judicial Self-Demise: The Test of When Congress Impermissibly Intrudes on Judicial Power After Robertson v. Seattle Audubon Society and the Federal Appellate Courts’ Rejection of the Separation of Powers Challenges to the New Section of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 35 Ariz. L. Rev. 1037 (1993). HeinOnline

Additional Publications:

Amy D. Ronner, Comment, The Narrow Public Policy Exception to the Terminable-at-Will Rule, 38 U. Miami L. Rev. 565 (1984). HeinOnline

Select Presentations, Lectures, & Guest Appearances:

• Presentation: Is Stavrogin Leading Us By The Nose: The Nihilistic Confession at the 47th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2015).
• Presentation: Mitya Gives the Supreme Court an Onion: The Role of Confessions at the 46th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies in San Antonio, Texas (2014).
• Presentation: Dostoevsky and Mental Capacity Doctrine at the International Dostoevsky Conference in Moscow, Russia (2013).
• Panelist on WPBT Television: Discussion on recent Supreme Court Decisions (2013).
• Panelist: “So You Think You Have a Book in You,” at the National Association of Women Judges’ Conference in Miami, Florida (2012)
• Guest Lecturer: W.H. Hudson’s Green Mansions and Villa-Lobos Earth Day Celebration at the America’s Society, New York, N.Y. (2012)
• Presentation: Does Golyadkin Really Have A Double? Dostoyevsky Debunks the Mental Capacity and Insane Delusion Doctrines at the 2012 Georgetown International Narration Conference (2012)
• Presentation: Confessions and Dostoyevsky at the International Dostoyevsky Conference in Naples, Italy (2010)
• Presentation: Bartleby and the Learned-Helpless Lawyer at N.Y.U. Law School, Law and Mental Health Conference, in New York (2009)
• Presentation: Dostoyevsky and the Therapeutic Jurisprudence Confession at John Jay College of Criminal Justice International Conference on Justice and Policing in Diverse Societies in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2008)
• Guest Expert and Speaker on W.H. Hudson on The Secret Voice of Nature (Directed by George Tombs) on CBC Canadian Radio (2007)
• Presentation: Dostoyevsky and Therapeutic Jurisprudence at the International Academy of Law and Mental Health Conference in Padua, Italy (2007).
• Presentation: Live All You Can, Key Note Speech for Black Law Student Association in Miami, Florida (2006)
• Presentation: Therapeutic Jurisprudence As a Tool for Counseling Sexual Minorities at the International Academy of Law and Mental Health Conference in Paris, France (2005)
• Guest Lecture: Judicial Sensitivity and the Law at the Annual Business Program of the Conference of County Court Judges of the State of Florida in Naples, Florida (2004)
• Presentation: The Use of Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the TJ Preventive Law Model In Teaching an In-House Appellate Litigation Clinic at Association of American Law Schools Conference on Legal Education in San Diego, California (2004)
• Presentation: Conflicts of Interest and Joint Representation at the Second Annual Criminal Justice Ethics Symposium, jointly sponsored by the ABA Criminal Justice Section, the Florida Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, the Florida Bar Standing Committee on Professionalism, and the University of Miami School of Law Center for Ethics and Public Service in Miami, Florida (2003)
• Presentation: Silencing the Appellant’s Voice at the International Academy of Law and Mental Health Conference in Amsterdam, Holland (2002)
• Presentation: Songs of Validation, Voice and Voluntary Participation: Miranda and Juveniles at the Western Society of Criminology Conference in San Diego, California (2002)
• Presentation: Women Who Dance on the Professional Track: Custody and the Red Shoes at the Annual Florida Bar Conference (2001)
• Appearance on Lifetime television to discuss Women Who Dance on the Professional Track: Custody and the Red Shoes (2001)
• Presentation: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Courts at the European Law and Psychology Conference in Lisbon, Portugal (2001)
• Presentation: Collaborative Divorce at the Therapeutic Jurisprudence Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio (2001)
• Presentation: Therapeutic Jurisprudence on Appeal at the International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers Conference in Chicago, Illinois (2000)
• Lecture and Educational Program: Appellate Strategies at the Florida Coalition against Domestic Violence Conference in Jacksonville, Florida (2000)
• Moderator: Panel on Therapeutic Jurisprudence at the Law and Psychology Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana (2000)
• Moderator: Panel on Title VII and the First Amendment: A Collision Course? at the National Association of Women Judges’ 21st Annual Conference in Miami, Florida (1999)
• Presentation: Effective Use of Extraordinary Writs at the Florida Coalition against Domestic Violence in Miami, Florida (1999)