Curriculum Vitae

Katharine T. Bartlett

Current Address:

Dean and A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law
Duke University School of Law
Box 90362
Durham, North Carolina 27706
(919) 613-7001; FAX (919) 613-7158
bartlett@law.duke.edu

Present Employment:

Dean and A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law.
Teaching and Research Interests: Family Law, Gender and Law, Contracts

Other Legal Employment:

1992-1993, Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Spring 1990: Visiting Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law.
1985 - 1986: Visiting Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law.
1976 - 1979: Staff attorney, Legal Aid Society of Alameda County, Oakland, California.
Major law reform litigation included legal challenge on behalf of physically disabled groups to inaccessible public transportation system in Alameda County, and pre-ERISA challenge to construction laborers' pension plan.
1975 - 1976: Law clerk, Justice Frank Richardson, California Supreme Court.
1974 - 1975: Law clerk, Legal Aid Society of Alameda County, Oakland, California.
Summer 1974: Law clerk, Justice Roger Connor, Alaska Supreme Court.
1973 - 1974: Law clerk, Childhood and Government Project, Earl Warren Legal Institute, UC Berkeley

Bar Memberships:

California, 1975
North Carolina, 1980

Education:

J.D., 1975, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley.
California Law Review, Note and Comment Editor.
M.A., 1969, History, Harvard University.
Harvard Graduate Prize Fellow; Woodrow Wilson Fellow; Danforth Foundation Honorable Mention.
B.A., 1968, Wheaton College, Norton, Mass.
magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Highest departmental honors in history.

Books:

Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary (4th edition, with Angela Harris and Deborah Rhode, Aspen ed. 2006).
Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis and Recommendations (American Law Institute 2002) (Reporter, with Ira Ellman and Grace Blumberg).
Feminist Legal Theory: Readings in Gender and Law (ed. with Rosanne Kennedy) (Westview Press, 1991).
Family Law: Cases, Text & Problems (2d edition, with Ira Ellman and Paul Kurtz) (Michie, 1991).
Children With Special Needs (ed. with Judith Wegner) (Transaction Press, 1987).

Articles and Essays:

