JOAN W. HOWARTH Professor of Law Michigan State University College of Law

JOAN W. HOWARTH
Professor of Law
Michigan State University College of Law
368 Law College Bldg, East Lansing, MI 48824
(517) 432-6993; (517) 432-6801 (fax)
[email protected]
EMPLOYMENT
2016 – present, Professor of Law
2016 - 2017, Consultant to Provost, Michigan State University
2008 – 2016, Dean and Professor of Law
Michigan State University College of Law
2003 – 2008, William S. Boyd Professor of Law
2004 – 2007, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
2003 - 2004, Associate Dean for Clinical Studies
2001 - 2008, Professor of Law
William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV
2000-2001, Scholar in Residence, Boalt Center for Social Justice, and
Visiting Professor of Law
University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall)
Spring 2000, Visiting Professor of Law
University of California at Davis (King Hall)
Fall 1999, Visiting Professor of Law
University of California, Hastings College of Law
1994 - 2001, Professor of Law
1991 - 1994, Associate Professor
1990 - 1991, Visiting Assistant Professor
Golden Gate University, School of Law
1989-1990, Visiting Acting Professor
University of California at Davis (King Hall)
1988-1989, Associate Director
1987-1988, Assistant Legal Director
1984-1987, Staff Attorney
ACLU Foundation of Southern California
1981-1983, Deputy
Office of the (California) State Public Defender
1980-1981, Grey Teaching Fellow
Stanford Law School
EDUCATION
1980, J.D., University of Southern California
1972, A.B., Religion/English, Smith College
HONORS
2003 – 2008, William S. Boyd Professorship
1993, John A. Gorfinkel Award (outstanding instructor, Golden Gate
University School of Law)
1980, Order of the Coif, USC (class rank = 3)
1978-1980, Member, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW
PUBLICATIONS
Writing Specialist as Rescue Club, THE SECOND DRAFT: THE LEGAL
WRITING INSTITUTE (Spring 2016)
Professor John "Jack" Apol 1941-2012: In Memoriam – "I Really Love
the
Chanting", 2012 MICH. ST. L. REV.1097 (2012)
Introduction: Lawyers as Conservators? 2012 MICH. ST. L. REV. 243
(2012)
Teaching Freedom: Exclusionary Rights of Student Organizations, 42
U.C. DAVIS LAW REVIEW 889 (2009)
Recruiting Sexual Minorities and People with Disabilities to be Dean, 31
SEATTLE L. REV. 751 (2008)
The Geronimo Bank Murders: A Gay Tragedy, 17 LAW AND SEXUALITY
39 (2008); reprinted in Crime and Punishment, Vol. II by Prof.
Ruthann Robson, Ashgate Library of Essays on Sexuality and Law
Series (May 2011)
Adventures in Heteronormativity: The Straight Line from Liberace to
Lawrence, 5 NEV. L. J. 260 (2004)
Executing White Masculinities: Lessons from Karla Faye Tucker, 81
ORE. L. REV. 183 (2002)
Empirical Studies Add to Death Penalty Debate, NEVADA LAWYER (Aug.
2002)
Toward the Restorative Constitution: A Restorative Justice Critique of
Anti-gang Public Nuisance Injunctions, 27 HASTINGS CONST. L. Q.
