Paul Regis Dean Professor of Law
A.B., Cornell; J.D., Yale

Office Location: Hotung 6013

Assistant: Tommy Openchowski

Phone: 9687

Biography

Judith Areen is the Paul Regis Dean Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at Georgetown University Law Center. From 1989 to 2004, she served as Executive Vice President for Law Center Affairs and Dean of the Law Center. Professor Areen's areas of academic expertise include higher education and the law, family law and constitutional law. She is the co-author with Professor Milton Regan of a widely-used law school casebook (Family Law, 5th edition, Foundation Press 2006) and 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,, 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 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.

During 2006, she was President of the Association of American Law Schools, a member of the American Law Institute, and a director of the Pro Bono Institute and Equal Justice Works. 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.

In 1991 and again in 1994 she was selected by the National Law Journal as one of the one hundred leading lawyers in the United States.

She lives with her husband, Richard Cooper, in Chevy Chase, Maryland.