RESUME OF DOLORES A. DONOVAN

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1 University of San Francisco School of Law 2130 Fulton Street, Kendrick Hall San Francisco, California T: F EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: August, 1975 to present: Professor of Law, University of San Francisco. Courses: Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Practice, Family Law; Comparative Law, Law and International Development, International Human Rights Law, Asian Legal Systems, Chinese Law, Soviet Law (until 1989). Administration: Director, International Program Development, 2006-present; Director, Asian Pacific Legal Studies Program, ; Co-Director, Cambodian Law and Democracy Program ( ). May, 2003 to July, 2005: Senior Regional Equity Advisor for South Asia (USAID/India) and team leader for the South Asia Regional Initiative on Equity for Women and Children, a regional program encompassing Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka and focusing on anti-trafficking and rule of law programs. Certified CTO. August, 1998-June, 1999: Fulbright Scholar, Ethiopia. Advised on institutional and curriculum development at the Ethiopian Civil Service College, the national educational institute for the training of judges, prosecutors and other civil servants. Taught Ethiopian Criminal Procedure and lectured in Comparative Constitutional Law and Family Law. June, 1997: Lecturer, Comparative Law, USF - University of Udayana Summer Law Program, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. June-July 1982, 1984, 1986, 1990: Academic Director, Professional Seminar Consultants Legal Study Tours: U.S.S.R., 1982, 1984; East Asia and Thailand, 1986; Indonesia, June-July 1983, 1985, 1990: Director, University of San Francisco - Trinity College Summer Law Program, Dublin, Ireland. Lecturer in Comparative Criminal Law, Comparative Law, Comparative Family Law. January-June, 1981: Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School. July, 1973 to August, 1975: Private practice in the partnership of Donovan and Ryan. The bulk of the practice was in the areas of criminal and military law. Spent several months in Calcutta and New Delhi, India, as counsel to two Americans charged with espionage under the Indian Official Secrets Act. April, 1972 to June, 1973: One of the trial counsel to Daniel Ellsberg in the case of United States v. Russo & Ellsberg, No (WMB) - CD, also known as the Pentagon Papers case. Russo and Ellsberg (the Pentagon Papers trial). November, 1971 to April, 1972: Staff attorney in the case of United States v. Ahmad, Crim. No.14, 950 (M.D., Pa.), also known as the Harrisburg 7 case, involving Father Philip Berrigan and others. Page 1 of 6

2 March, 1970 to November, 1971: Staff attorney for the Lawyers Military Defense Committee Saigon, South Vietnam. Defended enlisted personnel in courts martial. (LMDC began as a foundation-funded project to provide free legal assistance to servicemen and women in Vietnam. It later became affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union.) CONSULTANCIES: Governments, IGO s, NGO s Kazakhstan Institute for Management, Economics and Research (KIMEP), Almaty, Kazakhstan. Program design for graduate program in international business transactions. U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Ethiopia, May 2001: Designed conflict resolution project aimed at lessening clan warfare among the Somali clans in Ethiopia s Somali Region. Project to be administered by Save the Children. U.S. State Department, Public Diplomacy Section, Ethiopia, December 2000: Consultant on legal education. Ethiopian Civil Service College, May 2000: Consultant and panelist at All-Ethiopian Judicial Conference on the subject of Enforcing the Constitution in Ethiopian Courts. Project Director, University of San Francisco School of Law Cambodia Law and Democracy Program, Co-director for implementation of four-year $4.5 million USAID grant for legal education projects ranging from the training of judges and prosecutors through technical assistance to the University of Phnom Penh to community legal education on a range of subjects including human rights, commercial law and women and the law. Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale University, Project Director, Legal Training Project, June-August 1996, Phnom Penh. Directed training of trainers program on criminal prosecution of massive human rights abuses. Trainees were judges and senior officials of the Cambodian Government. Needs assessment and design of USAID-funded Commercial Law Project for Eastern Indonesia, a Partners for Economic Growth (PEG) project for the University of San Francisco and the University of Udayana, in Denpasar, Bali, 1996 The Government of Cambodia, July - August 1993: Advisor to the Constitutional Drafting Committee (seconded to the Cambodian Government by TAF, at the request of the Minister of Justice). United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC): Member, Working Group on the Constitution, May - June 1993 (seconded to UNTAC by TAF). The Asia Foundation, July March 1993: Advisor on implementation of law reform program, Cambodia. The Asia Foundation, December 1991: Needs assessment and proposal co-author for Page 2 of 6

