Professor Steinman received her bachelor's degree in philosophy from the
University of Rochester and her law degree from Harvard Law School, where she served on
the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. She was admitted to the Illinois Bar
in 1973 and practiced with the Chicago law firm of Schiff Hardin & Waite from 1973 to
1977, specializing in civil litigation. Professor Steinman joined the faculty of
Chicago-Kent in 1977 and served as interim dean in 1990-91. She has authored articles on
the associational privacy privilege in civil litigation, class actions, suits for money
damages to vindicate First Amendment rights, pseudonymous litigation, law of the case
doctrine, removal, supplemental jurisdiction, the effects of case consolidation on
litigants' procedural rights, appellate jurisdiction and other procedural issues.
She is responsible for two volumes of the Wright, et al., Federal Practice and Procedure
Treatise.
Professor Steinman was the 1992 chair of the Association of American Law Schools Complex
Litigation Committee of the Civil Procedure Section. She was a member of the American Law
Institute Complex Litigation Project Consultative Group, has served on the executive
committee of the AALS Civil Procedure Section, and has been a master in the Chicago
Lincoln American Inn of Court. Most recently, she has been an adviser on the A.L.I.
Federal Judicial Code Revision project. She teaches courses in civil procedure, complex
litigation, appellate courts and federal courts. In 1989, Professor Steinman was named a
Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar.
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