The Uninnocent: Notes on Violence and Mercy

Katharine Blake McGowan is an adjunct professor at Vermont Law School’s Center for Justice Reform. She received her JD, with pro bono distinction, from Stanford Law School, where she was an editor of the Stanford Law & Policy Review. She has taught English at San Quentin Prison and served as assistant general counsel and director of special projects for the Children’s Defense Fund. She lives with her family in Burlington, Vermont.