Deborah Rhode

Deborah L. Rhode is one of the leading scholars in the fields of legal ethics and gender, law, and public policy.^{[citation needed]} An author of 20 books, including Women and Leadership and Moral Leadership, she is the nation’s most frequently cited scholar in legal ethics^{[citation needed]}. She is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, and the director of the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession.^[1]

Professor Rhode is the former president of the Association of American Law Schools, the former chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession, the founder and former director of Stanford’s Center on Ethics, and the former director of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford. She also served as senior counsel to the Democrats of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary on presidential impeachment issues during the Clinton administration. She has received the American Bar Association’s Michael Franck award for contributions to the field of professional responsibility; the American Bar Foundation’s W. M. Keck Foundation Award for distinguished scholarship on legal ethics; and the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award for her work on expanding public service opportunities in law schools. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and vice chair of the board of Legal Momentum (formerly the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund). She is currently a columnist for the National Law Journal.

In 2011, Rhode participated in a teleconference organized by the liberal advocacy group Common Cause that called for an investigation by the U. S. Department of Justice into whether Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia should have recused themselves from the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court case of 2010.^[2]

Before joining the Stanford Law faculty, Professor Rhode was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Professor Rhode graduated from Yale University Summa Cum Laude in 1974. She earned a B.A. in Political Science with Honors, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Yale debate team. She is a former member of the Yale Corporation, the governing body of Yale University.

She is married to Ralph Cavanagh, a senior attorney and co-director of Natural Resources Defense Council's energy program.

Publications

Prejudiced Toward Pretty, National Law Journal, May 3, 2010, p. 34^[3]

The Beauty Bias: the Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.^[4][5][6]

Managing Pro Bono: Doing Well by Doing Better, 78 Fordham Law Review, p. 2357 (April 2010)^[7]

Gender Law and Policy, New York: Aspen, 2010.^[8]

Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change ( with Barbara Kellerman, ed. Jossey-Bass, 2007).

In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture (Stanford University Press, 2006).

Moral Leadership; The Theory and Practice of Power, Judgment, and Policy (Jossey Bass, 2006).^[9][10]

Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, and Commentary (with Katherine Bartlett, Aspen Press, 2006).

Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice: Public Service and the Profession (Stanford University Press, 2005).

Brown at Fifty: The Unfinished Legacy (American Bar Association, 2004) (ed. with Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.).

Access to Justice (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Legal Ethics ( with David Luban, Foundation Press, 4th Ed. 2004).

The Difference Difference Makes: Women and Leadership, editor (Stanford University Press, 2003).

Professional Responsibility and Regulation, with Geoffrey Hazard, Jr. (Foundation Press, 2002).

Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine and Commentary, with Katharine T. Bartlett and Angela P. Harris (Aspen, 2002).

In the Interests of Justice (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Ethics in Practice, editor (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Professional Responsibility: Ethics by the Pervasive Method, (Aspen, 2d ed., 1998).

Speaking of Sex (Harvard University Press, 1997).^[11]

Sex Discrimination and the Law, with Barbara Allen Babcock, Ann E. Freedman, Susan Deller Ross, Wendy Webster Williams, Rhonda Copelon, Nadine H. Taub (Little, Brown & Co., 1996).

The Politics of Pregnancy: Adolescent Sexuality and Public Policy, Editor, with Annette Lawson (Yale University Press, 1993).

The Legal Profession: Responsibility and Regulation, with Geoffrey Hazard (Foundation Press, 3rd Ed. 1993).

Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference, Editor (Yale University Press, 1990).

Justice and Gender (Harvard University Press, 1989).^[12]

References

1. ^ http://www.law.stanford.edu/directory/profile/51/
2. ^ "COMMON CAUSE HOLDS A TELECONFERENCE ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE". Political Transcript Wire. http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/political-transcript-wire/mi_8167/is_20110120/common-holds-teleconference-campaign-finance/ai_n56717095/pg_3/?tag=mantle_skin;content. Retrieved 22 June 2011. 
3. ^ http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/details/4584/Prejudiced%20Toward%20Pretty/
4. ^ http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/details/4585/
5. ^ http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Sociology/SexGender/?view=usa&ci=9780195372878
6. ^ http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/books/stories/DN-bk_beauty_0509gd.ART.State.Edition1.4c7a65d.html
7. ^ http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1580263
8. ^ http://www.aspenlawschool.com/books/bartlett_genderlawpolicy/aboutTheAuthor.asp
9. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=khYdztxw0KAC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=moral+leadership+rhode&source=bl&ots=haVz1ib8gj&sig=i5LEYQH2m-Ay-GXN-cOah392sKk&hl=en&ei=0JnoS-63CI-8sgOQzfThBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
10. ^ http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/details/3535/Moral%20Leadership%20:%20The%20Theory%20and%20Practice%20of%20Power,%20Judgment,%20and%20Policy/
11. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=ilR5D4vnuv4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=speaking+of+sex&lr=&ei=c5noS6uEG4nclQTA4JXJCQ&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
12. ^ http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0w00pjAbweYC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=justice+and+gender+rhode&ots=NWtfqnECpp&sig=H2CPXHXjj_A6jfp4G4kdiSqPSt4#v=onepage&q&f=false

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