Quinton D. Lucas
Katie Cronin
Visiting Assistant Professor
Clinical Associate Professor
Chelsi Hayden
A.B., Washington University in St. Louis J.D., Cornell Law School
B.S.W., University of Missouri-Columbia J.D.,Vanderbilt University School of Law
B.A., University of Kansas J.D., University of Kansas School of Law
Quinton Lucas joins the KU Law faculty as the school’s first visiting assistant professor in over 30 years. Prior to entering academia, Lucas practiced commercial litigation with Rouse Hendricks German May in Kansas City, Mo., where he represented clients in government investigations and in trials and appeals in state and federal courts across the country. While at Rouse Hendricks, he also served as a constitutional law instructor at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kan. After graduating from Cornell Law School, Lucas served as a clerk to the Hon. Duane Benton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. His research interests include corporate and financial governance and regulation; corporate criminal liability and sentencing; contracts; and conflict of laws. Lucas teaches Contracts and Business Associations at KU.
Katie Cronin has an extensive background in legal aid, having previously served as the director of medical-legal partnerships for Legal Aid of Western Missouri and as an AmeriCorps member for the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago. As project director for medical-legal partnerships at Legal Aid of Western Missouri, Cronin secured a number of significant grants totaling over $1 million. In 2011, she also began work as a fellow for the Ladder to Leadership Program, a national initiative that aims to enhance the leadership capacity of community-based nonprofit health organizations. Cronin recently published an article in the journal Social Work and has one forthcoming in the Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community. She serves as director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at KU Law.
Chelsi Hayden joined the KU Law faculty as an adjunct Lawyering professor in 2011 and became a fulltime lecturer in law in 2012. Before entering academia, Hayden served as chambers counsel to Judge Carlos Murguia of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas and as an associate in business litigation for Shook, Hardy & Bacon in Kansas City, Mo. She has extensive experience in civil and criminal law and has litigated both state and federal cases, including for the Kansas Supreme Court. Hayden is also active in the community, serving as vice president of the Kansas Land Trust and board member for the Willow Domestic Violence Center in Lawrence. At KU, she joins a talented team of faculty members who teach essential legal research and writing skills through the school’s first-year Lawyering program.
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