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Cynthia Bond

 

Cynthia D. Bond
Clinical Professor of Lawyering Skills
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
312.427.2737 ext. 482
E-mail: 7bond@jmls.edu

BA, magna cum laude, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
MFA, Cornell University
JD, Cornell Law School

 

Publications

After graduating from law school in 1993, where she was on the staff of the Cornell Law Review, Cynthia Bond worked as a research associate for a solo practitioner in Ithaca, New York, while also serving as a volunteer staff attorney for Neighborhood Legal Services, a public interest law office. From 1994-1995, she was a solo practitioner in Ithaca, focusing on family law for low-income clients. From 1995-1999, she was an associate with True, Walsh & Miller, where her practice areas included litigation, domestic relations, and real estate. From 1999-2004, Professor Bond was on the faculty of Cornell Law School, where she taught a first-year legal writing class, as well as a seminar on law and film.

She received the Tompkins County Bar Association award for outstanding pro bono legal services in 1995, and the American Bar Association Journal Ross Essay Award in 1998.

Professor Bond came to John Marshall as a visiting professor in 2004 and joined the full-time faculty in 2006. She  teaches Lawyering Skills I, Family Law, Images of Law in Film, and Law and Culture.

Full Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Law Review Articles

"Law as Cinematic Apparatus:  Image, Textuality, and Representational Anxiety in Spielberg's Minority Report," 37 Cumb. L. Rev. 25 (2007), http://ssrn.com/abstract=1353328.

Books

The Pen Is Ours:  A Listing of Writings by and about African-American Women Before 1910, Ed., with Jean Fagan Yellin. New York:  Oxford University Press, 1991.

Essays

"Balance and Contradiction:  Remembering Archie," Considering the Radiance:  Essays on the Poetry of A.R. Ammons, David Burak and Roger Gilbert, eds., New York:  Norton, 2005.

"The Abcederian Procedure," with A.R. Ammons and Bill Carleton, Epoch, Ithaca, New York, 2004.

"Language, Speech and Difference in Their Eyes Were Watching God," in Zora Neale Hurston:  Critical Perspectives Past and Present, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K. Anthony Appiah, Eds.  New York:  Amistad Media Ltd., 1993.

"Computer Applications at the Black Periodical Literature Project," with Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Literary Research, College Park, Maryland, 1988.

Poems

"Documentary," The City Visible:  Chicago Poetry for the New Century, William Allegrezza and Raymond Bianchi, eds., Chicago: Cracked Slab Books, 2007.

"Breaking Down the Garden," Ascent, Winter 1999.

"Correspondences," "Coupling," and "Equipment," The Big Spoon, Northern Ireland, Spring 1998.

"November," The Bookpress, Ithaca, New York, 1994.

"Reclamation," "What You Want Means What You Can Afford," Ascent, Urbana, Illinois, 1993.

["What You Want Means What You Can Afford," reprinted in Best American Poetry 1994, A.R. Ammons and David Lehman, Eds. New York: Scribners, 1994, and in The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, Fourth Edition, Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1997.]

"See Joy," "Buoy,"  "A Romance," Epoch, Ithaca, New York, 1989.  (Pushcart Prize Nominee.)

"Ode,"  "Some Things I'll Try to Do," Epoch, Ithaca, New York, 1988.  (Pushcart Prize Nominee.)

 ["Ode," reprinted in Roth's American Poetry Annual 1989, Great Neck, New York:  Roth Publishing, 1990.]

 

Last Updated On: 10/30/09
 

 


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