RESUME

Penelope Eileen Bryan

Current Position:

Dean and Professor of Law

Courses Taught:

Family Law, Civil Procedure, Advanced Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, Family Law Clinic Supervision, Child Advocacy Clinic Supervision, Advanced Seminars in Family Law and Domestic Violence

Publications:

PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME: A PERNICIOUS LEGACY [book in progress] Attorney Fees, Justice and Ethics in Marriage Dissolution [article in progress] CONSTRUCTIVE DIVORCE: PROCEDURAL JUSTICE AND SOCIOLEGAL REFORM (2006) Vacant Promises? The ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution and the Post-Divorce Financial Circumstances of Women, 8 DUKE J. GENDER L. & POL’Y 101 (2001) Reasking the Woman Question at Divorce, 75 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 713 (2000) Collaborative Divorce: Meaningful Reform or Another “Quick Fix?”, 5 PSYCH., PUB. POL’Y & L. 1001 (1999) Women's Freedom to Contract at Divorce: A Mask for Contextual Coercion, 47 BUFF. L. REV. 1153 (1999) The Coercion of Women in Divorce Settlement Negotiations, 74 U. L. REV. 931 (1997) Reclaiming Professionalism: The Lawyer's Role in DivorceMediation, 28 FAM. L.Q. 177 (1994) Toward Deconstructing the Deconstruction of Law andLawyers, 71 DENV. U.L. REV. 161 (1993) Killing Us Softly: Divorce Mediation and the Politics of Power, 40 BUFF. L. REV. 441 (1992)

1 Holding Women's Psyches Hostage: An Interpretive Analogy on the Thomas/Hill Hearings, 69 DENV. U.L. REV. 171 (1992)

Education:

M.A., Sociology, University of Florida (1989) with concentrations in family sociology, conflict/dispute resolution, social theory and law, women's issues. Received Ruth A. McQuown Scholarship in 1986-87 as the outstanding female graduate student in women's studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Certified as a divorce mediator in conjunction with masters thesis.

J.D., with honors, University of Florida College of Law (1981). Order of Coif. Executive Editor, Law Review

B.S., with honors, Rollins College, 1978. Social Science major

Professional Employment History:

2009 to present: Dean and Professor of Law, Whittier Law School 2006 to 2009: Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Sturm College of Law 2004 to 2009: Professor of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 1995-2004: Associate Professor of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law 2001-2002, 2003-2004: Visiting Professor, University of Miami School of Law 1996 to 1997: Visiting Scholar, Northwestern Law School 1988 to 1995: Assistant Professor of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law 1986-1988: Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, University of Florida College of Arts and Sciences 1984-1986: Self Employed, private law practice: family law and civil litigation 1983-1984: Associate, civil trial practice, Stephen A. Rappenecker, PA, 2251 N.W. 41st Street, Gainesville, Florida 32607 1981-1982: Teacher, Legal Writing and Appellate Advocacy, University of Illinois College of Law

Consultant

2000-2008: Expert Consultant in Family Law & Civil Procedure, Elaine G. Edinburg, PC, research and write motions, trial briefs and appellate briefs and serve as trial consultant in highly contested dissolution of marriage cases.

Professional Memberships:

Florida Bar Association, 1983 to present

2 American Bar Association, 1984 to present Schwab Essay Contest Committee, Family Law Section, American Bar Association, 1994 to 1998 Publication Development Board, ABA Family Law Section, 1995 to 1997

Representative Lectures/Presentations:

“Legal Education & The Profession,” Proviso, May 2012 [forthcoming] “Alternatives to Litigation in Dissolution of Marriage,” Whittier Law School summer study abroad program in Santander, Spain and Toulouse, France [July 2010] “Women, Children and Dissolution of Marriage,” Whittier Law School summer study abroad program in Santander, Spain and Toulouse, France [July 2010] “Women and Myths: Parental Alienation Syndrome,” University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Fall 2009. “Divorce Procedures,” University of Wisconsin School of Law, Fall 2007. “Parental Alienation,” University of Wisconsin School of Law, Fall 2007. “ Family Law Update,” Judges Training Sponsored by the Colorado Judicial Department, Fall 2007. “Closing Panel on Domestic Violence,” Domestic Violence Conference, University of Denver College of Law, Spring 2007. “Constructive Divorce: Procedural Justice and Sociolegal Reform,” University of Miami School of Law, Fall 2006. “Divorce Reconstructed,” Provost’s Lecture at the University of Denver, Fall 2006. “Children in Domestic Relations Law,” American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, October 2001. "Mediation in Cases of Domestic Violence," Colorado Mediation Association, October, 1999 “Representation of Battered Women in Custody Cases,” A.W.A.R.E., October, 1998 "Women's Freedom to Contract at Divorce: A Mask for Contextual Coercion?," DePaul Law School, October, 1998 "Mediation in Cases of Domestic Violence," Colorado Women's Bar Association, March, 1998 "Women's Freedom to Contract at Divorce: A Mask for Contextual Coercion," Northwestern Law School, April, 1997 "The Coercion of Women in Divorce Settlement Negotiations," Conference on Coercion and Exploitation, University of Denver, College of Law, March 1997 Reconstructing Justice in Divorce Through Procedural and Substantive Reform," Institute of Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin, College of Law, May 1995 & American Bar Foundation, April, 1995.

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