• Resume
• Email
• Course Websites (Public Areas Only)
  1. Copyright
  2. Gender & Law in Am. History
  3. Legal Process and Society
  4. Property in Time
  
• Gender and Legal History Seminar Paper Project
• Javins Project: Court Documents and Pictures
  
• Grading Spreadsheet

Course Websites: The complete websites—announcements, documents, discussion forums, lists of links, pictures and other multi-media items—are available only to students enrolled in my courses. If you are a student in one of my classes, wish to enroll in a site or to use a site you have already enrolled in, please go to the Georgetown Law Courseware page. The more limited public versions of each site may be reached by using the links to the left.

Gender and Legal History Seminar Project: My colleage, Wendy Williams, and I have taught a seminar in Gender and American Legal History for well over two decades. We have hundreds of student papers on file. Many of our students have given us permission to make their work available to other scholars in the field. A website has been set up to facilitate distribution of the papers. To review instructions on how to get a paper, as well as to peruse author and subject indices, use the link to the left. If you have questions, email me.

Javins Project: In 2004 I published a lengthy history of the famous landlord-tenant case, Javins v. First National Realty Corporation. The case firmly established the implied warranty of habitability as a fixture of American property law. While researching the article, Georgetown Law provided funding to help gather documents from all of the courts involved in the dispute—the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the United States. The link to the left will take you to the Javins Project Home Page where you can download documents and see pictures of the buidlings involved in the proceedings. For the full story of the case, see Richard Chused, Saunders (a.k.a. Javins) v. First National Realty Corporation, 11 Georgetown Journal on Povery Law and Policy 191 (2004).

Grading Spreadsheet: Georgetown Law asks its faculty to use a set grading curve for large classes unless there are good reasons to deviate from the norm. The link to the left will take you to a page describing and allowing you to download an Excel spreadsheet template that will calculate grades after the entry of raw scores. It also allows you to alter the presumptive curve if you think that is appropriate. Contact me if you have questions.

Scholarship Available On Publicly Accessible Websites

The resume link to the left provides access to a complete list of my scholarship. Most of the articles are available in Westlaw and Lexis. Only a small segment of the work is available on free, publicly accessible websites. That segment includes:

Rewrite Copyright: Protecting Creativity and Social Utility in the Digital Age, 38 Israel Law Review 80 (2005) [Abstract Only]

Euclid's Historical Imagery, 51 Case Western Reserve Law Review 597 (2001)

Participant, Workshop on the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis and Recommendations, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (May 20, 2003)

 

Revised June 2, 2005 (RC)