ALICIA BROKARS KELLY

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1 ALICIA BROKARS KELLY Widener University School of Law 4601 Concord Pike P.O. Box 7474 Wilmington DE (302) ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT COURSES TAUGHT COURSES TAUGHT COURSES TAUGHT Widener University School of Law, Wilmington DE Associate Professor of Law July Present Family Law Comparative & International Family Law Federal Income Taxation Money, Intimacy & Law Seminar Professional Responsibility Property I; Property II Wills & Trusts Western State University College of Law, Fullerton, CA Assistant Professor of Law July 1999 June 2001 Property I; Property II Community Property Professional Skills II (Transaction based Client Problem Solving; Interviewing; Negotiation; Counseling & Drafting) Torts II Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, PA Honorable Abraham L. Freedman Fellow July June 1999 Professional Responsibility Property (collaboration with Prof. Jane Baron) Integrated Transactional Program (year long 10 credit course) combining: Trust and Estates (collaboration with Prof. Nancy Knauer) & Professional Responsibility (collaboration with Prof. Eleanor Myers) Income Taxation (collaboration with Asst. Dean Robert Bartow) Estate and Gift Taxation (collaboration with Prof. Nancy Knauer) Legal Research and Writing I Legal Research and Writing II (Oral Advocacy)

2 ALICIA BROKARS KELLY Page 2 LAW PRACTICE EXPERIENCE 1997) Associate Attorney, Berryhill, Cage & North, Denver, CO Handled all aspects of full caseload specializing in complex domestic relations and civil litigation, including domestic abuse; adoption; custody; parental rights; support; paternity; equitable distribution; emancipation; contracts; negligence; commercial banking; real estate; corporate transactions. (September June, Associate Attorney, Feder, Morris, Tamblyn & Goldstein, Denver, CO Specializing in complex domestic relations and civil litigation as specifically described above. (March August 1996) Associate Attorney, Hofstein & Widman, P.C., Philadelphia, PA Specializing in complex domestic relations as specifically described above. (October June 1994) Trained Mediator, Philadelphia Housing Court, Philadelphia, PA Provided mediation to assist in resolving landlord/tenant disputes. (Temple University School of Law Clinical Program) (January May 1992) Law Clerk, Honorable Judge William F. Hall, Jr. United States District Court Magistrate, Philadelphia, PA. Experience (as student) includes legal research, drafting judicial opinions and memoranda in response to Habeas Corpus Petitions and reviewing Social Security Disability Decisions. (December January 1992) Law Clerk, Honorable Judge Tama Myers-Clark, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia, PA Concentrating primarily in cases of sexual abuse of minors, experience (as student) includes legal research, drafting memoranda, appeals. (May September 1990) Legal Advocate/Counselor Women Organized Against Rape, Philadelphia, PA Provided both legal and psychological counseling at Philadelphia Family Court to children who were victims of sexual abuse; designed and created self-help guide for young male rape victims. (September April 1989)

3 ALICIA BROKARS KELLY Page 3 SCHOLARSHIP ARTICLES Money Matters in Marriage: Unmasking Interdependence in Ongoing Spousal Economic Relations, (forthcoming LOUISVILLE L. REV. 2008). Rehabilitating Partnership Marriage As A Theory of Wealth Distribution at Divorce: In Recognition of A Shared Life, 19 WIS. WOMEN S L.J. 141 (2004). *Reprinted in part (11 page excerpt) in CASES AND MATERIALS ON FAMILY LAW, Judith C. Areen & Milton C. Regan, Jr., 4th & 5 th ed. (2004 & 2006). Explaining Intuitions: Relating Mergers, Contribution, And Loss In the ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, 8 DUKE J.OF GENDER L. & POL Y, 185 (2001). The Marital Partnership Pretense and Career Assets: The Ascendancy of Self Over the Marital Community, 81 BOSTON UNIV. L. REV. 59 (2001). *Reprinted in part in LAW AND POLICY: A SOCIO-ECONOMIC APPROACH, 64-74, Lynne L. Dallas (2003). Sharing a Piece of the Future Post-Divorce: Toward A More Equitable Distribution of Professional Goodwill, 51 RUTGERS L. REV. 569 (1999). What to Do With the Client Who Lies or Intends to Lie, In or Out of Court, 9 AM. J. FAM. L. 75 (1995) (with David Hofstein). WORKS IN PROGESS Interdependent Behavior as a Foundation for Economic Rights In Adult Intimate Relationships. An Exploration of Property Rights Within the Family for Victims of Domestic. The Potential Virtues of A Monopoly on Love in Law OTHER PUBLICATIONS What Every Family Law Lawyer Should Know About Wiretapping (Pennsylvania Bar Institute) Special Rules for Children Caught in the Fire of Custody Litigation (Pennsylvania Bar Institute) Third Party Rights to Custody (For volunteer attorney training for KIDSCAP (custody issues)

