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Peter A. Joy

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Professor of Law

Expertise: constitutional law, legal ethics, trial practice, clinical legal education, criminal justice

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Peter Joy
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Peter Joy has a national reputation for his work in clinical legal education, and he is expert in the areas of legal ethics and trial practice. Joy is the Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic, in which students both provide direct representation to clients as student lawyers under his supervision and participate as second chair attorneys with experienced public defenders on more serious criminal trial. He also teaches Trial Practice & Procedure, The Legal Profession and a Comparative Legal Ethics Seminar. Joy has written about clinical legal education, legal ethics, lawyer and judicial professionalism, and access to justice issues. He currently co-authors a regular ethics column for Criminal Justice, a quarterly publication of the American Bar Association. He has also been interviewed on various legal issues by the national media, including ABA Student Lawyer, The American Lawyer, The Economist, The Legal Times, National Jurist, The National Law Journal, The Progressive, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, AP Wire, and by the media in a dozen different states.

WUSTL Contact Information:
Work:(314) 935-6445
Fax:(314) 935-5356
E-mail:joy@wulaw.wustl.edu
Address:One Brookings Drive
Campus Box 1120
St. Louis, MO 63130

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Settlement is reached in Bryant case
New York Times

March 3, 2005 -- A civil lawsuit against the Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant brought by a woman who said he raped her in a Colorado hotel quietly folded with a one-paragraph declaration that the parties had reached a settlement. The final combination at the end of the case — dropped charges, a public apology, and now the out-of-court settlement of the civil case — struck some scholars as a rough approximation of justice, however inconclusive it might seem under the strict parameters of the law or public resolution of the issues.
''Criminal justice can only bring a certain kind of closure to a matter,'' said Peter A. Joy, a professor at the Washington University school of law in St. Louis. ''There's another kind of closure that costs money in our society.''



Additional Background: Joy has been an active public interest lawyer. He has litigated federal class action lawsuits, First Amendment cases, consumer lawsuits, and union democracy cases. He has also performed pro bono work for battered women and has represented individuals and families seeking political asylum. He was "of counsel" on a matter argued before the United States Supreme Court, and he has argued before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and in state appellate court. Joy has also co-authored amicus briefs in the Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, and Sixth Circuits, and he has been local counsel on matters in the Courts of Appeals for the Sixth and Eighth Circuits.

Joy is the recipient of the 2001 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Pincus Award, which is presented annually to honor one or more individuals or institutions for effecting an outstanding contribution to the cause of clinical legal education. He is presently President-Elect for the Clinical Legal Education Association, and he is a former Chair of the Section on Clinical Legal Education for the AALS. Joy also serves as a Program Director at Large for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA), and he is the former Program Director for NITA's Great Lakes Deposition Program.

Selected Publications:

* "The Evolution of ABA Externship Standards: Steps in the Right Direction," 10 Clinical Law Review (forthcoming, 2004)

* "An Etics Critique of Interference in Law School Clinics," 71 Fordham Law Review 1971 (2003) (with Robert R. Kuehn).

* "The Law School Clinic as a Model Ethical Legal Office," 30 William Mitchell Law Review (2003)

* "Brother's Keeper: Must You Protect Opponent's Confidentiality?" 18 ABA Criminal Justice ( Fall, 2003) (with Kevin C. McMunigal)

* "Has Gideon's Promise been Fulfilled?" 18 ABA Criminal Justice 46 ( Summer, 2003)

* "Inadequate Representation and Wrongful Conviction," 18 ABA Criminal Justice 32 (Spring, 2003)

* "The Ethics of the Blame Shifting Strategy," 18 ABA Criminal Justice 32 (Winter, 2003) (with Kevin C. McMunigal)

• "Making Ethics Opinions Meaningful: Toward More Effective Regulation of Lawyers' Conduct," 15 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics (forthcoming 2002)

• "Anti-Contact Rule in Criminal Cases," ABA Criminal Justice (Winter, 2002) (with Kevin C. McMunigal)

• "Disclosing Exculpatory Material in Plea Negotiations," ABA Criminal Justice (Fall, 2001) (with Kevin C. McMunigal).

• "A Professionalism Creed for Judges: Leading by Example," 52 South Carolina Law Review 667 (2001)

• "Clinical Legal Education for This Millenium: The Third Wave," 7 Clinical Law Review 1 (2000) (with Margaret Martin Barry & Jon Dubin)

• "Insulation Needed for Elected Judges, National Law Journal, Jan. 10, 2000, at A19

• "Political Interference with Clinical Legal Education Programs: Denying Access to Justice," 74 Tulane Law Review 235 (1999)

• "Access to Justice, Academic Freedom, and Political Interference: A Clinical Program Under Siege," 4 Clinical Law Review 51 (1998) (with Charles Weisselberg)

• "Submission of the Association of American Law Schools to the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana Concerning the Review of the Supreme Court's Student Practice Rule," 4 Clinical Law Review 539 (1998) (with Jorge deNeve and Charles D. Weisselberg)

• "Ethics Perspectives: What Are the Ethical Ramifications of an 'Of Counsel' Affiliation?" 68 Cleveland Bar Journal 20 (1997)

• "Amendments to Disciplinary Rules Create New Expectations for Ohio Lawyers," Law & Fact, 1997, at 12

• "Clinical Scholarship: Improving the Practice of Law," 2 Clinical Law Review 385 (1996)

• "Clients are Consumers, Too," 82 A.B.A. Journal 120 (April, 1996)

• "Unpublished Opinions Stunt Common Law," National Law Journal, Jan. 29, 1996, at A19

• "Losing Titles," Ohio Lawyer, Jan.-Feb. 1996, at 14

• "A Time to Disrobe to Save Your Honor," National Law Journal, Aug. 14, 1995, at A19

• "What We Talk About When We Talk About Professionalism,"7 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 987 (1994)

• "The MacCrate Report: Moving Toward Integrated Learning Experiences," 1 Clinical Law Review 401 (1994)


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