American lawyer and academic
Holly Maguigan (May 29, 1945 – November 15, 2023) was an American criminal defense lawyer and professor of law. She was a leader in the legal movement that promotes the self-defense defense in domestic violence cases.
Early life and education.
Maguigan was born in Buffalo, New York, and raised in Chester, Virginia, the daughter of Harvey Maguigan and Virginia Smith Maguigan. She earned a bachelor's degree in history from Swarthmore College in 1966, and a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972.
Career.
Maguigan worked in the public defenders' office in Philadelphia in the early 1970s, then entered private practice. From 1987 to 2021, she was on the faculty at the New York University School of Law. Her 1991 article for the "University of Pennsylvania Law Review" on domestic violence and self-defense is considered an important data-based argument for the rights of women defendants. 
Maguigan was co-president of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) in 2004. She served on the boards of MADRE and the William Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice. In 1993, she and other advocates for battered women were honored by the New York City chapter the National Lawyers Guild.
Personal life.
Maguigan married twice. She married Thomas Wright in 1969; he died in 1974. She had a daughter, Miranda, with political consultant Paul Tully. She married lawyer Abdeen Jabara in 1997. Maguigan died in 2023, at the age of 78, in New York City.
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