Doctor of Jurisprudence (1969 - Honors), University of Chicago Law School

• Mechem Prize Scholar
• Order of Coif
• Editorial Board, University of Chicago Law Review

Bachelor of Arts (1966 - Honors), Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

• Major, Government
• Minor, Economics. Phi Beta Kappa

Attended (1964-66) University of Virginia, Charlottesville

• Student of Political Science and Economics

II  LEGAL PRACTICE AND LAW SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION

California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA (1979-present)

• Chair, various committees including Faculty Executive Committee (primarily tenure review); Curriculum; Admissions; Law School Bylaws; Professional Responsibility Committee

Associate Dean, Washington University (St. Louis, MO 1973-75)

• [Assistant Professor 1972-1979]
• Academic Dean, Student Relations, Admissions, Financial Aid

Attorney, Freedman and Koven  (Chicago, IL 1969-72)

• Federal Litigation, Plaintiff's Antitrust, Environmental Control, General Corporate

Attorney, Fortas and Koven  (Washington, D.C. 1971-72)

• Of Counsel to former U. S. Supreme Court Justice Fortas concerning patent antitrust and U.S. Constitutional issues respecting state and local government

Bar Admissions

• State - Illinois; Missouri
• Federal - N. and S. District of  Illinois;  Seventh Circuit

III  PROFESSIONAL/COMMUNITY SERVICE AND AWARDS

National Association of Women Lawyers

• Board Member (2001- present)
• Treasurer (2002-present)
• former V. Pres., Former Chair, Legislation Committee
• [The N.A.W.L., affiliated with the American Bar Association, publishes the Women Lawyers Journal, hosts seminars for attorneys, this year including “Oral Argument in the United States Supreme Court,” featuring as speakers Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor.  N.A.W.L. also files Supreme Court Amicus Briefs.]

Center for Creative Problem Solving, California Western School of Law

• Advisory Board (1997- 1999, present)

San Diego City Attorney

• Advisor regarding Constitutional Law issues

Diversionary Theatre (San Diego)

• Board of Directors and Treasurer (1994-1996)

San Diego Coalition for Equality

• Education Subcommittee (1992-93) [Supporting minority access to higher education in San Diego]

National Organization For Women

• Susan B. Anthony Award (San Diego, 1990)

Federation of Women Lawyers Judicial Selection Panel

• At-Large Representative (1973-83)
• [F.W.L.J.S.P. advised the U.S. President and Senate Judiciary Committee on judicial appointments.]

Association of American Law Schools

• Chair, Women Law Teachers Section (1972-73) [Section is the professional voice of women law professors in the United States, with Canadian affiliates.]
• Representative to House of Delegates (Occasional)

Washington University Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Department  (1974-75).

• Founding Faculty Member, Planning and Steering Committee [Established new major, including curriculum, faculty recruitment and student thesis criteria.]

Professional Memberships

• American Bar Association
• National Association of Women Lawyers
• Illinois Bar Association
• Missouri Bar Association
• Tom Homan Bar Association
• American Association of University Women

IV TEACHING, LECTURING, AND SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

A.  CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Professor of Law, California Western School of Law (1981-present; Visiting Associate Professor 1979-1981)

• Constitutional Law I  [Structure of U.S. Government]
• Constitutional Law II [Civil Liberties, the Bill of Rights, Race and
  Gender, Post Civil War Amendments]
• Seminar on First Amendment [Free Speech and Religion]
  Civil Rights  [Statutory enactments under 13th, 14th and15th Amendments
  to the U.S. Constitution]

Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego, Department of Communication (2004)

• First Amendment [Undergraduate lecture course, Freedom of Speech
  and Religion]

Visiting Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Te Kauhanganui Tatai Ture, Victoria University, Te Whare Wananga o te Upoko o te Ika a Maui  (Wellington, New Zealand, 1996)

• Honors Comparative Law Seminar on Free Expression

Visiting Professor of Law, University of San Diego (1989-90)

• Constitutional Law I  [Structure of U.S. Government]
• Constitutional Law II [Civil Liberties, the Bill of Rights, race and gender]

 RELATED PAPERS AND LECTURES (SELECTED)

“American Constitutional Philosophy,” 2005 Lecture Series, Universidad de Chile, facultad de Dericho, sponsored by the Center for Creative Problem Solving in cooperation with the Heidelberg Center.  (Santiago)

“Pornography and Censorship in New Zealand,” (with B. Hastings).  Intercampus Lecture Series, Victoria University, Te Whare Wananga o te Upolo o te Ika a Maui, Wellington, New Zealand (1996)

“Whipping a Dead American Horse: Privacy and Free Expression in New Zealand,” Bar Lecture Series, Victoria University Faculty of Law, Te Kauhanganui Tatai Ture, Wellington, New Zealand  (1996)

“Religion in America Under the Constitution: Short Briefs on Religion in American Public Education and Free Press in the United States,” 1996 - Paper prepared for Minister of Education, Tyzla-Podrinje Canton, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

B.  WOMEN AND THE LAW

Visiting Professor, Department of Women's Studies, San Diego State University  (1988-90, 1993)

• Women and the Law [Undergraduate cross-cultural overview]

Assistant Professor of Law, Washington University, St. Louis (1972-79)

• Women and the Law [Graduate seminar, Law and Social Work]

RELATED PAPERS AND LECTURES (SELECTED)

Sexual Harassment Handbook (1995)  Prepared for American Archeology Association annual meeting in San Diego and distributed in conjunction with lecture.

