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Alison Barnes (JD 85) Professor of Law, Marquette University CAREER HIGHLIGHTS • Senior Policy Analyst for the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging • Elder Law: Cases and Materials (Lexis Publ. with Lawrence A. Frolik, U. Pitt.), first published 1992, 4th ed. 2007, used in 80 U.S. law schools (Lexis estimate) • Founder, Elder’s Advisor, an elder law review, now in its 8th volume Old things always held a fascination for me, from researching my familyʼs arrival in 1734 Philadelphia as indigent religious refugees, to reading Sumerian cuneiform from black market tablets for my UF degree in history, to my favorite times playing cards with my grandparents, who lived to ages 94 and 96. The durability of the knowledge calls for respect. My calling in the law came by chance when I worked with elderly people in Alachua County and found their unsolvable problems to be legal in nature. A body of law and policy termed “elder law” was at the brink of recognition by policy makers and the bar, and I needed to know all about it—and tell the story to legislatures, communities and students. Writing up Florida law on aging issues for the Center for Governmental Responsibility and teaching elder law for the first time to a dozen law and graduate students became the segue to the first casebook in the field. My students, whether in Gainesville, Milwaukee, Maine or Miami, are the path to better lives for elders, and ultimately to a better history of our culture as one that values depth of knowledge and durable ideas. David Schmudde (JD 72) Professor of Law, Fordham University I was mesmerized by Professor Baldwin in my first-year Constitutional Law class. As I watched how he handled the class, I realized this is what I wished I could do. He was challenging us to look at life and the world from a new perspective. All my previous educational experiences had been in math and science. His class opened my mind to what to me was unexplored territory. It began my dream of becoming a professor of law. Jack Freeland showed me that a seemingly dry subject like tax could be not only interesting but exciting. After my first year in Income Tax, I constantly pursued a goal of teaching law. I greatly admired the ability to generate enthusiasm for a subject in students who had never been exposed to the subject before. Ultimately, I believe that that is my job, passing on the enthusiasm that I have for a subject to a whole new generation of lawyers. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS • Founded Fordham’s low income taxpayer litigation clinic • Three books, including Federal Tax Liens, which is used as a training guide by the IRS. • Mediator for the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York • Keefe Award by Fordham law students for contributions to the law school 36 U F L A W
‘‘ Jack Freeland showed me that a seemingly dry subject like tax could be not only interesting but exciting. After my first year in Income Tax, I constantly pursued a goal of teaching law. ‘‘ Robert F. Williams (JD 69) Distinguished Professor of Law Associate Director, Center for State Constitutional Studies Rutgers University, Camden I remember taking Florida Constitutional Law from Professor L. Harold Levinson (who later taught at Vanderbilt) at UF Law in 1969. He had put together his own materials for the course, and was kind enough to include my 1969 Law Review Note in Volume 21 on the property tax provisions of the new Florida Constitution of 1968. (The Florida Supreme Court cited this as controlling authority in 2006!) I was aware of the new state constitution because, as a legislative aide for then-Florida Rep. Bob Graham during the summer of 1967 before coming to law school, I had participated in the Legislatureʼs successful efforts to revise the 1885 Constitution. In that class, Professor Levinson had us read several out-of-state decisions, which indicated to me for the first time that state constitutional law could be studied from a comparative perspective, with one stateʼs interpretations of a similar provision of its constitution providing useful guidance for another state facing the same question. This insight has influenced my work on state constitutional law in teaching, lecturing and writing during my 27 years at Rutgers Law School. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS • As a Legal Services lawyer, served as the reporter for the Florida Law Revision Council in 1972-73 to draft the Florida Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, Chapter 83, Part II, Florida Statutes, and won Grissom v. Dade County, 293 So. 2d 59 (Fla. 1974) to provide for free publication of notice or courthouse posting in a wide range of litigation by indigent plaintiffs • Legal adviser to the Minister of Justice of Afghanistan, in Kabul, 1974-1976 • State Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials, 4th Ed. 2006, used at a number of law schools and is only casebook on state constitutional law with a national perspective S U M M E R 2 0 0 7 37
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