b'CURRICULUM VITAE OF JOHN S. ELSON\n\nAddress:\n\nNorthwestern University School of Law\n357 E. Chicago Avenue\nChicago, Illinois 60611\nTelephone: (312) 503-8573 (direct)\n(312) 503-8576 (office)\n(312) 503-8977 (FAX)\n\nDate of Birth: September 13, 1943\nEducation:\n\nHarvard College, A.B. 1964\nUniversity of Chicago, J.D., 1967;\nUniversity of Chicago, M.A. (education) 1968.\n\nProfessional Employment:\nNorthwestern University School of Law\nProfessor, 1979 \xe2\x80\x93 present\nHarry B. Reese Teaching Professor, 2013\nAssociate Professor, 1976-79\nVisiting Assistant Professor, 1975-76\nStaff attorney-clinical fellow, Mandel Legal\nClinic, University of Chicago Law School, 1971-75\nAttorney, Appeals and Review Division of\nCorporation Counsel of City of Chicago, 1970-71\nAttorney, Legislative Services Branch of National\nInstitute of Mental Health, 1968-70.\nCourses taught: legal clinic, education law, civil procedure, trial practice, pre-trial practice, civil\nrights litigation, negotiations, practicum in judicial clerking and in domestic violence litigation.\nLaw School and University administrative duties and committees: Chair, Northwestern\nUniversity General Faculty Committee (2007-08); Member, Northwestern University General\nFaculty Committee (1999-2002; 2005-2009); Chair, Faculty Senate Committee to revise the\nFaculty Handbook, 2011 and 2000; past chair of Law School Curriculum Committee; Faculty\nadvisor to Law School moot court programs (1978-present), Elected Member of Law School\nFaculty Advisory Committee (2003-05);\nMember of the Illinois Bar; also admitted to practice before the Federal District Court for the\n1\n\n\x0cNorthern District of Illinois, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the\nUnited States Supreme Court.\nProfessional Association Positions:\nChair, Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Chicago Council of\nLawyers, (1998-2007).\nMember, Accreditation Committee of the Section of Legal Education and\nAdmissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association (1994-1996).\nChair, Skills Training Committee of the ABA Section of Legal Education\n(1989-1993).\nMember, Bar Admissions Committee of the ABA Section of Legal Education\n(1992-1998).\nMember, Committee on Professional Development of the American Association\nof Law Schools (AALS) (1988-1991).\nChair, AALS Section on Teaching Methods (1993); Teaching Methods Section\nExecutive Committee (1991-1994)\nMember, Executive Committee of the Section on Clinical Legal Education of the\nAALS (term 1988-1991).\nCo-chair of the Committee on the Future of the In-House Clinic of the Section on\nClinical Legal Education of the AALS, 1986-1988.\nMember of three AALS workshop planning committees.\nPublications:\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Case Against Collaborative Learning in the First Year Legal Research, Writing and\nAnalysis Course,\xe2\x80\x9d Perspectives, Vol. 13, Issue 3 (2005)(approximately 18 pages).\n\xe2\x80\x9cA Legal Services-Law School Clinic Collaborative Program For The Representation\nOf Clients And the Education Of Law Students,\xe2\x80\x9d Management Information Exchange\nJournal, Vol. XIV, No. 1, Spring, 2000. (47-50). solicited\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Governmental Maintenance of the Privileges of Legal Academia: A Case Study in\nClassic Rent-Seeking and A Challenge to our Democratic Values,\xe2\x80\x9d 15 St. John\xe2\x80\x99s J. Legal\nCommentary 269 (2001).\n2\n\n\x0c"Why and How the Practicing Bar Must Rescue American Legal Education from the\nMisguided Priorities of American Legal Academia," 64 Tenn. L. R. 1135 (1997).\n"The Regulation of Legal Education and the Potential for Implementing the MacCrate\nReport\'s Recommendations for Curricular Reform," 1 Clinical L. R. 1201 (1994).