717 (2000)
Women Defenders on Television: Representing Suspects and the Racial
Politics of Retribution, 3 J. OF GENDER, RACE, AND JUSTICE 475
(2000)
Lesbian Legal Theory, in LESBIAN HISTORIES AND CULTURES: AN
ENCYCLOPEDIA, Zimmerman, ed. (Garland 2000)
Teaching in the Shadow of the Bar, 31 USF L. REV. 927 (1997)
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Representing Black Male Innocence, 1 J. OF GENDER, RACE AND JUSTICE
97 (1997)
First and Last Chance: Looking for Lesbians in California’s Fifties Bar
Cases, 5 SO. CAL. REV. OF LAW & WOMEN'S STUDIES (1995)
Deciding to Kill: Revealing the Gender in the Task Handed to Capital
Jurors, 1994 WIS. L. REV. 1345; excerpted in Bartlett & Harris,
GENDER AND LAW: THEORY, DOCTRINE, & COMMENTARY (Aspen
1998)
Feminism, Lawyering, and Death Row, 2 SO. CAL. REV. OF LAW &
WOMEN'S STUDIES 401 (1992)
Prisons Within Prisons, chapter in PRISONERS AND THE LAW, Robbins, ed.,
(Boardman 1985)
Chair, Editorial Board, MY STORY'S ON: ORDINARY WOMEN;
EXTRAORDINARY LIVES, Common Differences Press (1985)
(anthology)
Note: The Rights of Gay Prisoners: A Challenge to Protective Custody, 53
SO.CAL.L.REV. 1225 (1980)
Evolution of a Feminist Art: Public Forms & Social issues, HERESIES, A
JOURNAL OF ART AND POLITICS, Spring 1979 (co-author)
A Feminist Theory of Power: A Critique, QUEST: A FEMINIST QUARTERLY,
Summer 1976
PROFESSIONAL
LEADERSHIP
Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Founding Member,
Steering Committee of Deans Forum, 2014-2016
State Bar of Michigan, 21st Century Practice Task Force, 2015-2016;
Modernizing the Regulatory Machinery Committee; Standing
Committee on Law School Deans, 2008-2016
Invited Participant, National Conference of Bar Examiners Annual
Conference, Wash., D.C., Apr. 15-16, 2016
Invited Participant, ABA Summit Innovation in Legal Services, Stanford
Law School, May 10-13, 2015
Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Membership Review
Committee, 2012-2015
Association of American Law Schools (AALS), Special Committee
(Resources Corps), 1996- present
Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), Board of Governors, 19982014; Chair, Nominations Committee, 2005-06; Chair, Board
Retreat Committee, 2004; Member, Bar Exam Committee, 1998present; Member, Nominations Committee, 2004-05; Member,
Teaching Conference Committee, 2004; Chair, SALT Public
Positions Committee, 2000-02
AALS Reporter, American Bar Association (ABA)/AALS Site Visit,
Syracuse University School of Law, Oct. 10-13, 2010
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AALS Reporter, American Bar Association (ABA)/AALS Site Visit, Case
Western Reserve, Mar. 15-18, 2009
Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Steering Committee, Ann Arbor,
(2008-2009)
AALS Reporter, ABA/AALS Site Visit, Rutgers-Camden, Mar. 18-20,
2007
Facilitator, Michigan State University College of Law, Aug. 8-9, 2006
Strategic Planning Consultant, Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic, Seattle
University School of Law, May – July, 2006
AALS Reporter, ABA/AALS Site Visit, Vermont Law School, Mar. 1214, 2006
Planning Committee, Joint Program of Teaching Method and Clinical
Teaching Sections, 2003 AALS Annual Meeting
Chair, Planning Committee, AALS Annual Meeting Workshop, Do You
Know Where Your Students Are? Langdell Logs on to the TwentyFirst Century, New Orleans, Jan. 4, 2002
ABA Site Team Member, University of Dayton School of Law, Mar. 2326, 2001
First District Appellate Project, Board of Directors, 1992 – 2001
ABA Site Team Workshop, Indianapolis, Sept. 9, 2000
Law Faculty Retreat Facilitator, Denver University School of Law, Oct. 89, 1999
Chair, SALT Conference on Re-Examining the Bar Exam, Sept. 25, 1999
Law Faculty Retreat Facilitator, Mississippi College School of Law, Jan.
16-17, 1998
Group Leader, Mills College Summit on Women in Legal Education, Nov.
