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Professor of Law and Professor of African & African American Studies and

Expertise: alternative dispute resolution, civil rights mediation, clinical legal education, law of employment discrimination, elderlaw, legal education

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Karen Tokarz
Karen Tokarz
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Karen Tokarz is a leader in both national and international clinical education, as well as an expert in civil rights mediation and the law of employment discrimination. She was instrumental in building the School of Law's top ranked clinical legal education program, which she has directed since 1980. Tokarz was awarded the Israel Treiman Faculty Fellowship for 2000-01 for which she worked at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa on the development of clinical legal education in South Africa.

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Work:(314) 935-6414
Fax:(314) 935-5182
E-mail:tokarz@wulaw.wustl.edu
Address:One Brookings Drive
Campus Box 1120
St. Louis, MO 63130

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Public Interest Law & Policy

Washington University School of Law's 11th annual "Access to Justice" speaker series begins Sept. 23 (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/12306.html)

Sept. 4, 2008 -- Terry Smith, J.D., professor of law at Fordham University and nationally recognized expert on race and politics, will kick off Washington University School of Law's 11th annual Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series with a timely talk on "Politics and Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Meaning of a Black President" on Tuesday, Sept. 23. The fall line-up of speakers also includes an international peace negotiator, a former government environmental attorney and administrator, a renowned human rights lawyer and author, and a nationally recognized leader in the marriage equality movement.


Public interest law series begins Sept. 12

Law school speakers to focus on access to justice (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/9941.html)

Aug. 31, 2007 -- Presentations about Guantanamo and the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy are among the highlights of the School of Law's tenth annual Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series, which begins Sept. 10. All lectures will be held at noon in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. They are free and open to the public.


Convicted, executed but not guilty?

Wrongful executions to be examined at WUSTL law conference Nov. 17 (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/8209.html)

Nov. 8, 2006 -- The WUSTL School of Law's Clinical Education Program and Center for Interdisciplinary Studies will host the sixth annual Access to Equal Justice conference Nov. 17 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall. The conference will focus on "Examining the Risks of Wrongful Executions and the Role of Prosecutors, Defense Attorneys, Academia and the Press." Panelists will examine four criminal cases that many critics believe ended in the executions of innocent defendants.


Access to Justice

WUSTL law school speaker series focuses on public interest (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/7616.html)

Sept. 19, 2006 -- A lead counsel in the Guantanamo Bay detainees U.S. Supreme Court case, an expert on pornography in feminism and law, and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee for his work in international criminal justice are part of the fall lineup for the School of Law's ninth annual Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series.


The Way We Weren't: Debunking notions of modern marriage

Historian Stephanie Coontz tackles the modern concept of marriage (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/6419.html)

Jan. 23, 2006 -- Family historian Stephanie Coontz will debunk popular myths about marriage and the family in her Assembly Series/School of Law lecture, "Courting Disaster? The World Historical Transformation of Marriage." The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 11 a.m.Wednesday, February 1 in Graham Chapel.



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Additional Background: Tokarz is a past chair of the Association of American Law Schools Clinical Education Section and past president of the Clinical Legal Education Association (U.S.). She is an honorary member of the American Board of Trial Advocacy, a regional project director for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA), and a member of the Standards Review Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar for 2000-2003. She is the co-author of Elderlaw: Advocacy for the Aging (2d ed., West 1997; Supp. 1998-2001) and contributing author of The Law of Amateur and Professional Sports (Clark Boardman Callaghan 1988 & Supp. 1991-2000).
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