• Professor, School of Law

Susan Appleton

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• A.B. in Philosophy at Vassar College
• J.D. at University of California at Berkeley

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Drink your milk Dietary calcium is better than supplements at protecting bone health June 12, 2007 -- Women who get most of their daily calcium from food have healthier bones than women whose calcium comes mainly from supplemental tablets, say researchers at the School of Medicine. Surprisingly, this is true even though the supplement takers have higher average calcium intake.

Source of spinal deformity found Scientists identify first gene linked to scoliosis June 11, 2007 -- An X-ray of a case of scoliosis. Physicians have recognized scoliosis, the abnormal curvature of the spine, since the time of Hippocrates, but its causes have remained a mystery — until now. Researchers at the School of Medicine and collaborating institutions have discovered a gene that underlies the condition, which affects about three percent of all children. The finding lays the groundwork for determining how the genetic defect leads to the C- and S-shaped curves that characterize scoliosis.

International Women's Day celebration Herma Hill Kay to deliver lecture,"Celebrating Early Women Law Professors," March 4 Feb. 25, 2004 -- Herma Hill Kay, the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law and former dean at the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), will deliver a lecture on "Celebrating Early Women Law Professors" 9 a.m. March 4 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The lecture will follow the Women's Law Caucus' fifth annual International Women's Day Celebration at 8 a.m. in the Janite Lee Reading Room, honoring Kay, Washington University School of Law alumnae who graduated 50 or more years ago, and the law school's first three tenured women professors, Susan Appleton, Kathleen Brickey, and Karen Tokarz.

Public interest law Law school presents ?Access to Justice? speaker series Jan. 15, 2004 -- The Counsel for the NAACP, the Chief Judge Emeritus and Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and experts on American Indian water rights, globalization, civil rights, women's legal history, disability rights, death penalty, and economics are part of the spring lineup for the School of Law's sixth annual Public Interest Law Speaker Series.

Same-sex marriage Massachusetts Supreme Court took bold step on same-sex marriage, but ruling was outcome of 'contemporary legal developments' Dec. 16, 2003 -- The recent ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court allowing same-sex marriages relied on the state constitution's guarantees of both individual liberty and equality to conclude that no rational basis supports the exclusion of same-sex couples from civil marriage and its benefits, according to Susan Appleton, a family law expert at Washington University in St. Louis. "Although the court took a bold step, the outcome follows unremarkably from a number of contemporary legal developments," says Appleton, the Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law.

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Her recent publications include "'Planned Parenthood': Adoption, Assisted Reproduction, and the New Ideal Family," Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (1999); "Assisted Suicide and Reproductive Freedom: Exploring Some Connections," Washington University Law Quarterly (1998); "Standards for Constitutional Review of Privacy-Invading Welfare Reforms: Distinguishing the Abortion-Funding Cases and Redeeming the Undue-Burden Test," Vanderbilt Law Review (1996); and "When Welfare Reforms Promote Abortion: 'Personal Responsibility,' 'Family Values,' and the Right to Choose," Georgetown Law Journal (1996).

Appleton is the co-director for the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies' 2001-02 program on "Law and the Human Genome Project: Research, Medicine, and Commerce." During Spring 2001, she also supervised four women law students who taught a for-credit course for undergraduates in "Women and the Law."

In April 2000, Appleton became the inaugural recipient of the Lemma Barkeloo and Phoebe Couzins Professorship, named in honor of two individuals who, when they enrolled at this law school in 1869, might well have been the nation's first women law students.

Recent Publications

Books

• Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials (Aspen Law and Business 1998) (with D. K. Weisberg)

Articles

• "Planned Parenthood": Adoption, Assisted Reproduction, and the New Ideal Family, 1 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 85 (1999)
• Assisted Suicide and Reproductive Freedom: Exploring Some Connections, 76 Washington University Law Quarterly 15 (1998)
• When Welfare Reforms Promote Abortion: "Personal Responsibility," "Family Values", and the "Right to Choose", 85 Georgetown Law Journal 155 (1996)
• Standards for Constitutional Review of Privacy-Invading Welfare Reforms: Distinguishing the Abortion-Funding Cases and Redeeming the Undue-Burden Test, 49 Vanderbilt Law Review 1 (1996)