University of Houston Law Center! Houston, Texas 77204-6060 Phone: 713-743- 2019! Fax: 713-743- 2256! E- Mail: mduncan@uh.edu Experience University of Houston Law Center George Butler Research Professor of Law, May 2005- present Associate Professor of Law, September 2004- present Assistant Professor of Law, May 1998- September 2004 Teach in the areas of Professional Responsibility, Legal Ethics, Torts, Criminal Law, and Sexual Assault Law Pepperdine University School of Law Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Law Clerk to the Honorable Edith H. Jones Ahmad & Zavitsanos, P.C. Associate Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P. Associate Texas Resource Center Summer Intern Baker & Botts, L.L.P. Legal Assistant 1998- present Fall 2007 Aug. 1993- Aug. 1994; Sept. 1996- May1998 June 1996- Sept. 1996 Sept. 1994- Jan. 1996 May- August 1991 Jan. 1989- June 1990 Education J.D. University of Houston Law Center, 1993, magna cum laude Houston Law Review, Articles Editor Order of the Coif Order of the Barons Recipient of 1992 Looper, Reed, Mark & McGraw Award for outstanding paper in business or family law Recipient of Legal Research and Writing Award Black Law Students Association B.A. Northwestern University, 1988, Political Science
Page 2 Publications Lafler and Frye: Strickland Revitalized?, 25 FED. SENT G REP. 144 (Dec. 2012) (solicited) TORT LAW: A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH (Thomson- West, 2d ed., 2012) (co- author with Ronald Turner) Personal Tort Law, 63 S.M.U. L. REV. 717 (2010) TORT LAW: A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH (Thomson- West 2010) (co- authored with Ronald Turner) Meredith J. Duncan, Op- Ed, Race Still Has Role To Play in a Post- Racial America, HOUS. CHRON., March 6, 2010 Appendix: Ethics Opinion for Autobiography of an Execution in DAVID R. DOW, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EXECUTION (Twelve 2010). Personal Torts, 62 S.M.U. L. REV. 1365 (2009). Sex Crimes and Sexual Miscues: The Need for a Clearer Line Between Forcible Rape and Nonconsensual Sex, 42 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 1087 (2007). Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (2008). In- House Counsel s Ethical Obligations When Supervising Nonlawyer Assistants, 7 Corporate Practice Series 99 (2007). Criminal Malpractice: A Lawyer s Holiday, 37 GA. L. REV. 1251 (2003). The (So- Called) Liability of Criminal Defense Attorneys: A System in Need of Reform, 2002 B.Y.U. L. REV. 1 (2002). Legal Malpractice By Any Other Name: Why a Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claim Does Not Smell As Sweet, 34 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 1137 (1999). Battered Women Who Kill Their Abusers and a New Texas Law, 29 HOUS. L. REV. 963 (1992). Works- in- Progress ADVANCED TORTS: A CONTEXT AND PRACTICE CASEBOOK, Carolina Academic Press (forthcoming 2013) (co- authored with Alex Long)
Page 3 Gray Rape and Restorative Justice: An Effort Toward Rehabilitation of Acquaintance Rape Offenders and Empowerment of Its Victims Pedagogical Solutions to Teaching Prosecutorial Ethics Presentations Professional Responsibility Pecha Kucha: The Sequel, Southeastern Association of American Law Schools Conference, Palm Beach, Florida Professional Responsibility Pecha Kucha, Southeastern Association of American Law Schools Conference, Amelia Island, Florida Teaching Innovations Used in Second/Third Year Courses (panel moderator), Southeastern Association of American Law Schools Conference, West Palm Beach, Florida Gray Rape and Mediation, Mid- Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia Labor and Employment Law Ethics, ABA Labor and Employment Law Section, Houston Texas The Need for Clearer Lines Between Forcible Rape and Nonconsensual Sex, Mid- Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Richmond, Virginia Law and Ethics in the Classroom, University of Houston New Faculty Orientation, Houston, Texas Current Events in Legal Ethics: 2003-04 in Review, Baker Botts L.L.P. Partners Retreat, Austin, Texas The Ethical Implications of the New Sarbanes- Oxley Legislation; Big Law Firm Conflicts of Interests, Baker Botts L.L.P. Partners Retreat, Austin, Texas Non- Medical Applications of Genomics in the Criminal Law, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland An Ethical Analysis of Incompetent Criminal Defense Counsel and the Unjust Impact on Clients, NAACP National Convention, Eighteenth Annual Lawyers Continuing Legal August 4, 2013 July 29, 2012 August 3, 2010 January 29, 2010 August 1, 2008 January 26, 2007 August 19, 2004 April 17, 2004 April 5, 2003 July 11, 2002 July 7, 2002
