Biography:
B.A., Yale University
J.D., New York University School of Law

Before coming to Syracuse, Professor Roberts was a Senior Research Fellow at New York University School of Law’s Center for Research in Crime & Justice. She was previously a member of the NYU faculty where she taught for three years in the first-year Lawyering Program. Professor Roberts worked as a trial trainer and a staff attorney at the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society in Manhattan. Just before joining Legal Aid, she was a law clerk for Judge John S. Martin in the Southern District of New York. Professor Roberts graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from NYU School of Law, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays civil rights and civil liberties fellow and a Notes and Comments editor for the NYU Law Review.

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SSRN author home page:  http://ssrn.com/author=353913

Publications:

Ignorance is Effectively Bliss:  Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions, Silence and Misinformation in the Guilty Plea Process, forthcoming, Issue 1 Vol. 93 Iowa L. Rev. (2009), draft available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1407719

The Mythical Divide Between Collateral and Direct Consequences of Criminal Convictions:  Involuntary Commitment of “Sexually Violent Predators,” 93 Minn. L. Rev. 670 (2008), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1103172

 

Special Feature: A Conference on New York City's Criminal Courts: Too Little, Too Late: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, the Duty to Investigate, and Pretrial Discovery in Criminal Cases, 31 Fordham Urb. L. J. 1097 (2004), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1126709

SSRN author home page:  http://ssrn.com/author=353913

New York County Lawyer’s Association, Discovery in Criminal Courts:  Survey Report & Recommendations, available at http://www.nycla.org/siteFiles/Publications/Publications227_0.pdf  (co-author, with Michael Yavinsky and Susan Walsh) (2006)

Scholarly Presentations:

“Why Misdemeanors Matter,” May 2009 AALS Clinical Conference, Cleveland, OH (paper presentation).

 

“Ignorance is Effectively Bliss:  Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions, Silence and Misinformation,” Clinical Law Review Writer’s Workshop, Oct. 2008, New York University School of Law (paper presentation).

 

“The Mythical Divide Between Direct and Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions:  Involuntary Commitment of ‘Sexually Violent Predators,’” May 2008 AALS Clinical Conference, Tucson, AZ (paper presentation).

 

Guest Speaker, Wrongful Convictions class, “Law, Media and Politics” interdisciplinary Syracuse University College of Law, Maxwell and Newhouse schools course (Professors Keith Bybee, Lisa Dolak and Mark Obbie), April 2, 2008 and March 2009.

 

Peer Reviewer, Expanded Discovery Report Card (2008) and Consultant, Expanded Discovery in Criminal Cases:  A Policy Review (2007), The Justice Project (funded by the Pew Charitable Trust Foundation).

 

“Ignorance is Effectively Bliss:  Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions, Silence and Misinformation,” May 2007 AALS Clinical Conference, New Orleans, LA (paper presentation). 

 

 “Client-Centered Counseling, Decision-Making, and Effective Assistance of Counsel,” May 2007 AALS Clinical Conference, New Orleans, LA (co-presenter).

 

“Collateral Consequences and Minor Adjudications,” March 2006 Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities Conference, Syracuse, NY (presenter).

 

“The Lawyer’s Role in Problem-Solving Courts,” Oct. 2006, Syracuse University law school’s Family Law and Social Policy Center Conference on “The Impact of Problem-Solving Courts,” Syracuse, NY (presenter).

 

“The Meaning of Effective Assistance of Counsel In Misdemeanor Cases,” Clinical Law Review Writer’s Workshop, Oct. 2006, New York University School of Law (paper presentation).