“Affirmative Action or Alternative Approaches,” eSTEP program lecture for secondary teachers, San Diego State University (1995)

“Sexual Harassment in Military Management,” Workshop for U.S. Navy, 1991 San Diego Training Conference
 
“Federal Judicial Selection of Women Judicial Candidates,” 1985 American Bar Association Annual Meeting, Keynote, National Association of Women Lawyers Luncheon (Houston, TX)

“Judicial Selection and the Woman Candidate,” 1982 panel at National Conference on Women and Law (San Francisco)

“Stepmothers, Fairy Godmothers, and Other Mothers”  Lecture (with A. Padgett), Colloquium on Women, Washington University (1981)

“Socratic Teaching and the Woman Law Professor” and “Juggling Career and Life: the Woman Law Professor,” Association of American Law Schools, Lectures at 1981 Women and Law Professional Development Conference (San Diego)

“Our Legal System: Its Impact on Women over Sixty-Five,” Lecture at 1975 Olin Conference on Women (St. Louis)

“Impotence of our Criminal Justice System: Forcible Rape, A Case Study,” Paper and Lecture at Colloquium on Women, Washington University (1973)

C. COURT PROCEDURE AND PRACTICE

Professor of Law, California Western School of Law and Assistant Professor of Law, Washington University

• Civil Procedure I and II [Choice of forum; Pretrial Procedure]
• Evidence  [Admission of evidence at trial]

RELATED PAPERS AND LECTURES (SELECTED)

“Introduction to American Law,” Monograph, California Western School of Law, Introduction to Law School Program (1988).  Lecture and paper distributed to entering law students and to lay audiences.

D. LAW AND ECONOMICS

Professor of Law, California Western School of Law

• Antitrust Law

Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego, Department of Communication (2000)

• Seminar, Legal and Media Implications of Microsoft and Napster Cases
  [Relationship of antitrust, First Amendment and copyright law]

Assistant Professor of Law, Washington University

• Trade Regulation [Statutorily regulated industries]
• Seminar, Competition and Monopoly [Economic impact of antitrust laws]

RELATED PAPERS AND LECTURES (SELECTED)

“Bridging the Eleemosynary Gap: Public Alternatives to Campaign Financing,” Lecture, Panel contributor at Midwest Economic Association Annual Meeting (1977)

“Implicit Costs in Private Sector Financing of Political Campaigns,” Lecture, Panel contributor at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (1974)

“Market Control, It’s Effect on Product Quality,” Lecture, Panel Contributor at Western Economic Association Annual Meeting (1974)

E. OTHER COURSES TAUGHT

• Contracts I
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Twentieth Century Film
• Intentional Torts
• Introduction to Law

V   PUBLICATIONS  [Not refereed.  Outside evaluators are not common in legal scholarship.]

American Bar Association Legal Guide for Women, (Random House Reference, New York, NY, 2004)
ISBN 0-375-72091-x  Editorial consultant and contributor

“Deconstructing Hearsay’s Structure: Toward a Witness Recollection Definition of Hearsay,” 43 Villanova Law Review 529 (1998)
 
“Privacy: Liberties Under Threat,” in Privacy and the Need for Balance, (New Zealand Publisher’s Association, Wellington, New Zealand, 1997, at 9)

“Magician to Sorcerer: A Book Review of Stephen Nathanson’s What Lawyers Do,” 34 California Western Law Review 529 (1998)

“Supplemental Jurisdiction over Claims in Intervention,” 23 New Mexico Law Review 57 (1993)
 
“The Best Person for the Job: Tomorrow’s Standards for Selecting Supreme Court Justices,” 7 St. John’s Journal of Legal Commentary 127 (1991)

“Entire Case Removal Under 1441(c): Toward a Unified Theory of Additional Parties and Claims in Federal Courts,” 11 Indiana Law Review 555 (1978)

“Rape Reform Legislation: A New Standard of Sexual  Responsibility,” 44 University of Colorado Law Review 185 (1978)

Handbook on Women and the Law in Missouri, (Missouri Public Interest Research Group, St. Louis, Missouri) Editorial consultant to 1974 and revised 1976 editions

“Legal Responsibility in the Market for Blood,” in Economics of Charity, (Institute of Economic Affairs, London, England, 1974)

“The Political Arena: Revolution in the Barriers to Entry,” (with T. Ireland) 1970 Law & Social Order 213
[a publication of the University of Arizona School of Law].

(COMMENT) “Private Label Distribution: Lessening Competition Under the Robinson Patman Act,”
35 University of Chicago Law Review 529 (1968)

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