Judith C. Areen
Paul Regis Dean Professor of Law
A.B., Cornell; J.D., Yale
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Judith Areen is the Paul Regis Dean Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. For fifteen years (1989-2004) she served as Executive Vice President...
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Judith Areen is the Paul Regis Dean Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. For fifteen years (1989-2004) she served as Executive Vice President for Law Affairs of Georgetown University and Dean of the Law Center. In 2010, she served as interim dean. A member of the faculty since 1972, Professor Areen's areas of academic expertise include higher education law and family law. Her casebook on Higher Education and the Law was published by Foundation Press in 2009. The sixth edition of her Cases and Materials on Family Law (with Marc Spindelman & Philomila Tsoukala) will be published by Foundation Press in early 2012. She is the author of numerous law review articles including most recently Accreditation Reconsidered, 96 Iowa L. Rev. 1471 (2011); Governing Board Accountability: Competition, Regulation, and Accreditation, J. C. & U. L. (2010); and Government as Educator: A New Understanding of First Amendment Protection of Academic Freedom and Governance, 97 Geo. L. J. 945 (2009).
A graduate of Cornell University (1966) and the Yale Law School (1969), where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, Professor Areen has worked in the private sector and in government at the local and federal levels. Between 1977 and 1980 she served in the Office of Management and Budget as Director of the Legal Representation Project which analyzed the work of the more than 14,000 lawyers in the Executive Branch and led to Executive Order 12146. She then became General Counsel to President Carter’s Reorganization Project. She served as Special Counsel to the White House Task Force on Regulatory Reform during the same period.
Professor Areen is a member of the American Law Institute, and a director of the Pro Bono Institute. In 2006, she served as president of the Association of American Law Schools, and from 1998-2000 and 2005-2007, as a member of the Executive Committee. She also has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University, a governor of the District of Columbia Bar, and a member of the Council of the Section on Legal Education of the American Bar Association. Professor Areen’s professional contributions have been recognized by the 2005 Janet Reno Torchbearer Award of the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia, and her selection as Dean of the Year in 2003 by Equal Justice Works.
She lives with her husband, Richard Cooper, in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Recent Scholarship
Books
- Judith Areen, Marc Spindelman & Philomila Tsoukala, Family Law: Cases and Materials (New York: Foundation Press/Thomson Reuters 6th ed. 2012). [BOOK]
- Judith C. Areen, Higher Education and the Law: Cases and Materials (New York: Foundation Press 2009). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Judith C. Areen, Accreditation Reconsidered, 96 Iowa L. Rev. 1471-1494 (2011). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
- Judith C. Areen, Justifying America's Universities, 37 J.C. & U.L. 195-199 (2010) (reviewing Jonathan R. Cole, The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected (2009)). [W]
- Judith C. Areen, Governing Board Accountability: Competition, Regulation, and Accreditation, 36 J.C. & U.L. 691-729 (2010). [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
All Scholarship 2000 - Present
Books
- Judith Areen, Marc Spindelman & Philomila Tsoukala, Family Law: Cases and Materials (New York: Foundation Press/Thomson Reuters 6th ed. 2012). [BOOK]
- Judith C. Areen, Higher Education and the Law: Cases and Materials (New York: Foundation Press 2009). [BOOK]
- Judith C. Areen & T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Background Papers for Fair and Independant Courts: A Conference on the State of the Judiciary (Wash., D.C.: American Law Institute/Georgetown University Law Center 2006). [BOOK]
- Judith C. Areen & Milton C. Regan, Jr., Family Law: Cases and Materials (New York: Foundation Press 5th ed. 2006). [BOOK]
- Judith C. Areen, Patricia A. King & Lawrence O. Gostin, Law, Medicine and Ethics (New York: Foundation Press 2006). [BOOK]
- Judith C. Areen, Patricia A. King, Steven Goldberg, Lawrence O. Gostin & Peter D. Jacobson, Law, Science and Medicine (New York: Foundation Press 3d ed. 2005). [BOOK]
- Judith C. Areen & Milton C. Regan, Jr., Family Law: Cases and Materials (New York: Foundation Press 4th ed. Supp. 2004). [BOOK]
- Judith C. Areen & Harry T. Edwards, Legal Education in the 21st Century: 2000 Panel Discussion at the Judicial Conference, United States Courts for the District of Columbia Circuit, Williamsburg, Virginia, June 15, 2000 (Wash., D.C.: U.S. Courts for the D.C. Circuit 2000). [BOOK]
- Judith C. Areen, Patricia A. King, Steven Goldberg, Lawrence O. Gostin & Alexander M. Capron, Law, Science and Medicine (New York: Foundation Press 2d ed. Supp. 2000).
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Judith C. Areen, Accreditation Reconsidered, 96 Iowa L. Rev. 1471-1494 (2011). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
- Judith C. Areen, Justifying America's Universities, 37 J.C. & U.L. 195-199 (2010) (reviewing Jonathan R. Cole, The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected (2009)). [W]
- Judith C. Areen, Governing Board Accountability: Competition, Regulation, and Accreditation, 36 J.C. & U.L. 691-729 (2010). [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
- Judith C. Areen, Government as Educator: A New Understanding of First Amendment Protection of Academic Freedom and Governance, 97 Geo. L.J. 945-1000 (2009). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
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