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Washington University in St. Louis News & Information > Faculty Experts at Washington University in St. Louis >

Jane Harris Aiken

William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law

Expertise: clinical legal education, evidence, domestic violence, domestic law, child abuse

Bio:
Jane Aiken
Jane Aiken
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Aiken is well known for her work in clinical legal education and violence. She teaches evidence for the Federal Judicial Center, training federal judges on developments in evidence. She has worked on women's rights and policy issues in Ethiopia as a State Department Senior Specialist and in Nepal as a Fullbright Senior Scholar. Currently, Aiken is Academic Director of the Interdisciplinary Children and Youth Project, which draws faculty from the schools of Law, Medicine and Social Work to study the effects of violence on children's health.

WUSTL Contact Information:
Work:(314) 935-8583
E-mail:aiken@wustl.edu
Address:One Brookings Drive
Campus Box 1120
St. Louis, MO 63130

Education:
  • B.A. at Hollins College
  • J.D. at New York University
  • LL.M. at Georgetown University Law Center

Additional Background: Aiken is on the Editorial Board of the Clinical Law Review. She is also director of the Civil Justice Clinic in which students act as lawyers under supervision in cases involving a wide array of legal issues including domestic violence, predatory lending, housing and women's policy work in Nepal.

Selected Recent Publications

* "Leveling the Playing Feild: Federal Rules of Evidence," Quinnipiac Law Review (forthcoming)

* "Dealing eith Complex Evidence of Domestic Violence: A Primer for the Civil Bench," 39 Court Review (2002) (with J. Murphy)

* "Protecting Plaintiff's Sexual Pasts: Coping with Preconceptions Through Discretion," 51 Emory Law Journal 559 (2002)

* "Law as Social Work," Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, (Fall 2002) (with S. Wizner)

* "Sexual Character Evidence in Civil Actions: Refining th Propensity Rule," 1997 Wisconsin Law Review

* "Striving to Teach Justice, Fairness and Morality," 4 Clinical Law Review 1 (1997)

* "Intimate Violence: The Problem of Consent: An Essay," 48 South Carolina Law Review 615 (1997)


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Media Assistance:

Jessica Martin
Director, News & Information for the School of Law and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work
jessica_martin@wustl.edu

(314) 935-5251
Related Links:
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Schools:
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Monday, Sept. 18, 2006


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