Board of Appeals and Review JoanE. Schaffner Confirmation Resolution of 2001PR 14-100

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, Washington, DC, Associate Professor of Law
Areas of Teaching & Scholarship: Civil Procedure, Patent Law, Sexuality & the Law,
1992-present

JUDICIAL CLERKSHIP, United States District Court, Central District of California, Law
Clerk for the Honorable Mariana R Pfaelzer, 1991-1992

IRELL & MANELLA, Los Angeles, California, Associate, Summer Associate, General
Corporate Litigation, Summer 1989

NILSSON, ROBBINS, DALGARN, BERLINER, CARLSON & WURST, Los Angeles, California,
Summer Associate, Intellectual Property Litigation, Summer 1988

GEORGIA POWER COMPANY, Atlanta, Georgia, Generation Analyst, Authored testimony,
provided production analyses, published article in Utility Planning Model Users Bulletin,
featured lecturer at Arthur Andersen Seminar, 1986-1987

ENERGY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES, Atlanta, Georgia Senior Consultant & Supervisor
Developed/Administered system policies, procedures, & client training;
Authored/Maintained documentation, 1981-1986

MEMBERSHIPS

Bar Admissions: California State Bar, Washington D.C. Bar

Member: American Intellectual Property Law Association, American Bar Association, Society
of American Law Teachers, Federal Circuit Bar, GAYLAW

AWARDS

Honorary Member Golden Key Honor Society

First Faculty Recipient of Lambda Law Award (1995)

PUBLICATIONS

The Supreme Court Giveth and the Supreme Court Taketh Away-The Right to Civil Jury
Trial (work-in-progress)

Approaching the New Millennium with Mixed Blessings for Harassed Gay Students, 22
HARVARD WOMEN’S LAW JOURNAL – (upcoming May, 1999)

Combating Gay Harassment in Our Schools: A Student Guide (1998)

Combating Gay Harassment in Our Schools: An Advocate’s Guide (1998)

The Essence of Marriage (Book Review), 66 GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW
195 (1997)

Federal Circuit "Choice of Law": Erie Through the Looking Glass, 8 81
IOWA LAW REVIEW 1173 (1996)

Patent Preemption Unlocked, 1995 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW 1081

Engendering Social Security Disability Determinations: The Path of a Woman Claimant,
68 TULANE LAW REVIEW 1477 (1994) (co-authored with Peter Lee and Sheri Porath)

Working Paper of the Ninth Circuit Gender Bias Task Force, Advisory Committee on
Federal Benefits, Gender in Social Security Disability Determinations (1993)
(co-authored with Peter Lee and Sheri Porath)

Protection of Reputation Versus Freedom of Expression: Striking a Manageable
Compromise in the Tort of Defamation, 63 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 433 (1990)

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

"Approaching the New Millennium with Mixed Blessings for Harassed Gay
Students" GWU Scholars Showcase `99 (January 1999)

"Judicial Clerkships" at Washington Area Legal Recruitment Administrators
Association Luncheon (July 1997, July 1995, July 1993)

"Civil Procedure" at Patent Academy, Juris Masters Program (Fall 1996)

"Bridging the Gap-Training New Patent Attorneys" at American Intellectual
Property Law Association, Fall Meeting, Washington D.C. (October 1993)

"Gender in Social Security Disability Determinations" at Thirtieth Annual
Seminar Federal Administrative Law Judges Conference, Williamsburg, VA (September 1993)

ACTIVITIES

Editor-in-Chief, AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY JOURNAL
   (1994-preset)

University Service:

Current: Chair, Curriculum Committee

Chair, Committee on Incidents of Discrimination and Harassment

Faculty Advisor-Lambda Law; AIPLA QUARTERLY JOURNAL GW Staff

Member, Finnegan Prize Committee

Past: Scholarship Committee (1992-1996)

Clerkship Committee (1992-1996)

Faculty Secretary (1993-1994)

Alternate Member. Committee on the Status of Women Faculty and Librarians of GWU
(1993-1995).

Community Service:

Volunteer, Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL) (1997-current)

Convener of Federal Benefits Advisory Committee to the Ninth Circuit Gender Bias Task
Force (1991-1993)

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW CENTER, 1987-1990

Juris Doctor

Grade Point Average: 83.92, Class Standing: Top 3%

Order of the Coif

Activities & Honors:

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW:

Executive Publications Editor, Volume 63 (1989-1990)

Staff Member, Volume 62 (1988-1989)

Legion Lex Merit Scholarship

American Jurisprudence Awards:

Criminal Procedure, Business Organizations, Professional Responsibility

Research Assistant:

Professor Judith Resnik (1990)

Professor Erwin Chemerinsky (1988-1989)

Visiting Professor Mark Tushnet (1988)

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 1979-1981

Master of Science: Mechanical Engineering

Grade Point Average: 3.86

Full Research Scholarship

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1975-1979

Bachelor of Science: Mechanical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude

Grade Point Average: 3.97

Activities and Honors:

Order of the Laurel

Mortar Board

Phi Kappa Phi

Tau Beta Pi

Pi Tau Sigma

Teaching Assistant in Mechanical Engineering

Research Assistant: Professor P. Roy Choudhury