Dannye R. Holley

Professor of Law

Phone: (713) 313-1050
Email: dannye.holley@tmslaw.tsu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Joined the faculty in 1977.

Education:
LL.M., University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 1971
J.D., State University of NY-Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 1970
B.A., State University of NY-Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 1967

Courses Taught
Criminal Law
Advanced Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure Evidence

Biographical Information

• Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus (September 2016-Present)
• Dean, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2010-August 2016)
  Interim Dean, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2009-2010)
  
• Co-Director, Center for Legal Pedagogy, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2002-2009)
  Chair, Rank & Tenure Committee, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX
  (2006-2009)
  
• Chair, Sub-Committee on the Faculty, ABA Self-Study & Strategic Plan, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2006-2008)
  
• Chair, Faculty Development Committee, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2002-2006)
  University Faculty Research Committee, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2002-2006)
  
• Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Law School Finance, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2000-2002)
• Pharmacy School, Dean Search Committee Chairperson, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (2000)
  
• Co-Director, L.E.A.P. Program, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (1999-2000)
  
• Chairperson, Self-Study Committee, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (1998-1999)
  
• Chairperson, Rank and Tenure Committee, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (1995-1997)
  

Select Publications

• Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University, 78 Tex. B.J. 788 (Nov. 2015).
• Crawford at 10: Perspectives of Its Significance for the Profession and Academy from Study of the Reactions of the Nation’s State Supreme Courts and a Proposed Solution to the “Testimonial” Conundrum, Crim. L. Bull., Summer 2015, No. 4, at Art. 1.
• Mens Rea Evaluations By The United States Supreme Court: It Does Not Have the Tools and Only Occasionally Display the Talent - A Sixty Year Report Card 1950-2009, 35 OKLA. CITY L. REV. 399 (2010).
  
• The Supreme Courts: Did September 11 Accelerate Their Sanctioning The Constitutionality of Criminalizing Suspicion?, 7 PIERCE L. REV. 39 (2008).
  
• Judicial Anarchy, 2007 MICH. ST. L. REV. 307 (2007).
• Culpability Evaluations in The State Supreme Courts, 34 AKRON L. REV. 401 (2001).
  
• Culpability Evaluations in The State Supreme Courts from 1977 to 1999: A "Model" Assessment, 34 AKRON L. REV. 401 (2000).
• Using the Syllabus as Synthesis & Teaching Plan, Essay in Techniques For Teaching Law, (Steven Friedland and Gerald Hess eds., Carolina Academic Press, 1999).
• Dannye Holley and L. Darnell Weeden, United States v. Fordice:  The Mississippi Aftermath, 31 NEW ENG. L. J. 769 (1997).
  
• The Influence of the Model Penal Code's Culpability Provisions on State Legislatures:  A Study of Lost Opportunities, Including Abolishing The Mistake of Fact Doctrine, 27 S. W. L. J. 229 (1997).
  
• Dannye Holley and Dr. Joyce Holley, Auditor Common Law Liability in The State Appellate Courts:  A Recent (1980-1994) Outcome Restatement and Perspectives of the Accounting and Legal Professions, 6 MIAMI BUS. L. J. 1 (1996).
  
• Dannye Holley and J.P. Ogilvy, Critical Thinking and The Law, 1 INT'L J. OF THE LEGAL PROF. 343 (1994).
  

Selected Presentations

• Minority Bar Passage, St. Mary's Law School Symposium on Minority Bas Passage, January 2000.
  
• Dannye Holley & Anthony Palasota, Critical Thinking: Lessons for Legal Education, AALS Meeting, 1995.
  
• Dannye Holley & Anthony Palasota, Reading Law Related Materials and Critical Thinking, National Law School Academic Support Program Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 1994.
  

Professional Programs & Papers

• Texas Judicial Conference - Continuing Educations for Judges. Program Presenter on Texas Evidence Rules, August 2008.
  
• National Conference on Minorities and Law Schools - Panelist on Minority Students and The Bar Examination, Fall 2007.
  
• Town Hall Meeting on Federal Sentencing Disparities - Panelist, September 2007.
  
• The Insanity Defense & The Andrea Yates Case - Panel Discussion, October 2006.
  
• The Insanity Defense & The Andrea Yates Case - Panel Discussion, 2002.
  
• Minority Bar Passage - Presentation at St. Mary's Law School Symposium on Minority Bar Passage, January 2000.
  

Affiliations

• ABA 1988
  
• President, National Bar Association Western New York, 1975-77
  
• National Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
  

Service

• Co-Director, Center for Legal Pedagogy, 2002-09
  
• Chair, Rank & Tenure Committee, 2006-09
  
• Chair, Sub-Committee on the Faculty - ABA Self-Study & Strategic Plan, 2006-08
  
• Chair, Faculty Development Committee, 2002-06
  
• Associate Dean, Academic Affairs & Law School Finance, 2000-02

 

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