A Conversation Among Deans from "Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change, and a Decade of Gender Studies," 29:2 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 465 (Summer 2006)
Feminism and Family Law, in Women and the Law 307-334 (Jane Campbell Moriarity ed. 2005)
Foreword: A Tribute to William W. Van Alstyne, 54 Duke Law Journal 1355-1357 (2005)
More on Lazy Rules: Remarks at the Investiture of Ira Mark Ellman, 35 Arizona State Law J. 715 (2003).
Preference, Presumption, Predisposition and Common Sense: From Traditional Custody Doctrines to the American Law Institute's Family Dissolution Project, 36 Family Law Quarterly 11-25 (Spring 2002).
U.S. Custody Law and Trends in the Context of the ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, 10 Va. J. Social Policy & the Law 5 (Fall 2002).
Foreword: Symposium on International Securitization and Structured Finance, 12 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 281-84 (2002) (with Douglas T. Breeden).
The Gender Law Canon, in Legal Canons 266-302 (Jack Balkin & Sandy Levinson, eds. 2001)
Comparing Race and Sex Discrimination in Custody Cases, 28 Hofstra L. Rev. 877 (2000)
Cracking Foundations as Feminist Method, 8 American U. J. Gender, Social Policy & Law 31 (2000)
Feminism and Family Law, 33 Family L.Q. 475 (1999)
Child Custody in the 21 st Century: How the American Law Institute Proposes to Achieve Predictability and Still Protect the Individual Child's Best Interests, 35 Willamette L. Rev. 467 (1999).
Saving the Family From the Reformers, 31 UC Davis Law Review 809 (1998).
Improving the Law Relating to Postdivorce Arrangements for Children, in The Postdivorce Family (eds. Paul Amato and Ross Thompson, 1998).
Feminist Canon, in Legal Canons (eds. Jack Balkin & Sandy Levinson, forthcoming 1999).
Perspectives in Feminist Jurisprudence, in Feminist Jurisprudence, Women and the Law: Critical Essays, Research Agenda and Bibliography (eds. Betty Taylor et al. 1998).
Anglo-American Law, in A Companion to Feminist Philosophy (eds. Alison Jaggar & Iris MarionYoung, 1998).
A True Family Agenda, North Carolina Independent, August 1996.
A Family Agenda Without the Rhetoric, The Chicago Tribune, August 29, 1996, 1-27.
Tradition, Change, and the Idea of Progress in Feminist Legal Thought, 1995 Wisconsin Law Review 303.
Sex, Lies, and Dissipation: The Discourse of Fault in a No-Fault Era, 83 Georgetown Law Journal 2525 (1994) (with Barbara Bennett Woodhouse).
Only Girls Wear Barrettes: Dress and Appearance Standards, Community Norms, and Workplace Equality, 92 Michigan Law Review 2541 (1994).
Gender Law, 1 Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy 1 (1994).
Feminist Perspectives on the Ideological Impact of Legal Education Upon the Profession, 72 North Carolina Law Review 1259 (1994).
Surplus Visibility, in Beyond PC: Toward a Politics of Understanding (ed. Patricia Aufderheide 1992).
Feminist Legal Methods, 103 Harvard Law Review 829 (1990).
The Chilly Climate on College Campuses: An Expansion of the "Hate Speech" Debate, 1990 Duke Law Journal 574 (with Jean O'Barr).
Surrogate Parenthood: Finding a North Carolina Solution, 18 North Carolina Central Law Journal 1 (1989).
Reexpressing Parenthood, 98 Yale Law Journal 293 (1988).
Porno-Symbolism: A Response to Professor McConahay, 51 Law and Contemporary Problems 71 (1988).
Custody Preference Should Go to Mother, 121 New Jersey Law Journal 29 (February 18, 1988).
Teaching Values: A Dilemma, 37 Journal of Legal Education 519 (1987).
Baby M: The Legal System Confronts Conflicting Human Values, Duke Law Magazine Summer 1987.
Courts Not Bound by Parental Agreements, 119 New Jersey Law Journal 27 (February 26, 1987).
Joint Custody, Feminism and the Dependency Dilemma (with Stack), 2 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 9 (1986).
The Role of Cost in Educational Decisionmaking for the Handicapped Child, 48 Law & Contemporary Problems 7 (1985).
Rethinking Parenthood As An Exclusive Status: The Need for Legal Alternatives When the Premise of the Nuclear Family Has Failed, 70 Virginia Law Review 879 (1984).
A Reappraisal of Parenthood, Duke Law Magazine, Spring 1984.
In re B.G.: The Expanding Role of the Juvenile Court in Child Custody Disputes, 63 California Law Review 236 (1975).
Pregnancy and the Constitution: The Uniqueness Trap, 62 California Law Review 1532 (1974).

Other:

Reporter, Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Analysis and Recommendations (American Law Institute 2002).

Book Reviews:

Rumpelstiltskin (review of Sex and Reason by Richard A. Posner), 23 Connecticut Law Review 473 1993).
The Alchemy of Race and Rights (review of The Alchemy of Race and Rights by Patricia Williams), 14 Sydney Law Review 393 (1992).
Minow's Social Relations Approach: Unanswering the Unasked (review of Making All the Difference by Martha Minow), 17 Law and Social Inquiry 437 (1992).
Disability as a Social Construct (review of Disability as a Social Construct by Claire H. Liachowitz), 18 Contemporary Sociology 759 (Sept. 1989).
Storytelling (review of Abortion and Divorce in Western Law by Mary Ann Glendon), 1987 Duke Law Journal 760.
MacKinnon's Feminism: Power on Whose Terms? (review of Feminism Unmodified by Catharine A. MacKinnon), 75 California Law Review 1559 (1987).
Book Review (Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law by Catharine A. MacKinnon, and Real Rape by Susan Estrich), 12 Signs 879 (1988).

