2008 present, Dean and Professor of Law Michigan State University College of Law

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1 JOAN W. HOWARTH Dean and Professor of Law Michigan State University College of Law 368 Law College Bldg, East Lansing, MI (517) ; (517) (fax) EMPLOYMENT 2008 present, Dean and Professor of Law Michigan State University College of Law , William S. Boyd Professor of Law , Associate Dean for Academic Affairs , Associate Dean for Clinical Studies , Professor of Law William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV , 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 , Professor of Law , Associate Professor , Visiting Assistant Professor Golden Gate University, School of Law , Visiting Acting Professor University of California at Davis (King Hall) , Associate Director , Assistant Legal Director , Staff Attorney ACLU Foundation of Southern California , Deputy Office of the (California) State Public Defender , Teaching Fellow Stanford Law School

2 EDUCATION HONORS 1980, J.D., University of Southern California 1972, A.B., Religion, Smith College , 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) , Member, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW PUBLICATIONS The Geronimo Bank Murders: A Gay Tragedy, 17 LAW AND SEXUALITY 39 (2008), to be reprinted in Crime and Punishment II by Prof. Ruthann Robson, Ashgate Library of Essays on Sexuality and Law Series (Forthcoming June 2011) 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); 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) 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 2

3 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 (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), Special Committee (Resources Corps), present Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), Board of Governors, present; Chair, Nominations Committee, ; Chair, Board Retreat Committee, 2004; Member, Bar Exam Committee, present; Member, Nominations Committee, ; Member, Teaching Conference Committee, 2004; Chair, SALT Public Positions Committee, AALS Reporter, American Bar Association (ABA)/AALS Site Visit, Case Western Reserve, Mar , 2009 AALS Reporter, ABA/AALS Site Visit, Rutgers-Camden, Mar , 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 , 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 Twenty- First Century, New Orleans, Jan. 4, 2002 ABA Site Team Member, University of Dayton School of Law, Mar , 2001 First District Appellate Project, Board of Directors, ABA Site Team Workshop, Indianapolis, Sept. 9, 2000 Law Faculty Retreat Facilitator, Denver University School of Law, Oct. 8-3

4 9, 1999 Chair, SALT Conference on Re-Examining the Bar Exam, Sept. 25, 1999 Law Faculty Retreat Facilitator, Mississippi College School of Law, Jan , 1998 Group Leader, Mills College Summit on Women in Legal Education, Nov , 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, Death Penalty Focus of California, founding board member, National Committee Against Repressive Legislation, vice-chair, Women Against Violence Against Women, founding board member, LAW SCHOOL Chair, Honor Code Committee, ; LEADERSHIP Chair, Planning Committee, (UNLV) Chair, Planning and Assessment Committee, Chair, Clinic Committee, Chair, Appointments Committee, , UNIVERSITY UNLV Planning Council, LEADERSHIP Women s Studies Department Steering Committee, Convener, Planning Committee, UNLV Conference on Academic Freedom (2005) UNLV Assessment Council, Task Force to Review UNLV Strategic Plans, LAW SCHOOL Academic Director, Integrated Professional Apprenticeship Curriculum LEADERSHIP (IPAC), (GOLDEN GATE) Chair, Curriculum Committee, Chair, Long-Range Planning Committee, Chair, Sexual Harassment Task Force,

5 Chair, Curriculum Committee, COURSES Constitutional Law I; Constitutional Law II; Capital Defense Clinic; Religion Clauses Seminar; Gender, Race, & Criminal Justice; Sexual Orientation & the Law; Torts; Women & the Law PRESENTATIONS The Dean s Role Regarding Diversity, Panelist, 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, 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 2 nd,

6 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 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 6

7 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. 3 rd, 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 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,

8 Classroom Climate Control, 23 rd 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 , 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 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. 8