Class of 2004-05 Assistant Professor of Law Seattle University School of Law Room 119 901 12th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122-1090 Phone: (206) 398-4986 Email: stoeverj@seattleu.edu

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Jane served as a judicial clerk, worked at legal aid offices and at a shelter for teenage girls, and was a live-in staff member at a shelter for homeless families. At Harvard Law School, she was a student attorney at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and was awarded the Kaufman Public Interest Fellowship. Jane was a Teaching Fellow for Georgetown University Law Center's Domestic Violence Clinic (DVC, supervising third-year law students in civil protection order cases in the D.C. Superior Court. In July 2006, she became the Director of the Domestic Violence Clinic and a Practitioner-in-Residence at American University, Washington College of Law. There, she assisted students representing battered immigrants seeking to self-petition to become legal permanent residents under the Violence Against Women Act.  Jane co-taught a clinical seminar and taught Domestic Violence Law to second and third year law students during spring 2007. She was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Law at Seattle University.  She taught Domestic Violence Law in the fall and just started the school's Domestic Violence Clinic.

Professor Stoever was featured in Harvard Law School's Women's Rights Guide. Her recent article, "Stories Absent from the Courtroom: Responding to Domestic Violence in the Context of HIV and AIDS", was published in the North Carolina Law Review. Her scholarship interests include clinical legal theory, domestic violence law, family law, and feminist legal theory.