21-22, 1997
Law Faculty Planning Workshop Facilitator, University of Kentucky
School of Law, Jan.13-14, 1997
Retreat Facilitator, Public Interest Clearing House Board of Directors, San
Francisco, June 15, 1996
Facilitator, AALS Conference on Sexual Orientation and Law Schools,
Washington, D.C.: Oct. 4-5, 1996
State Bar of California Criminal Law Section (Editorial Board), CRIMINAL
LAW NEWS, 1991-92
Death Penalty Focus of California, founding board member, 1987-93
National Committee Against Repressive Legislation, vice-chair, 19761998
Women Against Violence Against Women, founding board member,
1976-82
LAW SCHOOL
LEADERSHIP
Chair, Honor Code Committee, 2005-06; 2006-07
Chair, Planning Committee, 2004-05
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(UNLV)
Chair, Planning and Assessment Committee, 2003-04
Chair, Clinic Committee, 2003-04
Chair, Appointments Committee, 2001-02, 2002-03
UNIVERSITY
LEADERSHIP
(UNLV)
UNLV Planning Council, 2003- 07
Women’s Studies Department Steering Committee, 2002- 2008
Convener, Planning Committee, UNLV Conference on Academic
Freedom (2005)
UNLV Assessment Council, 2004-05
Task Force to Review UNLV Strategic Plans, 2003-04
LAW SCHOOL
Academic Director, Integrated Professional Apprenticeship Curriculum
LEADERSHIP
(IPAC), 1998-2000
(GOLDEN GATE) Chair, Curriculum Committee, 1997- 98
Chair, Long-Range Planning Committee, 1996-98
Chair, Sexual Harassment Task Force, 1994-96
Chair, Curriculum Committee, 1993-94
COURSES
Capital Defense Clinic; Constitutional Law I; Constitutional Law II;
Foundations of Law; Gender, Race, & Criminal Justice; Religion Clauses
Seminar; Sexual Orientation & the Law; Torts; Women & the Law;
SELECTED
Speaker, The –Ism Effect, MSU Law Diversity Week Kick-Off, East
PRESENTATIONS
Lansing, MI, February 15, 2016
Panelist, Town Hall Meeting, State Bar of Michigan 21st Century Practice
Task Force Meeting, Lansing, MI, January 29, 2016
Discussion Leader, Developing and Leading High Functioning Teams in
Higher Education, MSU Dean School, East Lansing, MI, January
15, 2016
Speaker/Discussion Leader, Educating for Justice in Turbulent Times,
MSU Alumni Association Coffee With the Professors, East
Lansing, MI, October 26, 2015
Speaker, Reflections on Glossip v. Gross, American Constitution Society
Event, East Lansing, MI, April 20, 2015
Speaker/Panelist, It Still Takes a Village, LSAC Retention Conference,
Las Vegas, NV, April 8, 2015
Speaker, Women and Leadership (with Jocelyn Benson and Phyllis
Crocker), Women Lawyers Associate of Michigan Foundation
Awards Dinner, Southfield, MI, March 25, 2015
Speaker, Legal Education and the Future of Law, Northeast Association of
Prelaw Advisors Webinar, February 4, 2015
Speaker, Update on Work Being Led by MSU College of Law, East
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Lansing Kiwanis Club, East Lansing, MI, January 19, 2015
Commentator/Panelist, The Case Against 8 movie discussion, Sun
Theatre, Williamston, MI, November 16, 2014
Speaker, Triangle Bar Association National Coming Out Day Event, East
Lansing, MI, October 13, 2014
Panelist, Inns of Court Joint Program with Cooley Law School, East
Lansing, MI, October 8, 2014
Speaker, Winners and Losers in the Supreme Court, MSU Honors College
Sharper Focus Program on The Evolving Nature of Rights,
September 8, 2014
Speaker, Legal Education for the Future, State Bar of Michigan
Leadership Forum, Mackinaw Island, June 13, 2013
Remarks, Portrait Ceremony for Judge Marianne Battani, U.S. Dist. Crt.,
Detroit, June 3, 2013
Speaker, Women In Charge, Women’s Law Caucus, East Lansing, MI,
March 31, 2014
Speaker, Change is Here: A Dean considers Clinics in Uncertain Times,
Clinic Director’s Conference, Plenary Session, San Juan, Puerto
Rico, April 28, 2013
Panelist, Self-Promotion, Women in Law Leadership Council, East
Lansing, MI, February 27, 2013
Panelist, View from the Top: Addressing the Issue of High Education Debt
and the Value of Financial Literacy Programs, Access Group
Financial Aid Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 15, 2012
Keynote Speaker, Triangle Bar Association National Coming Out Day
Event, East Lansing, MI, October 11, 2012
Presenter, Deans’ Perspectives on Student Debt, Society of American
Law Teacher (SALT), University of Maryland, October 4, 2012.