4 ALICIA BROKARS KELLY Page 4 EDUCATION LL.M. in Legal Education, May 1999 Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Degree awarded upon completion of Honorable Abraham L. Freedman Fellowship HONORS J.D., Cum Laude, 1992 Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania GPA 3.43; Top Ten Percent (10%) of Class, Member of Dean's List Every Semester Horace Brown Scholarship for Academic Merit American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Award for Excellence in Matrimonial Law American Jurisprudence Awards for Excellence in: Contract Law; Contract Remedies; Civil Rights of the Handicapped B.A., Political Science, 1989 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA HONORS Magna Cum Laude, GPA 3.6 Awarded Full Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement Member of Honors Program Member of Dean's List Every Semester Completed 4 Year Undergraduate Program in 3 Years PRESENTATIONS Money Matters In Marriage, Presented at THE EMERGING FAMILY LAW SCHOLARS CONFERENCE, Cardozo School Of Law, in New York, June Teaching to Millenials, Presented at THE EMERGING FAMILY LAW SCHOLARS CONFERENCE, Cardozo School Of Law, in New York, NY, June Unmasking Interdependence: Reforming the Upside-Down Rules Structuring Ongoing Property Relations During Marriage, Presented at the Regional Conference of THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FAMILY LAW in Vancouver, Canada, June Intractable Inequality: The Continuing Conflict of Money, Gender and Power in Families, Presented to the WOMEN S LAW CAUCUS at Widener Univ. School of Law, Wilmington, DE, Oct An Exploration of Property Rights Within the Family for Victims of Domestic Violence, Presented at symposium: TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK V GONZALES: ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE AGE OF DENIAL, at the University Of Denver College Of Law, Denver CO, March ALICIA BROKARS KELLY Page 5

5 Battered Again? Re-Victimizing Victims of Domestic Violence, moderator and co-organizer of all day symposium exploring how the law might additionally oppress victims of intimate violence, Widener Univ. School of Law, Wilmington DE, April Rehabilitating Partnership Marriage As a Theory of Wealth Distribution at Divorce, Presented at THE PENNSYLVANIA & OHIO WOMEN S LAW TEACHERS ANNUAL CONFERENCE: UPDATE FOR FEMINIST LAW PROFESSORS, Duquesne Law School, Pittsburgh, PA, February Rehabilitating Partnership Marriage As a Theory of Wealth Distribution at Divorce, Presented at the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FAMILY LAW Regional Conference at the University Of Oregon Law School, Portland OR, June Explaining Intuitions: Relating Mergers, Contribution, And Loss In the ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution Presented at THE PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE VALLEY WOMEN LAW TEACHERS ANNUAL CONFERENCE: UPDATE FOR FEMINIST LAW PROFESSORS, Philadelphia PA, February Legal Ethics in the Year 2000, Symposium on Professionalism and Ethics, Chapman University School of Law & Orange County Bar Association, January Sharing the Future Post-Divorce: Dividing Goodwill in a Professional Practice, Presented at THE PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE VALLEY WOMEN LAW TEACHERS ANNUAL CONFERENCE: UPDATE FOR FEMINIST LAW PROFESSORS, Philadelphia PA, February PUBLIC SERVICE/ PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Secretary/Treasurer, AALS Section on Family Law (2008-present) Executive Committee, AALS Section on Family Law (2005-present) Chair, Mentor Program, Executive Committee, AALS Section on Family Law (2007-present) Executive Committee, AALS Section on Women In Legal Education (2005- present) Representative for Pennsylvania and Delaware Valley Feminist Law Teachers (2002-present) Faculty Advisor to Women s Law Caucus (2003- present)

6 ALICIA BROKARS KELLY Page 6 Planning Committee for AALS Section Program on Women in Legal Education (2001) Domestic Violence Training and Education (Fall 2000) Volunteer for Law, Education and Participation Project ("LEAP") (legal education and outreach to urban students) ( ) Volunteer Attorney for Restraining Order Project in Denver District Court ( ) Volunteer Attorney for Denver District Court Legal Information Office ( ) Volunteer Attorney for KIDSCAP custody project ( ) Member of International Society Of Family Law Member of Feminist Law Professors Member of American Bar Association LICENSES Admitted to Pennsylvania Bar, 1992 Admitted to Colorado Bar, 1994