Edith Kinney, J.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
J.D., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, CA
Contact Information:
Email: edith.kinney@sjsu.edu
Phone: 408-294-2946
Office: MH 525A
Fall 2025 Office Hours: TBD
About Dr. Edith Kinney:
Edith Kinney is an Associate Professor of Justice Studies, working in the fields of
human rights and critical legal studies. She is the Legal Action Coordinator for the
Human Rights Institute at SJSU. She received her Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social policy and her J.D. from
Berkeley Law, providing an interdisciplinary background that informs her research
and scholarship. Her work has appeared in the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, Negotiating Sex Work: Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism (Carisa R. Showden & Samantha Majic, eds., University of Minnesota Press, 2014) and Gender, Violence, and Human Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives (Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Feree & Christina Ewig, eds., NYU Press 2013). Dr. Kinney's
current research projects explore the sexual politics of crime and security in local
and transnational arenas.
Edith Kinney is a member of the Law & Society Association, the American Sociological Association, the American Society of Criminology, Sociologists for Women in Society, and the Western Society of Criminology. Dr. Kinney provides advising to students interested in attending law school (pre-law advising).
Areas of Interest:
- Dynamic interactions of law and society, focused on the role social movement organizations play in criminal justice reform efforts around human trafficking, sexual violence, prison conditions, reentry, and collaborative courts
