Judith Areen is the Interim Dean and Paul Regis Dean Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. A member of the faculty since 1972, she served from 1989 to 2004 as Executive Vice President for Law Center Affairs and Dean of the Law Center. Dean Areen's areas of academic expertise include higher education and the law, family law, and constitutional law. Her casebook on Higher Education and the Law was published in 2009. She is the co-author with Professor Milton Regan of a widely-used law school casebook (Family Law, 5th edition, Foundation Press 2006) and with colleagues of another (Law, Science and Medicine, 3rd edition, Foundation Press, 2005). She was chosen on the basis of her scholarship to be a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. during 1988-1989.
A graduate of Cornell University (1966) and the Yale Law School (1969) where she was a member of the Editorial Board of the Yale Law Journal, Dean 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 Federal 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.
In 2006, Dean Areen was President of the Association of American Law Schools. She is also a member of the American Law Institute and a director of the Pro Bono Institute. She has served as a member of the Council of the Section of Legal Education of the American Bar Association, on the Board of Trustees of Cornell University, as a governor of the District of Columbia Bar, as a consultant to the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences, and on the Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Defense on Women in the Services.
She lives with her husband, Richard Cooper, in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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