About me
Corinna Lain is the S. D. Roberts & Sandra Moore Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law, where she has been a law professor for 23 years. Professor Lain’s scholarship focuses on two areas—Supreme Court decision-making and the death penalty—and she has published numerous articles and essays about lethal injection over the last decade. Her work has appeared in the nation’s top law journals, and has been cited in a Supreme Court opinion. She is a frequent presenter at both national and international conferences, and is co-author (with Ron Bacigal) of the Virginia Practice Series on criminal law, a four-volume treatise for the bench and practicing bar. Professor Lain graduated summa cum laude from the College of William and Mary in 1992, and received her J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1996, where she was elected to Order of the Coif. She clerked on the Tenth Circuit and then was a prosecutor for three years before joining the Richmond Law faculty in 2001. Professor Lain is a recipient of the University of Richmond’s Distinguished Educator Award and is a veteran of the United States Army. Her first book, Secrets of the Killing State: the Untold Story of Lethal Injection, is under contract with NYU Press and written for a lay audience, with a release date of spring 2025.