Keynote Speaker, MSU Lavender Reception, East Lansing, MI, April 22,
2012
Moderator, Rethinking our Understanding of Gender Inequality, Gender
and the Legal Profession’s Pipeline to Power Symposium, Detroit,
MI, April 13, 2012
Presenter, Michigan Society of Association Executives (MSAE) meeting
"Reinvent Michigan and Grow with Less", Lansing, MI, March 22,
2012
Facilitator, Conference on Shultz-Zedeck Research on Effective
Lawyering, University of California Berkeley School of Law,
March 2-3, 2012
Group Leader, Plenary III: Tenure and Employment Security, 42nd Annual
ABA Deans’ Workshop, San Diego, CA, February 16-18, 2012
Keynote Speaker, Challenges and Changes in Legal Education and the Legal
Profession, MAPLA Pre-Law Advisors Meeting, Chicago, IL, October
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29, 2011
Small Group Leader, Faculty Appointments Registrants Workshop, 2011
AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference, Washington DC, October
13, 2011
Keynote Speaker, Tell Your Story, Triangle Bar Event, MSU College of
Law, October 11, 2011
Facilitator for AALS Resource Corps, Southern Illinois University
Retreat,
Carbondale, IL, September 16-17, 2011
Panelist, The Justice App, Lawyers as Conservators Symposium, MSU
College of Law, September 9, 2011
Communication with Administration, Deans Panel Discussion, ABA
Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, August 5, 2011
Moving Beyond "Racial Blindsight"? The Influence of Social Science
Evidence after the North Carolina Racial Justice Act, Panel
Moderator, Symposium on Racial Disparity, MSU College of Law
April 7, 2011
Masculinities and Organizational Identity: Considering Law School
Branding, colloquium on Multidimensional Masculinities and
Legal Theory, Boyd School of Law, UNLV, Feb. 19, 2011
Panelist, The Dean’s Role Regarding Diversity, AALS Annual Meeting,
San Francisco, California, January 7, 2011
Speaker, Annual Dinner, Society of American Law Teachers, San
Francisco, California, January 7, 2011
Choosing Subject Matter, Scholarship Plenary Session, AALS Workshop
for New Law Teachers, Washington, DC, June 18, 2010
Setting Priorities and Sticking to Them, ABA Law School Development
Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, June 2, 2010
Presenter, ABA Workshop for New Deans, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, June
1, 2010
Women In Charge: Big Deal, Ho-Hum or Both?, Spartan Women’s
Luncheon, New York City, New York, May 19, 2010
What & Why, Diversity in Law School Leadership, Seattle University,
Sept. 25, 2009
Geronimo Bank Murders: Law, Culture & Science in a Gay Tragedy,
Lyman Briggs College, MSU, Mar. 20, 2009
Michigan Indigent Defense: The Problem, Institute of Public Policy &
Social Research (MSU) Policy Briefing, Lansing, Michigan,
Mar. 19, 2009
Achieving Faculty Diversity, Association of American Law Schools
Annual Meeting, Jan. 7, 2009
Legal Education for Tomorrow, Michigan Assn. of Municipal Attorneys,
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Petoskey, Michigan, Sept. 29, 2008
Masculinities in Capital Punishment, Southeast Association of Law
Schools (SEALS), July 31, 2008
Remembering Trina Grillo, Grillo Retreat, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 8,
2008
Teaching Freedom: Exclusionary Rights of Student Organizations,
UC Davis Law Review First Amendment Symposium, March 7,
2008
Academic Deaning, Deanship Workshop, Seattle University School of
Law, Seattle, Sept. 28, 2007
Welcome to Academic Freedom, UNLV New Faculty Orientation, Aug.
