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Education

L.L.M., Georgetown University Law Center
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
B.A., Claremont McKenna College

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Areas of Expertise
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Clinical Education
Prison Law

Biography
Kronick teaches constitutional criminal procedure and is the founding director of the Criminal Defense and Advocacy Clinic. Students in the clinic represent indigent individuals on misdemeanor cases in Baltimore City District Court. The clinic also works with community organizations to provide post-conviction representation. Kronick’s scholarship derives from her experiences as a former public defender and clinician, writing in the areas of forensic science, post-conviction litigation, sentencing, and intellectual disability. Her scholarship has appeared in the North Carolina Law Review and Boston College Law Review among others. She has also published in the Baltimore Sun and Newsweek.

Prior to joining the University of Baltimore faculty, Kronick was a practitioner-in-residence in the Criminal Justice Clinic-Defense at American University Washington College of Law. In that role, Kronick supervised law students on misdemeanor cases in Montgomery County, Maryland and compassionate release cases in D.C. Superior Court. Before entering academia, she was an assistant deputy public defender with the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, where she represented individuals charged with felony offenses, from drug distribution to homicide.

Kronick was also a Prettyman Fellow in the Criminal Justice Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center, during which she represented indigent individuals charged with misdemeanors and felonies, as well as supervised law students on their misdemeanor cases. Immediately after law school, Kronick clerked for Judge Neal E. Kravitz on D.C. Superior Court.


Articles and Essays

Katie Kronick, Intellectual Disability, Mitigation and Punishment, 65 B.C. L. Rev. 1561 (2024).

Katie Kronick, Left Behind, Again: Intellectual Disability and the Resentencing Movement, 101 N.C. L. Rev. 959 (2023).

Katie Kronick, Forensic Science and the Judicial Conformity Problem, 51 Seton Hall L. Rev. 589 (2021).

  • Now Is Not the Time to Backslide on Atkins: Why IQ Alone Isn’t Justice ‐ Katie Kronick, September 2, 2026
    The Supreme Court must retain a holistic understanding of intellectual disability and affirm the 11th Circuit’s decision in Hamm v. Smith.
  • “Excited Delirium” Is Pseudoscience. Police Often Cite It to Justify Brutality. ‐ Katie Kronick and Rachel Kincaid, September 2, 2026
    "For too long, excited delirium has been a tool in the back pockets of police, medical examiners, and coroners used to cover up killings in police custody, leaving families without answers — or justice. Maryland’s audit is a good start at righting this wrong, but a national reckoning is needed."
  • Why is it So Hard for Courts to Adjust to Advancements in Knowledge of Human Behavior: A Death Penalty Case Study ‐ Katie Kronick, September 2, 2026
    "Rightly, much attention in the legal pleadings and the media around this case has been the prosecution’s reliance on junk science to form the basis of the jury’s guilty finding and, ultimately, the death sentence. Yet, many also argue that a significant reason Mr. Roberson is facing the death penalty is that he has autism. [...] Studies indicate that 40% of people facing charges in the criminal legal system has one or more mental disability. Despite their disproportionate presence in this system, most lawyers, judges, and other system actors are unequipped to identify whether a person has a mental disability or how to best accommodate them. Thus, time and again, we end-up in situations like Mr. Roberson’s—misinterpretations that result in grave harm."
  • The Criminal Legal System Is Failing People with Intellectual Disabilities ‐ Katie Kronick, September 2, 2026
    "Last month, a Baltimore County judge ordered the Maryland Department of Health to pay over $600,000 for its failure to meet the needs of people in the criminal legal system who have intellectual disability and severe mental illness. Even though the law requires transfer to an appropriate treatment facility within 10 days of a court order, people with significant needs are waiting nearly half a year in jail without meaningful care. It's shameful that we have never truly moved away from incarcerating the most vulnerable among us. We need to find ways to decrease their presence in the criminal legal system-one disproportionately targeted group that we are failing is people with intellectual disability."
  • We Would Vote for People with Felonies—Well, Not All of Them ‐ Katie Kronick and Amanda K. Rogers, September 2, 2026
    "...But how we choose our leaders should not be about a felony conviction—it should be about character and actions. When we are unable to see anyone as more than one thing—"felon"—it harms our communities, our neighbors and robs us of potential visionary leaders."