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faculty
Justine Dunlap
Professor
Law School / Faculty
Contact
508-985-1158
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UMass School of Law 226
Education
| Case Western Reserve University | JD |
| Ohio State University | BA |
Teaching
- Civil Procedure
- Domestic Violence Law
- Field Placement
- Family Law Practice
Teaching
Courses
The Academic Skills Lab is a non-credit bearing, weekly course for first year law students. Participation is mandatory during the fall semester when instruction focuses on a variety of fundamental legal skills such as law school study skills, case reading and briefing, legal analysis, and law school examination preparation. In the spring semester, the program's focus is remedial. First year students are referred to weekly workshop sessions designed to improve law school exam performance
The Academic Skills Lab is a non-credit bearing, weekly course for first year law students. Participation is mandatory during the fall semester when instruction focuses on a variety of fundamental legal skills such as law school study skills, case reading and briefing, legal analysis, and law school examination preparation. In the spring semester, the program's focus is remedial. First year students are referred to weekly workshop sessions designed to improve law school exam performance
Introduction to the procedural rules governing non-criminal disputes, with focus on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, including jurisdiction, service of process, venue, parties, pleading and discovery, the right to jury trial, the trial process, appellate review, and res judicata.
Introduction to the procedural rules governing non-criminal disputes, with focus on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, including jurisdiction, service of process, venue, parties, pleading and discovery, the right to jury trial, the trial process, appellate review, and res judicata.
The course provides individual students with the opportunity to complete an independent legal research and writing project under the supervision of a full- time faculty member with expertise in the area studied. Permission of Full-Time Professor; Permission of Associate Dean required for second I.L.R. Of the 90 credits required for graduation, students are required to earn at least 65 in courses that meet in regularly scheduled class sessions. This course does not count toward the 65 credit requirement.
Students will take a typical family law case and develop it through pleadings, discovery, motions practice and, potentially, settlement. Acting in the role as counsel for the husband, wife, or child, students will establish the theory of case; determine strategy, and interview and counsel clients. Students will also develop an understanding of other actors in family law cases, including guardians' ad litem and custody evaluators.
Professional background
Professor Dunlap taught at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, American University Law School, and the University of Baltimore Law School.
She began her legal career at the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia. She then worked at the D.C. Superior Court, in Washington, D.C., as staff attorney and Director of the Counsel for Child Abuse and Neglect.
Professor Dunlap is a member of the Massachusetts, District of Columbia, Maryland, and Arkansas bars. She also serves as the Faculty Advisor for the Legal Association for Women at UMass Law.
Professor Dunlap's publications have focused on domestic violence and juvenile law, mental health law, and law school teaching. Her current scholarship interests focus on the use of apology in the law, including apology statutes, their goals, and outcomes.
Publications
Law review articles
Soft Misogyny: The Subtle Perversion of Domestic Violence “Reform,” 46 Seton Hall Law Review 775 (2016)
A Glossary of Experiential Education in Law Schools, 7 Elon Law Review 12 (2015) (co-author) (Symposium Issue)
Intimate Terrorism and Technology: There’s an App for That, 7 U. Mass L. Rev. 10 (2012) (lead article)
A contribution, "A Humanizing Classroom Exercise," to Techniques for Teaching Law 2 (2011): I’d Just as Soon Flunk You as Look at You? The Evolution to Humanizing in a Large Classroom, 47 Washburn L.J. 101 (2008), which was selected as the April 2011 article of the month by the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning
A Review of What’s Wrong with Children’s Rights: Still a ‘Slogan in Search of a Definition’, 11 U.C. Davis J. of Juv. L. & Pol. 181 (2007)
Judging Nicholson: An Assessment of Nicholson v. Scoppetta, 82 Denv. U. L. Rev. 671 (2005)
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child: The Error of Pursuing Battered Mothers for Failure to Protect, 50 Loy. L. Rev. 565 (2004)
Reflection-in-Action: Lessons Learned from New Clinicians, 11 Clinical L. Rev. 49 (2004) (with Peter Joy)
The Pitiless Double Abuse of Battered Mothers, 11 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 523 (2003)
Mental Health Advance Directives: Having One’s Say?, 89 Ky L.J. 327 (2001)
I Don’t Want to Play God: A Response to Professor Tremblay, 67 Fordham L. Rev. 601 (1999)
What’s Competence Got to Do With It: The Right Not to Be Acquitted by Reason of Insanity, 50 Okla. L. Rev. 495 (1997)
Books and other writings
Skill & Values Series: Family Law, Carolina Acad Press, ISBN 978-1-63282-096-9; 2018
Doctrine and Practice and Skills, Oh My: A First-Year Curricular Experiment, Vol. 18 No.1, Law Teacher 12 (Fall 2011)
Practice Manual for Child Abuse and Neglect Cases in the District of Columbia One of three co-authors for the first edition in March 1988; contributing author for 2nd Ed. (1996) & 3rd Ed. (2008)
District of Columbia Practice Manual, Child Abuse and Neglect Chapter, 3rd Ed. (1994) (contributing author)