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Joan E. Steinman
Distinguished Professor of Law
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Professor Steinman received her bachelor's degree in philosophy
from the University of Rochester and her law degree from
Harvard Law School, where she served on the
Harvard
Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. She was
admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1973 and practiced with
the Chicago law firm of Schiff Hardin & Waite from
1973 to 1977, specializing in civil litigation.
Professor Steinman joined the faculty of Chicago-Kent
in 1977 and served as interim dean in 1990-91. She
has authored articles on the associational privacy
privilege in civil litigation, class actions, suits
for money damages to vindicate First Amendment rights,
pseudonymous litigation, law of the case doctrine,
removal, supplemental jurisdiction, the effects of
case consolidation on litigants' procedural rights,
appellate jurisdiction and other procedural issues.
She is responsible for two volumes of the Wright,
et al., Federal Practice and
Procedure treatise, and co-authors a casebook on appellate courts. To see the Table of Contents of the Appellate Courts casebook, please click here.
Professor Steinman was the 1992 chair of the Association
of American Law Schools Complex Litigation Committee
of the Civil Procedure Section. She was a member of
the American Law Institute Complex Litigation Project
Consultative Group, has served on the executive committee
of the AALS Civil Procedure Section, was appointed to the Seventh Circuit Advisory Committee on Circuit Rules, and has been
a master in the Chicago-Lincoln American Inn of Court.
Most recently, she was an adviser on the A.L.I.
Federal Judicial Code Revision Project. In 1989, Professor Steinman
was named a Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar. She subsequently earned the Dean's Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and received awards from the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, the Chicago-Kent Moot Court Society, the Chicago-Kent Student Bar Association, and IIT. Professor Steinman teaches
courses in civil procedure, complex litigation, and appellate
courts.
