Theresa A. Newman
Clinical Professor of Law
Theresa Newman is a Clinical Professor of Law, co-director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic (with Professor James Coleman), and associate director of the Duke Law School Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility. She was associate dean for academic affairs from 1999-2008, director of the Legal Writing Program from 1994-1999, and general editor of Law and Contemporary Problems from 1990-2001. Professor Newman also serves as faculty adviser to the Law School's student-led Innocence Project, as president of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, president of the (International) Innocence Network, and as a member of the North Carolina Chief Justice's Criminal Justice Study Commission (formerly the Commission on Actual Innocence).
Professor Newman received her JD from Duke in 1988. She clerked for the Honorable J. Dickson Phillips, Jr., on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the first year after graduation and then practiced in the civil litigation group of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice in Raleigh, N.C.