"What I love about teaching law is the challenge of helping students become
intentionally critical thinkers and actors.I think of this as a two step process.The
first step is getting them to ask critical questions about whatever subject I am teaching
them -- skills, clinic, professional responsibility, family law.The next step is helping
them find their identities as powerful actors in the legal system who can and must make
choices about the kind of professionals they want to be. The goal of all this, of course,
is to show that Law -- or The Legal System -- doesn't simply exist out there to be
'found', but that it is constructed by people just like us -- teachers,
students, ordinary citizens, who pay attention and care about improving the lives of
everyone around them." Education B.A., 1988, Middlebury College J.D., 1994 Brooklyn
Law School 

Experience William Mitchell College of Law: associate professor of law, 2006-. 

Practitioner in residence, Women and Law Clinic, Washington College of Law, American
University, 2004-2006. 

Collaborative law attorney, Divorce Done Differently, 2003-04. 

Assistant clinical professor of law, University of Connecticut School of Law, 1999-2004. 

Adjunct professor, Western New England College of Law, 1997-99. 

Staff attorney, Skadden Fellow, Western Massachusetts Legal Services, 1996-99. 

Clerk, Judge Whitman Knapp, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1994-96. 

Leadership and Service Member, Ethics Committee, Clinical Section, Association of
American Law Schools; Guest Blogger, Clinicians with not enough to do; Member, Women and
Law Section, Association of American Law Schools; Sexual Orientation Section, Association
of American Law Schools; Member, Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Board of
Directors. 

Arts and Literature

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Of Victims, Villains and Fairy Godmothers: Regnant Tales of Predatory Lending, ExpressO (2009)

The subprime mortgage crisis has exposed a system of predatory and irresponsible lending on a...

 

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'Wishin and Hopin and Thinkin and Prayin, Plannin and Dreamin:' The Narrative Theor[ies] of Predatory Lending, ExpressO (2009)

This is an article that uses a predatory lending case as a vehicle to examine...

 

Banking and Finance

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Of Victims, Villains and Fairy Godmothers: Regnant Tales of Predatory Lending, ExpressO (2009)

The subprime mortgage crisis has exposed a system of predatory and irresponsible lending on a...

 

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'Wishin and Hopin and Thinkin and Prayin, Plannin and Dreamin:' The Narrative Theor[ies] of Predatory Lending, ExpressO (2009)

This is an article that uses a predatory lending case as a vehicle to examine...

 

Consumer Protection Law

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Of Victims, Villains and Fairy Godmothers: Regnant Tales of Predatory Lending, ExpressO (2009)

The subprime mortgage crisis has exposed a system of predatory and irresponsible lending on a...

 

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'Wishin and Hopin and Thinkin and Prayin, Plannin and Dreamin:' The Narrative Theor[ies] of Predatory Lending, ExpressO (2009)

This is an article that uses a predatory lending case as a vehicle to examine...

 

Economics

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'Wishin and Hopin and Thinkin and Prayin, Plannin and Dreamin:' The Narrative Theor[ies] of Predatory Lending, ExpressO (2009)

This is an article that uses a predatory lending case as a vehicle to examine...

 

Law and Economics

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'Wishin and Hopin and Thinkin and Prayin, Plannin and Dreamin:' The Narrative Theor[ies] of Predatory Lending, ExpressO (2009)

This is an article that uses a predatory lending case as a vehicle to examine...

 

Law and Society

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Of Victims, Villains and Fairy Godmothers: Regnant Tales of Predatory Lending, ExpressO (2009)

The subprime mortgage crisis has exposed a system of predatory and irresponsible lending on a...

 

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'Wishin and Hopin and Thinkin and Prayin, Plannin and Dreamin:' The Narrative Theor[ies] of Predatory Lending, ExpressO (2009)

This is an article that uses a predatory lending case as a vehicle to examine...

 

legal education

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Flies on the Wall or in the Ointment? Some Thoughts on the Role of Supervisors at Initial Client Interviews, Clinical Law Review (2008)
This article uses the question of whether or not supervisors attend client interviews with their...
 

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A Persistent Critique: Constructing Client Stories, Clinical Law Review (2006)
In this article I explore the representation of transgender clients to see what lawyering theory...
 

Legal Profession

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Of Victims, Villains and Fairy Godmothers: Regnant Tales of Predatory Lending, ExpressO (2009)

The subprime mortgage crisis has exposed a system of predatory and irresponsible lending on a...

 

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'Wishin and Hopin and Thinkin and Prayin, Plannin and Dreamin:' The Narrative Theor[ies] of Predatory Lending, ExpressO (2009)

This is an article that uses a predatory lending case as a vehicle to examine...

 

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“ONCE UPON A TIME, IN A LAND FAR, FAR AWAY . . .” Lawyers and Clients Telling Stories About Ethics (and Everything Else), ExpressO (2008)

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Framed by an analysis of two particular ethical rules and their application to...

 

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"Once Upon A Time, In a Land Far, Far Away:" Lawyers and Clients Telling Stories About Ethics (And Everything Else) (2008)

Framed by an analysis of two particular ethical rules and their application to specific situations,...

 

Practice and Procedure

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“ONCE UPON A TIME, IN A LAND FAR, FAR AWAY . . .” Lawyers and Clients Telling Stories About Ethics (and Everything Else), ExpressO (2008)

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Framed by an analysis of two particular ethical rules and their application to...

 

Professional Ethics

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“ONCE UPON A TIME, IN A LAND FAR, FAR AWAY . . .” Lawyers and Clients Telling Stories About Ethics (and Everything Else), ExpressO (2008)

ABSTRACT

Framed by an analysis of two particular ethical rules and their application to...

 

Social Welfare

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Of Victims, Villains and Fairy Godmothers: Regnant Tales of Predatory Lending, ExpressO (2009)

The subprime mortgage crisis has exposed a system of predatory and irresponsible lending on a...