Contracts Prof Weekly Spotlight: Kerri Lynn Stone

Kerri Lynn Stone (Temple)
B.A., Columbia University
J.D., NYU Law School

Kerri Stone is in her second year of a two-year post as an Abraham L. Freedman Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Temple Law School.

Kerri Stone is a 2000 graduate of New York University School of Law, where she served as Developments Editor of NYU’s Journal of International Law and Politics and was named a Robert McKay Scholar. She received her B.A. in English and Comparative Literature, magna cum laude, from Columbia University. Following her law school graduation, Kerri clerked for three federal judges: Judge Michael H. Dolinger (Magistrate Judge, Southern District of New York), Judge Julio M. Fuentes (Third Circuit Court of Appeals), and Judge Maryanne Trump Barry (Third Circuit Court of Appeals). She subsequently practiced with the firm of Proskauer Rose, LLP, as an associate in both the Litigation and the Labor and Employment Departments, and she was an adjunct professor of Business Law at the Business School of Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey from 2001-2005.

Kerri is the author of four articles. The first three were published in the North Atlantic Regional  Business Law Association’s 2003 Business Law Review, the Columbia Journal of Gender & Law, and the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, and her most recent article will be published in the Hastings Law Journal. Her areas of scholarship and teaching experience include employment law and discrimination, torts, disability law, and contracts.

Kerri is married to another lawyer, Josh, and lives on the upper west side of Manhattan. In her spare time, she enjoys taking jazz dance classes at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y, skiing beginner ski trails with her husband, and hanging out with her mom.