Selected Professional Activities:

Presenter, “What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate,” Section for the Law School Dean, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, January 2004
Panelist, Symposium on Abortion: Research, Ethics and Activism, Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, Duke University, November 2003
Speaker, “Can the Law School Curriculum be Disengendered,” AALS Workshop on Taking Stock: Women of All Colors in Law School, New York, New York, June 2003
Facilitator, “Deans are From Venus: Development Officers are From Mars – Bringing the Relationship Down to Earth,” ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Jackson Hole VII Conference on Law School Development, Jackson Hole, May 2003
Speaker, “More on Lazy Rules: Remarks at the Investiture of Ira Mark Ellman,” College of Law, Arizona State University, March 2003
Speaker, Hofstra Law Review Conference on Marriage, Democracy, and Families, Hempstead, NY, March 2003
Commentator, Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, Yale Law School, May 2002
Speaker, Wheaton College Honors Convocation, May 2002
Speaker, “U.S. Custody Law and Trends in the Context of the ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution,”University of Virginia Center for Children, Families, and the Law, Conference on Resolving Child Custody Disputes: Innovations & Controversy, February 2002
Speaker, Law and Interdisciplinarity, Duke Women's Studies Department, September 2001
Speaker, A Look Back at My First Year, ABA 2001 Seminar for New Law School Deans, Winston-Salem, NC, June 2001
Speaker, Women and the Law, Duke History Department, March 2001
Working Group Leader, Women, Justice and Authority Conference, Yale Law School, April 28-30, 2000
Siben Lecturer, Comparing Race and Sex Discrimination in Custody Cases, Hofstra University School of Law, October 27, 1999
Speaker, AALS Workshop for Women in Legal Education: Getting Unstuck without Coming Unglued, New York University School of Law, October 2, 1999
Respondent, Individual Rights Panel, Clinton and the Constitution Conference, Duke Law School, September 24, 1999
Keynote Speaker, Penn. Superior Court Conference, ALI Principles, St. Louis, May 24, 1999.
Keynote Speaker, "Child Custody in the 21st Century: How the American Law Institute Proposes to Achieve Predictability and Still Protect the Individual Child's Best Interests", 1999 Family Law Conference, Williamette College of Law, Feb. 26, 1999.
Reporter (since 1994, with Ira Ellman and Grace Blumberg), American Law Institute, Principles of Family Dissolution. Named R. Ammi Cutter Reporter, June 1998.
Speaker, "Divorce and Family Law," at The Future of Families: Should Families Shape Policy or Should Policy Shape Families?, at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Nov. 14, 1997.
Bodenheimer Lecture, "Saving the Family From the Reformers," University of California at Davis School of Law, Nov. 19, 1997.
Speaker, "ALI's New Principles of Family Law," National Association of Women Judges Nineteenth Annual Conference, September 26, 1997, Salt Lake City.
Keynote Speaker, The Postdivorce Family: Research and Policy Issues, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, May 30, 1997.
Moderator, Federalist Society Symposium, Law and ..., Duke Law School, March 1, 1997.
Public Lecture, Feminist Theory: Academics or Politics, Princeton University, February 27, 1997.
Faculty Colloquium, Feminist Legal Theory: Scholarship or Politics, Duke Law School, February 25, 1997.
Law and Public Policy Faculty Workshop, Child Custody: Fairness to Adults or the Child's Best Interests, Duke Law School, January 21, 1997.
Panelist, Feminist Theories and Judging, National Association of Women Judges Conference, Memphis, September 28, 1996.
Faculty, Family Dissolution and the Appellate Judge: Basic Trends in the Law and Dilemmas in Appellate Review of Child Custody Cases, Appellate Judges' Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, July 22, 1996.
Discussant, Child Support Guideline Issues: Poor Fathers and Second Families, at conference on The Effects of Child Support Enforcement on Non-Resident Fathers, Sept. 14-16, 1995, Princeton.
