MARY W. CRAIG
Associate Professor of Law
B.A., Abilene Christian University; J.D., University of Texas School of Law
Mary Craig, Associate Professor of Law, joined the Jones faculty in August 2004 to teach Legal Research & Writing. Since then, she has added casebook courses to her teaching responsibilities, including Animal Law, the area in which her scholarship interests lie.
She received her B.A. in Human Communications from Abilene Christian University in 1983, graduating as Valedictorian. She received her J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989.
After clerking for a United States Magistrate for a year, she joined an insurance defense litigation boutique in El Paso, Texas. She later resigned her partnership in that firm to become a partner in Barrow & Craig, L.P., also in El Paso, where she maintained a general practice. In 1997, she accepted the position of staff counsel with CNA Insurance Companies in El Paso, Texas. In 2001, CNA moved her to Abilene, Texas to open a branch staff counsel office where she represented CNA insureds in east and central Texas and west into New Mexico. Just prior to joining the Jones faculty, Professor Craig was Assistant Criminal District Attorney for Taylor County, Texas, handling all Child Protective Services and Adult Protective Services cases, as well as protective orders and mental commitments.
She was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1989, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas in 1990, and the State Bar of New Mexico in 1999.
Publications
Just Say Neigh: A Call for Federal Regulation of By-Product Disposal by the Equine Industry, 12 Animal L. 193 (2006).
What About Worker's Comp?, CHRISTIAN WOMAN, May - June 2006.
Thinking Outside the Black Box: How an Electronic Security Device Became a Police Informant, Web Link 1, Web Link 2.
Submitted for Publication
A Horse of a Different Color: A Study of Antitrust and Restraint of Trade Violations in the Animal Industry
Works in Progress
The Nature of the Beast: A Case for Classifying and Punishing Bestiality as a Sex Crime