Professor Staudt received a B.S. in mathematics and a B.A. in philosophy from St.
Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Indiana. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago
Law School, where he was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review. Before joining
the Chicago-Kent faculty in 1978, he practiced with the firm of Hubacheck, Kelly, Rauch
& Kirby for two years, was staff attorney and assistant director of the Pima County,
Arizona Legal Aid Society, and was a clinical fellow and lecturer at the Mandel Legal Aid
Clinic, University of Chicago Law School. 

Professor Staudt is the associate vice president of law, business and technology and a
professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He teaches Copyright Law, Intellectual
Property Strategies, Internet Law, Public Interest Law & Policy and Access to Justice
and Technology. He is director of the Center for Access to Justice & Technology
(CAJT) -- a law school center using Internet resources to improve access to justice with
special emphasis on building Web tools to support legal services advocates, pro bono
volunteers and pro se litigants. Current CAJT projects include the law school’s Public
Interest Certificate program; Access to Justice Author, a collaboration with the Center
for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction to build new computer interfaces for
self-represented litigants; and the Self-Help Web Center at the Cook County Courthouse in
the Daley Center, where law student volunteers help self-represented litigants to use
technology tools developed at CAJT. 

Professor Staudt has written numerous articles and books on technology and law. His most
recent book is a report co-authored by Charles L. Owen, Distinguished Professor of Design
at IIT's Institute of Design, and Edward B. Pedwell, titled Access to Justice:
Meeting the Needs of Self-Represented Litigants. 

Professor Staudt is a member of the ABA Law Practice Management Section’s E-Lawyering
Task Force, the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services and the ABA
TechShow 2006 Planning Board.

Articles

OpenURL

Law Students, Technology and Legal Aid: New Models and New Opportunities, Management Information Exchange Journal (2007)
 

PDF

Technology for Justice Customers: Bridging the Digital Divide Facing Self-Represented Litigants, University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class (2005)
 

Books

Contributions to Books

Peter Seipel, Democracy, Paper and Gray Cats, Festskrift till Peter Seipel (2006)
 

Emerging Technologies and the Tax Practitioner, Proceedings of New York University's Fifty-Fifth Institute on Federal Taxation (1997)
 

Supplement, Litigation Support Systems 2d: An Attorney's Guide (1994)
 

Practical Applications of Document Assembly Systems, Law, Decision-Making and Microcomputers: A Cross-National Perspective (1991)
 

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