Testimony, How Custody and Visitation Decisions are Made: Current Realities, Future Trends, Public Hearings, U.S. Commission on Child and Family Welfare, Alexandria VA, March 28, 1995.
Speaker, The Idea of Progress in Feminist Legal Thought, Harvard Law School, faculty workshop, November 4, 1994.
Speaker, The Idea of Progress in Feminist Legal Thought, Cornell Law School, faculty workshop, October 20, 1994.
Speaker, Who's Got Custody? Who's in Charge? Legal Implications of Changing Family Roles, Conference on the Changing Definition of the American Family, Duke University, October 2, 1994.
Plenary Speaker, Using Feminist Approaches in Teaching Family Law, AALS Workshop On Family and Juvenile Law, Washington D.C., February 26, 1994.
Responder, Divorce and Feminist Legal Theory Conference, Georgetown University Law Center, February 12, 1994.
1993 Rundell Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, The Idea of Change in Feminist Legal Thought, November 1, 1993.
Speaker, The Idea of Progress in Feminist Legal Thought, Dartmouth College, October 25, 1993.
Speaker, A Post-Feminist View of Change, Vermont Law School, October 25, 1993.
Speaker, Feminist Perspectives on the Ideological Impact of Legal Education Upon the Profession, The Third Annual Dan K. Moore Program in Ethics, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillSchool of Law, Chapel Hill, NC, October 1, 1993.
Speaker, Tradition as Discourse in Family Law Jurisprudence, Law and Society Annual Meeting, May 29, 1993, Chicago
Speaker, Tradition and the Family, Discourses Speaker Series, New York University School of Law, April 8, 1993
Speaker, The Hill/Thomas Proceedings From a Lawyer's Perspective, Wheaton College Alumni Club, May 3, 1992, Chapel Hill, NC.
Lecturer, Theory as Traction: Feminist Methodology in Practice, Legal Perspectives Series, University of Arizona College of Law, April 24, 1992.
Speaker, Women Use the Law: Trap or Trump?, Duke Women's Studies Program, April 11, 1992.
Speaker, Feminist Legal Theory, West Durham Rotary Club, April 10, 1992.
Panelist, Feminist Perspectives on Intergenerational Responsibilities, Family Law and Aging Committee, AALS Annual Meeting, January 4, 1992.
Faculty Workshop, Feminist Legal Theory, North Carolina Central University School of Law, April 24, 1991.
Keynote Speaker, Feminist Legal Theory in a Nutshell, CLE Program on Feminist Jurisprudence, Lewis & Clark School of Law, April 19, 1991.
Florrie Wilkes Sanders Lecture, Interdisciplinary Connections in Feminist Thought, Vanderbilt Law School, April 9, 1991.
Presentation, Tradition, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law Faculty Law and Social Science Workshop, March 22, 1991.
Panelist, New Perspectives on Difference, and Political Correctness and Transformative Politics, Frontiers of Legal Thought Conference, Duke University School of Law, January 26-27, 1991.
Women's Studies Faculty Seminar Presentation, Feminism Under Construction, Women's Studies Program, Duke University, February 15, 1988.
Panelist, Litigation in a Different Voice?, Litigation section meeting at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, January 4, 1991.
Presentation, The Limits of Law, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law Conference "Putting Theory into Practice," September 1990.
Discussion leader, The Voices of Women, AALS Conference on Women in Legal Education, March 20-21, 1990.
Presenter, Feminist Against Feminist: Will the "Real Feminist" Please Stand?, Queens University School of Law, March 2, 1990.
Panelist, Feminist Views on "Hate Speech" Regulation, Duke Law School Conference on Frontiers of Legal Thought, January 1990.
Speaker, Feminist Legal Methodologies, National Humanities Center, December 1989.
Speaker, Feminist Legal Theory, Women's Law Society, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law, March 23, 1989.
Speaker, Feminist Methodology, Training Workshop, Duke-UNC Center for Research on Women, Ford Foundation Women's Studies Curriculum Development Project, March 24, 1989.