13, 2007
Moderator, Differing Roles and Models of Law Schools, Southeast
Association of Law Schools (SEALS), Amelia Island, Florida, Aug
2nd, 2007
Law: A Language of Power, NEW Leadership Nevada, Las Vegas, June 4,
2007
Zealous Advocacy, 2007 Gender and Law Symposium, Santa Clara
University School of Law, Apr. 20, 2007
Lawrence and Nevada, Sexuality and Gender Equity Program, Boyd
School of Law, Mar. 29, 2007
State Constitutional Approaches to Same-Sex Marriage, Sociology of
Sexuality, UNLV, Dec. 5, 2006
Moderator, Opportunities for Collaboration, Mountain West Regional
Clinical Conference, Boyd School of Law, Nov. 18, 2006
Lat-Crit Does Liberace, Lat-Crit XI, Boyd School of Law, Oct. 8, 2006
Moderator, Academics and Practitioners on Legal Issues Affecting
Immigrants, Lat-Crit XI, Boyd School of Law, Oct. 7, 2006
Zealous Advocacy: United States v. Lynne Stewart, Boyd School of Law,
Oct. 6, 2006
Academic Freedom for UNLV Faculty, New Faculty Orientation, UNLV,
Aug. 14, 2006
The Boyd School of Law Today & Tomorrow, Las Vegas Rotary,
July 20, 2006
Moderator, Kelo v. New London Debate, Federalist Society, Boyd School
of Law, Nov. 17, 2005
Moderator, Demeanor of Democracy: Civility in Public Discourse, UNLV
Center for Democratic Culture, Nov. 15, 2005
The Living Constitution: Response to Judge Hug, National Judicial
College, University of Nevada, Reno, Sept. 21, 2005
Bar Exam Alternatives, Society of American Teachers (SALT) Program at
Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Clinical
Conference, Chicago, Apr. 30, 2005
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Constraints on Social Justice Lawyering, Grillo Public Interest and Social
Justice Retreat, San Jose, Mar. 13, 2005
Adventures in Heteronormativity, Faculty Colloquium, Boyd School of
Law, Feb. 23, 2005
The Hyper-Active Nevada Cut-Score, AALS Annual Meeting, San
Francisco, Jan. 7, 2005
Moderator, Organizing Las Vegas, Class in the Classroom, SALT
Teaching Conference, Boyd School of Law, Oct. 16, 2004
Adventures in Heteronormativity, Equal Justice in the West Symposium,
Boyd School of Law, Feb. 21, 2004
Incorporating Skills Training in Attorney Licensing, Symposium, GEO. ST.
L. REV., Atlanta, Jan. 29, 2004
Classroom Incivilities, AALS Section on Teaching Methods, Atlanta,
Georgia, Jan. 5, 2004
Condemning Homosexuality: Gays and Lesbians on Death Row, Seattle
University, Law and Sexuality: Assimilation and Resistance, Sept.