Page 4 Education Seminar, Houston Texas Ethical Responsibilities of Lawyers in Exercising Jurisdiction Over Privately Conducted Investigations, The Learning Center for Private Investigation: Civil and Criminal Investigation Course, Houston, Texas The (Non) Liability of Criminal Defense Attorneys: A Three- Level Analysis, Southeastern Conference of the American Association of Law Schools, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina Responsibility of Supervisory Lawyers and Internal Law Firm Ethics; Current Events in Big Law Firm Ethics, Baker Botts L.L.P. Partners Retreat, Austin, Texas The Federal Sentencing Guidelines and Relevant Conduct: Sentencing Criminal Defendants for Criminal Conduct Not Proven Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Young Scholars Workshop, Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, California April 25, 2002 July 17, 2001 April 28, 2001 October 15, 1999 Professional Honors and Accomplishments Subject of WHAT THE BEST LAW TEACHERS DO (Harvard University Press) Professor of the Year, Order of the Barons University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award Recipient University of Houston Law Center Commencement Hooder (selected by graduating class) Outstanding Professor of the Year Award Recipient, UHLC Student Bar Association New Faculty Research Grant Recipient Faculty of the Year Award Recipient, Black Law Students Association What s Race Got To Do With It? How Personal Identity Impacts and Attorney s Role, Continuing Legal Education Program, organizer 2013 2007-2008 2004-2005 2013, 2004 & 2003 2001-2002 2000 1999-2000 September 23, 1999
Page 5 Service AALS Section on Balance in Legal Education, Executive Committee (2012 to present) AALS Section on Professional Responsibility, Executive Committee (2012 to present) AALS Section on Teaching Methods (2011 to present) AALS Section on Criminal Justice, Executive Committee (2009) UH Pre- Law Institute (formerly UH Council on Legal Education), faculty member (June 2007 to present) Texas State Bar (Panel 5B) Grievance Committee Member (2011 to present) UHLC Honor Court, faculty member (elected by students) (2008 to present) UHLC Mediation Hiring Committee (2013) UHLC Law Student Assistance Program, founding faculty member and faculty advisor (2010 to 2012) UH Grievance Committee (2013-2016) UH Title IX Grievance Committee and Sexual Harassment Board (2009-2011) UHLC Legal Research and Writing Faculty Recruitment Committee (2007-2009) UHLC Faculty Appointments Committee (1999-2001; 2005-2007; 2009 to 2012) BLSA Deanna Mack Scholarship Selection Committee (2012 to present) University of Houston Faculty Senator (2004-2009) Criminal Justice Institute, University of Houston Law Center (2004 to present) UHLC Student Affairs Committee (2002-2003; 2004-2005, chair) Houston Law Review, Secretary- Treasurer (2004-2007) UHLC Executive Committee (2000-2001; 2002-2004; 2010-2012) UHLC Committee on Faculty Development (2001-2003) UHLC Committee on Teaching (2001-2003) UHLC Disaster Recovery Team (summer 2001) UHLC Legal Research and Writing Committee (2002-2003) UHLC Fifth Circuit Host Committee (1999-2000) UHLC Student Awards Committee (1999-2000) UHLC Public Interest Fellowship Selection Committee (2000) Houston Law Review, faculty advisor (2003-2007) UHLC Black Law Students Association, faculty advisor (1998 to present) UHLC Christian Legal Society, faculty advisor (1998 to present)
Page 6 UHLC J. Rueben Clark Law Student Association, faculty advisor (2003-2010) Phi Alpha Delta, faculty member (2004 to present) Affiliations/ Professional Memberships The Garland R. Walker American Inn of Court, member American Law Institute, Members Consultative Group, TORTS: LIABILITY FOR ECONOMIC HARM SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RELATED OFFENSES American Bar Foundation, Fellow Texas State Bar American Bar Association Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Since 2013 Since 2010 Since 2011 Since 1993 Since 1993 Since 1997 Since 1998