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Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice

491 Simon Hall
Boalt Hall School of Law
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720

510-642-6263

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NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Robert Achtenberg
Senior Vice President for Public Policy
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce

Lynn B. Cooper
Professor of Social Work
California State University, Sacramento

Lynn Cooper, D. Criminology, is a Professor of Social Work in the Division of of Social Work, California State University, Sacramento. She teaches primarily in the areas of social policy, family violence, crime and criminal behavior, reproductive rights and gay and lesbian issues.  In addition to teaching Dr. Cooper does mediations and dispute resolutions for the Berkeley/Oakland Dispute Resolution Services and provides support services for ACESS a reproductive rights organization in the Bay Area. In Fall 2001 Dr. Cooper was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Western Sydney in Sydney, Australia.

Hon. LaDoris H. Cordell
Vice Provost for Campus Relations, Stanford University

LaDoris H. Cordell was a state court judge for 19 years, until her retirement in 2001. She is currently a Vice Provost at Stanford University. During her tenure on the bench, she ws the first judge in California to required convicted drunk drivers to use breath devices in their cars. She created the Supervised Visitation Project, the first of its kind in the nation, in which senior citizens supervised visits between children and their non-custodial parents. She was the first African American woman to sit on the Superior Court in northern California, and was the first African American judge in Santa Clara County.

Judge Cordell is the recipient of numerous awards. In 1996, she was elected President of the United States by the Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County. Most recently, in 2004, she was named the recipient of the Rose Bird Memorial Award by the California Black Women Lawyers Association.

In November, 2003, Judge Cordell was elected to a four-year term on the Palo Alto City Council following a successful grassroots campaign in which she refused to accept any monetary contributions. Finally, and most importantly, she is the mother of two daughters and a grandmother.

Constance de la Vega
Professor of Law, University of San Francisco
Anna de Leon
Private Attorney at Law, Berkeley
Mary C. Dunlap
Director, Office of Citizens' Complaints,
Police Commission, San Francisco
Carmen A. Estrada
Director, EEO/AA Department
University of California
Margaret Fung
Executive Director
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York
Hon. Donna J. Hitchens
Judge, Superior Court, State of California
Arlie Hochschild,
Professor of Sociology and
Director, Center for Working Families
UC Berkeley
Emma C. Jordan
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Hesung Chun Koh,
Chair and Director, East Rock Institute, New Haven
Linda Hamilton Krieger
Acting Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley
Judith E. Kurtz
Civil Rights Attorney, San Francisco
Jean Love
Professor of Law, University of Iowa
Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Eva Paterson
Executive Director,
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
Andrea L. Peterson
Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Deborah L. Rhode
Professor of Law, Stanford University
Director, Center on Ethics at Stanford University

Marjorie M. Shultz
Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

Marjorie M. Shultz teaches, writes and practices in issues of health law, reproductive technology,family policy, contracts and professional ethics. In each field of law in which she is active, Professor Shultz integrates considerations of race and gender into substantive materials. With 6 others, she recently coauthored a book on American race policy (Whitewashing Race: the Myth of a Color Blind Society (UC Press, 2003) and is a co-Principal Investigator on a five year empirical research project to develop predictors of lawyering competence that could play a role in law school admissions decisions. Such factors would make it possible for law schools to use broader criteria than the purely academic indicators (LSAT and UGPA) that currently dominate admissions decisions. For the past 6 years, Professor Shultz has edited a department/ column for the Journal of Gender Specific Medicine (Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons) that addresses issues at the intersection of medicine, law, gender and ethics. Professor Shultz speaks and consults with law firms, government agencies, hospitals, and medical-legal organizations regarding issues of health policy, consent to research and treatment, and management of conflicts of interest in health care. She has been a bioethics program consultant for women judges and has participated in various programs of judicial education.

Professor Shultz has been active on women's issues since the early 1970's when she was active in women's political and legal organizations such as the National Women's Political Caucus and the Women's Education for Delegate Selection during the 1972 presidential nominating process. She testified at hearings held by State Senator Jackie Speier on the dramatic drop in hiring of women faculty within the UC System after the adoption of proposition 209. Ms. Shultz currently serves on the Board of Directors for Equal Rights Advocates, a women's rights law firm in San Francisco.

Judith Stacey
Professor of Sociology
University of Southern California

Judith Stacey is Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU.  She earned her Ph.D. at Brandeis University and has taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Davis.

Dr. Stacey's research examines changes in family, sexuality and society, with a current focus on gay family issues.  Her publications include In the Name of The Family: Rethinking Family Values in the Postmodern Age (Beacon Press 1996);  Brave New Families:  Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late Twentieth Century America (Basic Books 1990, U C Press, 1998), and Patriarchy and Socialist Revolution in China (University of California Press 1983), which won the 1985 Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Assn. Her co-authored article, "(How) Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?" ( American Sociological Review 2001) received the Distinguished Article Award in Sex and Gender from the American Sociological Association.  Professor Stacey's research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations.  A frequent public commentator on family change and politics, Dr. Stacey is a founder of the Council on Contemporary Families, a group committed to public education on family research.

Kathryn H. Tijerin
Law Faculty, University of Phoenix
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Karen L. Tokarz
Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Education Washington University, St. Louis
Hon. Diane E. Watson
State Senator Emeritus, 26th District,
Los Angeles, California

D. Kelly Weisberg,

Professor of Law, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco

Professor D. Kelly Weisberg is a lawyer and sociologist. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brandeis University, from which she also earned a Ph.D. in sociology in 1976. She received her J.D. from UC Berkeley in 1979, where she was a member of the California Law Review. She is a member of the California bar. Before joining the faculty at Hastings College of the Law in 1982, she worked at the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, Switzerland, during the International Year of the Child, and at Washington University School of Law, St. Louis.

She teaches courses on Family Law, Children and the Law, Wills and Trusts, and Feminist Legal Theory. She has participated in national studies of domestic violence and juvenile prostitution. She testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice on the problems of runaway youth. She is the author of several law review articles and books, including Child, Family, State: Cases and Materials in Children and the Law (co-authored with Robert Mnookin) (Aspen, 4th ed. 2000), Modern Family Law (co-authored with Susan Appleton) (Aspen, 2d ed. 2002) and Applications of Feminist Legal Theory to Women's Lives (Temple University Press, 1996). She is married with two children.

Wendy Webster Williams
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center