21, 2003
Women, Feminism, and the Death Penalty, University of Oregon, Mar. 6,
2002
Testimony on Gender and Racial Bias, Hearing, Nevada Joint Legislative
Committee to Study the Death Penalty, Jan. 24, 2002
Moderator, Barriers to Connecting with Twenty-first Century Students,
AALS Annual Meeting, New Orleans: Jan. 3rd, 2002
The Role of the Faculty, Boyd School of Law, Nov., 2001
Sexual Orientation Evidence as Aggravation in Capital Cases, Faculty
Colloquium, University of San Francisco, Apr. 18, 2001
Institution Building, AALS Colloquia on Access to Equal Justice, Boalt
Hall, Mar. 17, 2001
Racing Sexual Identity, Joint Program of Sections on Gay and Lesbian
Legal Issues and Minority Groups, AALS Annual Meeting, San
Francisco: Jan. 3, 2001
Faculty Engagement with Bar Exam Readiness, Program of Section on
Academic Support, AALS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Jan.6,
2001
Feminist Critique of the Death Penalty, Panel, Committing to Conscience
National Conference, San Francisco, Nov. 18, 2000
Gender and Capital Punishment, Opening Plenary, Committing to
Conscience National Conference, San Francisco, Nov. 18, 2000
High-stakes Testing Plenary, SALT Teaching Conference, NYU, Oct. 21,
2000
Latinas on Death Row: Motherhood, Mental Illness & Fear, LatCrit V,
Breckenridge, CO., May 7, 2000
A Restorative Justice Critique of Anti-Gang Public Nuisance Injunctions
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Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly Symposium, Mar.21, 2000
A Legal History of Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Lambda Forum, U.C.
Davis School of Law, Feb. 21, 2000
Holding Onto the Dream, Hastings Public Interest Foundation, Nov. 17,
1999
Feminist Sex Wars, Clara Foltz Society, Hastings College of Law, Nov.
15, 1999
Women’s Rights and Wrongs in the Supreme Court, Medford Leas, N.J.,
Oct. 30, 1999
Women Defenders: Weak Mothers, Saps, & Race Traitors, Univ. of Iowa
School of Law, Nov. 5, 1998
Resolved: President Clinton Should Not Be Impeached, Helzel
Foundation Forum, Golden Gate University School of Law, Oct.
19, 1998
Classroom Climate Control, 23rd National Conference on Women and the
Law, Mar. 21, 1998
Teaching in the Shadow of the Bar, Grillo Symposium, University
of San Francisco School of Law: Mar. 15, 1997
Facilitating Change by Law School Faculties, AALS Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C., Jan. 8, 1997
Life Without Possibility, Symposium: Racial Justice, Criminal
Injustice, University of California (Boalt Hall), Mar. 8, 1997
Representing Black Male Innocence, Faculty Colloquium, University of
California at Davis, Nov. 21, 1996
Representing Black Male Innocence, Symposium: Who Gets Justice,
University of Iowa College of Law: Oct. 13-14, 1997
Small Group Leader & Presenter, AALS Teaching Conference (New Ideas
for Experienced Teachers), University of Minnesota: June 2-6,
1995
Redefining Authority, Society of American Law Teachers Teaching
Conference, University of Minnesota, Sept. 26, 1994
Taking Risks in Teaching Torts, SALT Teaching Conference, Santa Clara
University, Oct. 29, 1993
Graduation Speaker, Public Interest Law Program, Hastings College of
Law, April 1992
Gays and Lesbians in Legal Education, Bay Area Conference on Careers
in Law Teaching, Consortium of Bay Area Law Schools, Hastings
College of Law, Apr. 13, 1991
Careers in Legal Education, Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom
Conference, Stanford University, Nov. 17, 1990
Feminist Sex Wars, University of Southern California Institute for the
Study of Women and Men, May 7, 1987
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PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS
AALS Sections on Clinical Education, Sexual Orientation and
Gender Identity Issues, Teaching Methods, & Women in Legal Education;
ABA Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities; ACLU; Clinical
Legal Educators Association; Society of American Law Teachers
MEDIA
National and local coverage and appearances, including ABC, CBS, CNN,
NBC, PBS, Cross Fire, McNeil-Lehrer Report, MS MAGAZINE,
NEWSWEEK.
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