Speaker, Women and the Family, Society and the State, History Department, UNC-Chapel Hill, February 28, 1989.
Speaker, Feminist Legal Theory, Philosophy and the Law Course, Philosophy Department, Duke University, February 8, 1989.
Speaker, Women's Moral Reasoning, Pilgrim United Church of Christ, February 6, 1989.
Speaker, Feminist Legal Theory, Seminar on Gender Issues, National Humanities Center, November 8, 1988.
Speaker, Legal Issues in New Reproductive Technologies, Duke Alumni Weekend Panel, Duke University, September 24, 1988.
Advisor, Duke-UNC Center for Research on Women, Women's Studies Curriculum Development Project, 1988-1989.
Lecturer, BAR/BRI Bar Review Course, Family Law, June 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
Panelist, Surrogate Parenthood, sponsored by Duke Women's Law Society, March 17, 1988.
Testimony, Legal Considerations in Surrogate Parenting Contracts, before the Adoptions/Surrogate Parenthood Study Commission of the North Carolina General Assembly, February 2, 1988.
Guest, Public Radio Talk Show, Madison, Wisconsin, July 28, 1987 (interviewed about feminist legal theory).
Testimony, North Carolina House Judiciary Committee Hearings on Review of N.C. General Statutes section 50-13.2 (Child Custody), July 14, 1987.
Speaker, Rights and Responsibility in Women's Claims for Exclusive Parenthood, Feminism and Legal Theory Conference, Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison School of Law, July 28, 1987.
Keynote Speaker, The Legal Response to Families in Trouble, North Carolina Judicial Conference on Permanent Families, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 27, 1985.
Speaker, Joint Custody, Feminism, and the Dependency Dilemma, Feminism and Legal Theory Conference, Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison School of Law, July 24, 1985.
Speaker, Seminar on Children and the Law, National Conference of State Legislatures, Law and Justice Committee, Washington, D.C., March 7, 1985.
Recipient of grant under Small Grants Program of National Institute for Dispute Resolution, Summer 1985, for preparation of Child Advocacy: Reading and Problems, child advocacy course materials emphasizing non-adversarial dispute resolution.
Panelist, The Education for All Handicapped Children Act: Ten Years Later, at 1985 annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, Law and Education Section, Washington, D.C., January 1985.
Speaker, The Guardian ad Litem as Advocate in the Court: Documentation, Evidentiary Issues, Hearings, and Decisions, North Carolina Guardian ad Litem Conference, Institute of Government, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 9, 1984.
Special Faculty Editor, Fall 1984 issue of Law and Contemporary Problems symposium issue on Children with Special Needs in Public Education. Convened conference February 1984 of symposium authors.
Panelist, The Legal Response to Changing Family Stereotypes, at January 1984 annual meeting of Association of American Law Schools, Women in Legal Education and Family Law Section, San Francisco.
Panelist, Training Conference on Representing Handicapped Children in the Public Schools, Raleigh, North Carolina, May 7-8, 1983, sponsored by Governor's Advocacy Council for Persons with Disabilities and Carolina Legal Assistance for Mentally Handicapped.

Current Professional Affiliations:

Member, Legal Aid of North Carolina Access to Justice Campaign Leadership Committee, 2006-2007
Member, North Carolina Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism, 2005-2007
Board Member, American Law Deans Association, 2005-2007
Law School Development Committee, American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar (2002-05)
Board of Directors, Durham County Department of Social Services (since 1999) (Chair, 2002-03)
Vice President, North Carolina Bar Association (2002-03)
Board of Directors, Urban Ministries Center of Durham (since 1991)
American Law Institute (since 1989); Co-Reporter, Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution (since 1994). R. Ammi Cutter Chair (since 1998)
North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys (since 1985)
Society of American Law Teachers