3 TAF=s first post-war Cambodia program. Resulted in $12 million USAID grant. Catholic Organization for Emergency Refugee Relief (COERR), Nov.-Dec., 1991: Legal training, Site II refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border. Expert Testimony Consultant for defendant on the criminal justice system of the People s Republic of China and international human rights law, U.S. v. Eng, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco, Jan. - June, Case settled. Consultant for defendant on the Singaporean criminal justice system, U.S. vs. Bustamante, March Case settled. Consultant for plaintiff on the legal system of Taiwan, In re the Matter of Wu, San Francisco Superior Court, June Judgment for plaintiff. Consultant for plaintiff on the status of women under the laws of the People=s Republic of China, Ong v. Fong, March Case settled. PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS: Rebuilding Cambodia: Human Resources, Human Rights and Law (Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., 1992) Ed. F. Brown; three essays by Donovan, D., Muscat, R., and Jones, S. Prosecutorial and Judicial Misconduct (C.E.B., Univ. of California, 1979). ARTICLES AND PAPERS: Human Rights, Federalism and Customary Law: Homicide in Ethiopia, American Journal of Comparative Law (2003). Leveling the Playing Field: The Judicial Duty to Protect and Enforce the Constitutional Rights of Accused Persons Unrepresented by Counsel, 1 Ethiopian L. Rev. C (2002) Codification in Developing Nations: Ritual and Symbol in Cambodia and Indonesia," 31 U.C. Davis L.Rev. 693 (1998). The Impact of Legal Culture on Democratization in Developing Nations: Cambodia, Conference Proceedings, Symposium on Democratization in the 1990's, Nagoya University, Japan (September 1996) (with Jeffrey S. Brand). The Commercial Laws of Cambodia, in Commercial Laws in East Asia, Sweet & Maxwell (1996) (with Jeffrey S. Brand). Cambodia: Building a Legal System from Scratch, 27 Int l Law. 445 (1993). Page 3 of 6

4 "The Structure of the Chinese Criminal Justice System: A Comparative Perspective," 21 U.S.F. 229 (1987) (Chinese Law Symposium). "Informers Revisited: Government Surveillance of Domestic Political Organizations and the Fourth and First Amendments," 33 Buffalo L.Rev. 333 (1984). "Is the Reasonable Man Obsolete? A Critical Perspective on Self-Defense and Provocation," 14 Loyola-L.A. L.Rev. 435 (1981) (with Stephanie Wildman). Teaching Materials: ESSAYS: Ed., The Law of Marriage and the Family in the Kingdom of Cambodia (1996) Ed., Women and Children in Cambodia: Their Rights under International Law (1996) "The Trial of Patty Hearst," The Guide to American Law (West Publishing Company, 1984). "The Ideology of Criminal Intent," The Guide to American Law (West Publishing Company, 1983). PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: Human Rights Watch/Asia, Advisory Committee ( ); Human Rights Watch, California, Executive Committee ( ). Association of American Law Schools: Sections on Criminal Justice (1975-present; Executive Committee ); Comparative Law (1982-present); Women in Legal Education (1975-present; Chairperson, 1985); International Legal Exchanges (2006-present, Executive Committee 2010-present). San Francisco Bar Association, International Law Section, Executive Committee ( ); China Law Committee ( ), Family Law Section (1986-present), Subcommittee on Battered Women ( ). California State Bar, Committees on Human Rights ( ), Jury Instructions ( ) and Legal Services to the Poor ( ). San Francisco Mayor's Shanghai Friendship Committee (1985 to present). San Francisco Mayor's Criminal Justice Planning Committee (1983 to 1985). California Women Lawyers (1973 to 1989; Judicial Evaluation Committee 1986). Page 4 of 6

5 BAR ADMISSIONS: California and Washington, D.C. EDUCATION: GRADUATE: Stanford Law School, J.D. University of California at Berkeley, course work for M.A. in Asian Studies. UNDERGRADUATE: Stanford University, B.A. in History and also in French Language and Literature; Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. LANGUAGES: French (reading ability excellent, speaking and writing ability currently conversational/functional, easily upgradable to fluent/excellent on arrival in a Francophone country - bilingual as child); Spanish (basic conversational, reading and writing ability); Mandarin (studied for two years). SELECTED RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS International Remedies for Violations of Human Rights, November 8, 2010 University of Herat, Afghanistan. American Legal Education, November 28, 2010, The National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. Legal Education in the U.S. and China, November 17, 2009, East China University of Politics and Law, Shanghai, People s Republic of China. "A Comparison of Legal Education in Thailand and the United States," November 11, 2009, Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand. The Rule of Law and Human Rights in the U.S. Post-9/11, October 17, 2007, Conference on Human Rights, National Security and Terrorism, Hong Kong, China, cosponsored by the City University of Hong Kong and the United Nations University. Prevention of the Traffic in Children: The Right to Education and Freedom of Movement, March 2, 2007, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California. The Global Dimensions of Trafficking in Persons, Feb. 3, 2006, USF Regional Conference on Human Trafficking, San Francisco, California. The Global Dimensions of Trafficking in Persons South Asia, A Case Study, November 26, 2005, California Western School of Law, San Diego, California. Law and International Terrorism, May 7, 2002, American Red Cross Annual Page 5 of 6

6 Meeting, San Francisco, California. Law and War, April 20, 2002, U.S. District Court, Northern District Judicial Conference (the federal judiciary), Santa Cruz, California. The Guantanamo Bay Detainees and the Geneva Conventions, March 28, 2002, American Society of International Law Regional Meeting, San Francisco, California. Enforcing the Constitution in Ethiopian Courts, December, 2000, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Judicial Duty to Protect the Constitutional Rights of Defendants without Counsel, May, 2000, All-Ethiopian Judicial Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Human Rights, Federalism and Customary Law: Homicide in Ethiopia, May, 2000, Center for Law and Anthropology, Oxford University, Oxford, England. Page 6 of 6