\n"The Case Against Legal Scholarship, Or If the Profession Must Publish, Must the\nProfession Perish?" 39 J. Legal Educ. 343 (1989).\n"Suing to Make Schools Effective, or How to Make a Bad Situation Worse: A Response\nto Ratner," 63 Texas L.R.889 (1985).\nBook review of Corporal Punishment in American Education: Readings in\nHistory, Practice and Alternatives, reviewed in 88 American Journal of Education 529 (1980).\n"Balancing Costs in Constitutional Construction: The Burger Court\'s Expansive\nNew Approach," 17 American Criminal L.R. 160 (1979).\n"A Common Law Remedy for the Educational Harms Caused by Incompetent or\nCareless Teaching," 73 Northwestern Univ. Law Rev., 641 (1978).\nBook review of The Courts and Education: The Seventy-Seventh Yearbook of the\nNational Society for the Study of Education, Part I, reviewed in 87 School Review 82 (1978).\n"State Regulation of Nonpublic Schools: The Legal Framework," in D. Erickson\n(ed.), Public Controls for Nonpublic Schools (U. Chicago, 1969).\nPresentations:\nSpeaker, Central States Law Schools Association Meeting, St. Louis, Mo.\nOctober, 1999 on \xe2\x80\x9cThe Governmental Maintenance of the Privileges of Legal Academia: a Case\nStudy in Classic Rent-seeking and a Challenge to our Democratic Ideology.\xe2\x80\x9d\nSpeaker, Symposium on clinical education and the legal profession, University of\nTennessee College of Law, October, 1997.\nDiscussion leader at faculty retreat at Ohio State University School of Law, April,\n1992, on innovations in law teaching.\nFaculty colloquium at Washington and Lee University, September, 1991 on\nexperimental, normative legal scholarship.\nPresentations at ABA training programs for site inspection team leaders and law\n3\n\n\x0cschool administrators on the inspection of law schools\' professional skills programs, 1989, 1991\nand 1995.\nPresentations at Midwest Clinical Teachers Conferences on the future of clinical\nscholarship (1991), curriculum reform and the MacCrate Task Force Report (1993) and the risks\nand rewards of cause litigation (2009).\nPresentation at Executive Committee Program during the AALS annual meeting\nin 1989 on "The Case Against Legal Scholarship."\nSome Significant Legal Clinic Cases:\nCarey v. Piphus, 435 U.S. 247 (1978)(wrote brief and argued)\nScott v. Illinois, 440 U.S. 367 (1979)(wrote brief and argued)\nFinley v. Murray, 456 US 604 (1982)(wrote brief and argued)\nHughes v. Rowe, 449 U.S. 5 (1980)(decided on basis of my petition for certiorari)\nCorey H. v. Board of Ed. Of City of Chicago, 995 F.Supp. 900 (N.D. Ill. 1998).\nDonnell C. v. Illinois State Board of Education, 829 F. Supp. 1016 (N.D. Ill. 1993)\nIn re Pagano, 154 Ill.2d 174 (1992)\nSuppressed v. Suppressed, 206 Ill. App.3d 918 (1st Dist. 1990)\nConsultations and Inspections:\nConsultant on clinical programs and/or clinical faculty promotion at Indiana University\nSchool of Law-Indianapolis (1994); Yale Law School (1992); University of Pittsburgh School of\nLaw (1988), Vanderbilt School of Law (1999) and University of Michigan School of Law (2000).\nMember of 20 ABA and/or AALS law school site inspection teams since 1988, most\nrecently Washington University School of Law (Oct. 2012) and Columbia Law School (Oct.\n2010).\nAwards\nWilliam Pincus Award by the Clinical Section of the American Association of Law Schools in\nJanuary, 2008 for law teacher who has \xe2\x80\x9cdemonstrated excellence in service, scholarship, program\ndesign and implementation and other activities beneficial to clinical education or to the\n4\n\n\x0cadvancement of justice.\xe2\x80\x9d\nDistinguished public service Award by the Public Interest Law Initiative, (PILI), December, 1997\n\n5'