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JUDITH AREEN
I. Personal
Office: Association of American Law Schools
1614 20th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009-1001
(202) 296-8851 jareen@aals.org
Home: 4212 Rosemary Street
Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815
(301) 656-9241 judith.areen@gmail.com
Married to Richard Cooper
II. Current Positions
Executive Director Emeritus, Association of American Law Schools
Professor of Law Emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center. Between 1989 and
2004, she served as Executive Vice President for Law Affairs of Georgetown University.
III. Education
J.D. Yale Law School, 1969
A.B. Cornell University, 1966
James Whitcomb Riley High School
South Bend, Indiana, 1962
IV. Honors
Legal Times Champion of Justice Award, 2008.
Janet Reno Torchbearer Award of the Women’s Bar Association, 2007.
Paul Regis Dean Chair, 2004.
Doctor of Laws (Honorary) Georgetown University, 2004.
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Pro Bono Institute Laurie D. Zelon Award, 2004.
Equal Justice Works Dean of the Year Award, 2003.
National Women’s Law Center Award, 1998.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1988-1989.
Selected by the National Law Journal as one of the one hundred leading lawyers
in the United States, 1991, 1994.
V. Employment Experience
2013-June 2024 Executive Director and CEO, Association of American Law
Schools.
1972-2017 Georgetown University.
2010 Interim Executive Vice President for Law Center Affairs and
Interim Dean of the law Center.
2004-2017 Paul Regis Dean Professor of Law.
1989-2004 Executive Vice President for Law Center Affairs and
Dean of the Law Center.
1987-1989 Co-Director, Joint Degree Program in Public Health and Law.
1980-1989 Professor of Community and Family Medicine,
School of Medicine.
1976-2004 Professor of Law.
1972-1976 Associate Professor of Law.
1988-1990 Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns
Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.
1977-1980 Office of Management and Budget, Washington, D.C.
(On leave from Georgetown University).
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1979-1980 General Counsel and Domestic Reorganization Coordinator of the
President’s Reorganization Project.
1978-1980 Special Counsel to the White House Task Force on
Regulatory Reform.
1970-1972 Director of the Education Voucher Study, Center for the Study of Public
Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1969-1970 Bureau of the Budget, Office of the Mayor, City of New York.
VI. Current Professional Activities
American Law Institute.
District of Columbia Bar.
VII. Past Professional Activities
Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Defense on Women in the Services,
1979-1982.
American Bar Association, Council of the Section on Legal Education 2001-2004.
Association of American Law Schools, President, 2006; Executive Committee,1998 –
2000, 2005 -2007.
Association of American University Professors Subcommittee on Academic Freedom and
Governance, 2009.
Board of Directors, Society of American Law Teachers 1976-1978.
Board of Directors of the D.C. Bar 1979-1981.
Board of Directors, Equal Justice Works, 2004-2009.
Board of Trustees of Cornell University, 1997-2001.
Chair, Harvard Law School Visiting Committee, 2014-2017.
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Committee on the Protection of Impaired Subjects of Research, National Institutes
of Health, 1984-1985.
Committee on Radiological Monitoring, National Research Council, National
Academy of Sciences, 1985-1986.
Editorial Board, Human Gene Therapy Journal, 1990-1998.
Founder and Co-Director, Georgetown Juvenile Justice Clinic, 1973-1976.
Institute of Medicine Committee to Advise DOD on Breast Cancer Research
Program 1992-93.
Institute of Medicine Study Group on Challenges to Clinical Research on
Childhood and Adolescent Mental Disorders, 1988.
Institutional Review Board, Georgetown University School of Medicine, 1986-1988.
NIAAA Clinical Research Subpanel of the National Institutes of Health, 1983-1989.
Pro Bono Institute Board of Directors, 2010-2016.
Subcommittee on Human Gene Therapy of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee,
National Institutes of Health 1988-1992.
VIII. Books and Major Articles
The First 125 Years: An Illustrated History of the Association of American Law Schools
with J. Waterman, 2024.
HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (Foundation Press, 2009)
(Second Edition 2014).
FAMILY LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS with M. Spindelman and P. Tsoukala (Foundation
Press, Sixth Edition, 2012).
BACKGROUND PAPERS FOR FAIR AND INDEPENDENT COURTS: A CONFERENCE ON THE
STATE OF THE JUDICIARY (Editor: American Law Institute/Georgetown University Law
Center 2006).
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LAW, SCIENCE, AND MEDICINE co-authored with P. King, S. Goldberg and L. Gostin
(Foundation Press, Third Edition, 2005).
Accreditation Reconsidered, 96 IOWA. L. REV. 1471 (2011).
Justifying America’s Universities: A Review of THE GREAT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, 37
J.C. & U.L. 195 (2010).
Governing Board Accountability: Competition, Regulation, and Accreditation, 36 J.C. &
U.L. 691 (2010).
Government as Educator: A New Understanding of First Amendment Protection of
Academic Freedom and Governance, 97 GEO. L. J. 945 (2009).
Bioethics and Law: Balancing Intelligent Consent and Individual Autonomy,
31 ARIZ. L. REV. 447 (1990).
Legal Regulation of Human Gene Therapy, HUMAN GENE THERAPY 151 (co-authored)
(1990).
Baby M Reconsidered, 76 GEO. L. J. 1741 (1988).
A Shortage of Organs, J. LEGAL EDUC. (Dec. 1988).
A Need for Caring: Review of Aids and the Law (Dalton, Burris, and the
Yale AIDS Law Project, eds.), 86 MICH. L. REV. 1067 (1988).
Legal Intrusions on Physician Independence in THE PHYSICIAN AS CAPTAIN OF
THE SHIP: A CRITICAL REAPPRAISAL (King, Churchill and Cross eds., 1988).
The Legal Status of Consent Obtained from Families of Adult Patients to
Withhold or Withdraw Treatment, 258 JAMA 229 (1987).
Death and Dying, BIOLAW: A LEGAL AND ETHICAL REPORTER (1986).
Regulating Human Gene Therapy, 88 W. VA. L. REV. 153
(Winter 1985-86).
YOUTH SERVICE AGENCIES (American Bar Association/Institute for Judicial
Administration 1977) (reporter).
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Intervention Between Parent and Child: A Reappraisal of the State’s Role in Child
Neglect and Abuse Cases, 63 GEO. L. J. 887 (1975).
Impeachment: An Historical Overview, 5 SEATON HALL L. REV. 689 (1974)
(With Morgan et al.).
The Rodriguez Case: Judicial Oversight of School Finance, SUP. CT. REV. 33 (1973)
(with Ross).
Public Aid to Nonpublic Schools: A Breach in the Sacred Wall? 22 CASE WESTERN RES.
L. REV. 230 (1971).
Education Vouchers, 6 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 466 (1971).
EDUCATION VOUCHERS (Center for the Study of Public Policy, Cambridge, Mass. 1970)
(with Jencks et al.).