Leah A. Plunkett

Climenko Fellow

Lecturer on Law

Additional Information

Ms. Plunkett will teach a section of First Year Legal Research and Writing in the Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 terms.

Biographical Statement

Leah Plunkett's scholarly work focuses on the intersection of creditor-debtor relationships with the criminal justice system, research that has applications to criminal law, creditor-debtor law, and family law. She received her A.B., summa cum laude, in American History and Literature from Harvard College and her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she served as a board member of the Legal Aid Bureau. After graduating from law school, Ms. Plunkett clerked for the Honorable Catherine C. Blake of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. She then received fellowship support from Equal Justice America and other institutions to establish the Youth Law Project at New Hampshire Legal Assistance, which provides civil legal representation to at-risk kids and teenagers. Ms. Plunkett subsequently worked as a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, where she addressed such issues as the economic needs of domestic violence survivors.

Representative Publications

• Plunkett, Leah A. & Erika A. Sussman. "Consumer Rights Screening Tool for Domestic Violence Advocates and Lawyers," 45 Clearinghouse Review 488 (2012).
  
• Plunkett, Leah A. & Ana Lucia Hurtado. "Small Dollar Loans, Big Problems: How States Protect Consumers from Abuses and How the Federal Government Can Help," 44 Suffolk University Law Review 31 (2011).
  

Bibliography

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