Brendan M. Conner

Assistant Professor of Law

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Email: bconner2@stu.edu

Phone: 305.628.2363

Mail:

St. Thomas University College of Law
Faculty Suite (209)
16401 NW 37th Ave
Miami Gardens, FL 33054

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Education:

B.A., Saint Mary’s College of Maryland, magna cum laude
M.A., The New School for Social Research
J.D., City University of New York School of Law

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Expertise:

Constitutional Law
Interlegality Issues
Torts

Brendan M. Conner

Brendan M. Conner is an Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University School of Law, where he teaches Torts, Constitutional Law, and Appellate Advocacy. Prior to joining St. Thomas, Brendan served as Visiting Professor of the Legal Practice at William & Mary Law School, taught Legal Writing, Legal Research, and Professional Responsibility at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, and supervised upper-level law students as a Clinical Adjunct Professor for the Economic Justice Project clinic at the City University of New York School of Law.

After graduating law school, Professor Conner was awarded the Yale Initiative for Public Interest Law Fellowship to join a community-based runaway and homeless youth organization in New York City. As a fellow and later attorney at the organization, Brendan provided direct and impact-related representation to young people in a wide range of state, federal, and administrative courts and proceedings—including eviction, public benefits, criminal defense, and affirmative civil rights litigation challenging police misconduct and conditions of confinement affecting transgender and gender non-conforming youth.

Building on this experience, Professor Conner’s current scholarship focuses on contemporary “interlegality,” identifying and explaining emerging patterns of convergence across historically distinct legal subject matter areas such as criminal, tort, property, and land-use law. Professor Conner has also widely published in interdisciplinary academic journals and national, international, and civil society reports on the subject of U.S. and international legal protections affecting youth in conflict with the law, particularly youth accused of drug- or prostitution-related offenses.