When Ms. Maguigan started practicing law, in the early 1970s, women with physically abusive partners had almost no recourse in the criminal justice system.
She connected lawyers with psychologists and other experts. She took on cases herself, then used that experience to inform an influential series of law review articles that reoriented self-defense law.
Among her most significant contributions was a lengthy 1991 article in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, in which she provided data to show that a vast majority of women who use force to defend themselves against abusers do so during attacks or under imminent threat.
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