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Julie M. Spanbauer

 

Julie M. Spanbauer
Professor
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
312.987.2385
E-mail: 7spanbau@jmls.edu

BS, cum laude, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
JD, Valparaiso University
LLM, Northwestern University

 

 

 

Publications | Presentations | Professional Memberships

After graduating from law school, Julie Spanbauer served as a law clerk to Hon. Andrew P. Rodovich, U.S. Magistrate Judge, and Hon. James T. Moody, U.S. District Court Judge. Since joining the John Marshall faculty in 1990, she has published numerous articles in the areas of employment discrimination, constitutional law, and women's issues.

Professor Spanbauer was recently named a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant Recipient and she taught at the Institute of Technology Law, National Chiao Tung University in Taipei, Taiwan.  Professor Spanbauer has organized and served as a panel moderator at diverse conferences involving discrimination issues. She has presented lectures at Trinity College in Ireland and in China. Professor Spanbauer has served as the program director for two programs sponsored by the International Law Institute in Washington, D.C. These programs prepare international LLM students to enter law schools throughout the United States. She has also served as a member of the board of directors of the Friends of Battered Women and their Children, a not-for-profit organization providing counseling, advocacy, and education services for abused women and their children.

From 2004-2008, Professor Spanbauer served as director of the special admissions program at John Marshall, the Summer College for Assessing Legal Education Skills (SCALES). She teaches Employment Discrimination, Contracts, and Lawyering Skills.

Full Curriculum Vitae

Publications: Articles

Tenured Faculty at Colleges and Universities in the United States: A DeFacto Private Membership Club, Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table (forthcoming).

Embracing Diversity Through a Multicultural Approach to Legal Education (with co-author) 1 Charlotte L. Rev. 223 (2009).

Sailing Against the Wind: How a Pre-Admission Program can Prepare At-Risk Students for Success in the Journey through Law School and Beyond (with co-authors) 39 U. Mem. L. Rev. 307 (2009).

Lost in Translation in the Law School Classroom: Assessing Coursework in LL.M. Programs for International Students, 35 Intl. J. Leg. Info. (Yale) 396 (2007).

Kimel and Garrett: Another Example of the Court Undervaluing Individual Sovereignty and Settled Expectations, 76 Temp. L. Rev. 787 (2003).

Scarlett O'Hara as Feminist: The Contradictory, Normalizing Force of Law, 5 (2) Law Text Culture 45 (2001).

Teaching First-Semester Students that Objective Analysis Persuades 5 Leg. Writing 167 (1999).

Breast Implants as Beauty Ritual: Women's Sceptre and Prison, 9 Yale J.L. & Feminism 157 (1997).

Current Developments in Federal Employment Discrimination Law, 15 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 307 (1995).

The First Amendment Right to Petition Government for a Redress of Grievances: Cut From a Different Cloth, 21 Hastings Const. L.Q. 15 (1993), reprinted in First Amendment Law Handbook: 1994-95 Edition 529 (ed. James L. Swanson).

Presentations and Lectures

American Institute of Architects 2004 National Convention, "Diversity: How to Talk the Talk So You Can Walk the Walk," (June 10, 2004).

Lecturer: National Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Training Workshop for Equal Opportunity Specialists, "Drafting Factual Summaries," (Chicago, Illinois, September 27, 2001).

Lecturer: "Federal Administrative Law and Process," "Professional and Occupational Licensing," "Social Security Law," and "Environmental Law," Rule of Law Workshops sponsored by the Chicago Sister Cities International Program and the United States Government, (Shanghai, China, June 21-22, 2000) (Senyang, China, June 28-29, 2000).

Lecturer: "Federal Sex Discrimination in Employment Law," Round Table Discussion, sponsored by the Women's Law Caucus of The John Marshall Law School, (The John Marshall Law School, February 17, 2000).

Lecturer: National Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Training Workshop for Equal Opportunity Specialists, "Drafting Factual Summaries," (with Professor Ardath Hamann) (Atlanta, Georgia, July 8-9, 1998).

Presenter: 1998 Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, "Teaching Objective Analysis as a Sophisticated Form of Persuasion," (University of Michigan, June, 1998).

Distinguished Speaker and Visiting Professor: "Federal Sex Discrimination in Employment Law in the United States," (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, March, 1997).

Lecturer: Thresholds of Chicago, "The Americans with Disabilities Act," (Chicago, Illinois, April, 1996).

Lecturer: The John Marshall Noontime CLE Series Lectures, "Current Developments in Federal Employment Discrimination Law," (The John Marshall Law School, June, 1994).

Lecturer: The John Marshall Lectures for Community Developers and Social Workers, "Federal and State Employment Discrimination Law," (The John Marshall Law School, June, 1993).

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

Indiana State Bar Association

Federal Bar Association

Chicago Bar Association

 


 


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