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Phoebe A. Haddon
Dean and Professor of Law
Phone: (410) 706-2041
Fax: (410) 706-4045
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Office: 260
BA, 1972, Smith College
JD cum laude, 1977, Duquesne University School of Law
LLM, 1985, Yale Law School
Appointed in 2009 as the ninth Dean in the University of Maryland School of Law’s 185-year history, Phoebe A. Haddon, JD, LLM, is a widely respected, national leader in legal education and an expert in jury participation, the courts and diversity.
Dean Haddon joined Maryland Law after more than 25 years as a distinguished faculty member at the Temple University Beasley School of Law. An accomplished scholar on constitutional law and tort law, Dean Haddon is the co-author of two casebooks in those fields and has written numerous scholarly articles on equal protection, jury participation, academic freedom, and diversity.
Dean Haddon has provided leadership to numerous organizations dedicated to improving American legal education. She serves on the Council of the American Bar Association Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, the official accrediting body of American law schools. She has served as co-president of the board of governors and member of the executive committee of the Society of American Law Teachers, member of the executive committee of The Association of American Law Schools, and trustee of the Law School Admissions Council.
Actively engaged in supporting the work of the Pennsylvania bench and bar, Dean Haddon served as a member of the Gender Commission of the Third Circuit Task Force on Equal Treatment in the Courts and as a member of the Race Subcommittee of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice System. She was a member of the City of Philadelphia Board of Ethics, and worked on bias and diversity-related issues in the Philadelphia Bar Association. Dean Haddon is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
Dean Haddon earned an LLM from Yale Law School and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Duquesne University School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Duquesne Law Review. She received a bachelor's degree from Smith College and served as Vice-Chair of the Smith College Board of Trustees until her appointment as dean. She served as a law clerk for The Hon. Joseph F. Weis, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and practiced at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., before joining the faculty at Temple law school in 1981, where she taught courses on constitutional law, torts, products liability, and race and ethnicity. While on leave from Temple, she served as Deputy Executive Director of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia and President of the Low-Income Housing Development Subsidiary and the Philadelphia Development Mortgage Assistance Corporation (1987-89).
Books
Tort Law: Cases, Perspectives and Problems (3d ed. 2002; 4th ed., 2007) (with others).
First Amendment Law: Cases, Comparative Perspectives, and Dialogues (2003) (with others).
Constitutional Law: Cases, History and Dialogues (1996; 2d ed., 2000) (with others).
Constitutional Law Anthology (1992; 2d ed., 1997) (with others).
Articles
Misuse and Abuse of the LSAT: Making the Case for Alternative Evaluative Efforts and a Redefinition of Merit, 80 St. John's Law Review 41 (2006) (with D. Post)
An Independent Judiciary: The Life and Writings of Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., 78 Temple Law Review 331 (2005).
Does Grutter Offer Courts an Opportunity to Consider Race in Jury Selection and Decisions Related to Promoting Fairness in the Deliberative Process?, 13 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 547 (2005).
Executive Summary of the Report on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice System, in Litigating Medical Malpractice Claims (2005).
Protection of Human Subjects in Clinical Trials and Research: Selected Issues, in Litigating Medical Malpractice Claims (2005).
Addressing Race and Gender Bias, in Litigating Medical Malpractice Claims (2004).
A Dinamica da Acão Afirmativa nos Estados Unidos, in Acão Afirmativa na PUC: Reflexão sobre Experiencias Concretas [Affirmative Action in the University: Thoughts on Actual Experiences] (2004).
Products Liability: U.S. Experiences, International Composium on Sino-American Form of Chinese Torts, in Qinquan Xingweifa Yanju [Treatise on Torts Law] (2004).
Coalescing with SALT: A Taste for Inclusion, 11 Southern California Review of Law & Women’s Studies 321 (2002).
Some Ethical Considerations of Emerging Forms of Practice: Multidisciplinary Practice and Multijurisdictional Practice, in Litigating Medical Malpractice Claims (2002).
Bias Scenarios, in Litigating Medical Malpractice Claims (2001) (with J. Berkman).
Multidisciplinary Practice: Recent Developments and Effects of the Continuing Debate, in Litigating Medical Malpractice Claims (2001).
The Litigator's Dilemma: "Should I Confront or Ignore Concerns about Racism, Sexism or Other Isms in my Case?", in Litigating Medical Malpractice Claims (2001).
The MDP Controversy: What Legal Educators Should Know, 50 Journal of Legal Education 504 (2000).
All the Difference in the World: Listening and Hearing the Voices of Women, 8 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 377 (1999).
Redefining our Roles in the Battle for Inclusion of People of Color in Legal Education, 31 New England Law Review 709 (1997).
Education for a Public Calling in the Twenty-First Century, 69 Washington Law Review 573 (1994).
Rethinking the Jury, 3 William & Mary Bill of Rights Law Review 29 (1994).
An Essay on the Ninth Amendment: Interpretation for the New World Order, 2 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 93 (1992).
Academic Freedom and Governance: A Call for Increased Dialogue and Diversity, 66 Texas Law Review 1561 (1988).
Baby Doe Cases: Compromise and Moral Dilemma, 34 Emory L.J. 545 (1985).
Remedies and Damages for Violation of Constitutional Rights, 18 Duqesne Law Review 409 (1980) (with F. McClellan).
Note, Jersey Central Power & Light Co. v. Local 327, IBEW, 14 Duqusne Law Review 475 (1976).
Monographs
Final Report of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice System (Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2003) (with others).
