Professor Barbara Glesner Fines
University of Missouri
- Kansas City School
(816) 235-2380 (phone)
(816) 235-5276 (fax)
glesner@glesner-fines.net
EDUCATION
LL.M. 1986 Yale University Law School, New
Haven, Connecticut
Senior Editor, Yale Journal of International
Law
Research Assistant to Professors Boris Bittker &
W. Michael Reisman
J.D. (cum laude)
1983 University of Wisconsin - Madison
School of Law
Assistant Managing Editor, Wisconsin Law
Review; Member, National Moot Court Team
Teaching Fellow - Legal Research & Writing Program
B. Ph. 1980 Grand Valley State University (
Phi Kappa Phi honorary, Selected as
Distinguished Alumnus 1998
TEACHING
POSITIONS
University of Missouri -Kansas City School of
Law 1986 - Present
Professor of Law
Current Courses Taught:
Family
Law, Professional
Responsibility, Seminar
in Family Violence, Ethical
Issues in the Representation of Families, Poverty
Law, Solo & Small Firm Practice
Past Courses Taught:
Civil Procedure, Remedies, Jurisprudence, Lawyering
Skills, Property, Federal Income Tax, Federal Tax Fraud & Procedure,
Federal Jurisdiction, Seminar in Great Lawyers, Co-director Academic
Support Program
Clinical Courses:
Child
& Family Services Clinic
Family Court
Clerkship
Legal
Aid Externship
Guardian
ad Litem Workshop
University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign
College of Law, Spring 2003
Visiting Professor of Law
Professional Responsibility, Civil Procedure
University of Iowa College of Law Summers
1992, 1994
Visiting Professor of Law
Professional Responsibility, Lawyering Skills, Law Practice
Management
University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Law
Summer 1992
Visiting Professor of Law
Civil Procedure II
University of Oklahoma Law Center,
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Civil Procedure I & II, Agency &
Partnership
Council for Legal Educational
Opportunity Summer Institute
Pre-law program introducing legal reasoning and writing,
Instructor, 1985, 1998
Institute Director 1999
University of Cincinnati College of Law,
Cincinnati, Ohio 1983-84
Visiting Instructor of Law,
Legal Writing & Appellate Advocacy
ADDITIONAL LEGAL
EXPERIENCE
Faculty
Co-director: Family Law Clinical Programs 2001 –
Established and co-direct clinical programs
in family law, including the Child & Family Services Clinic and the Family
Court Clerkship. Wrote grant
applications, hired and supervise clinical faculty, oversee curriculum
development.
Faculty
Supervisor: Clemency Project 2000 -
Supervised law students in preparing clemency petitions on behalf of women
incarcerated for the murder of their batterers.
Faculty
Supervisor : Legal Aid Clinic 1993 –
Trained students and provided academic
supervision in extern placements at Legal Aid of Western Missouri
Director: Mariel Assistance
Project 1991-93
Providing Pro Bono legal representation in immigration matters for cuban detainees at the United States Penitentiary in
Judicial Clerk, The Honorable David Russell
Michael, Best
& Friedrich, Madison Wisconsin 1982-83
Litigation assistant and law clerk
Lawton &
Cates,
Law Clerk
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK CHAPTERS
& ESSAYS:
Providing Legal Services to Survivors of Domestic Violence:
Comparing Approaches in the
Teaching
Family Law in Friedland
& Hess, Teaching the
Remittitur and Additur, Damages Deskbook (Mo. Bar 2001)
Landlord
Liability for Crime, Commercial
Leasing (
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Fundamental
Principles and Challenges of Humanizing Legal Education, Forthcoming Washburn
Law Review (2007)
Caring Too
Little, Caring Too Much: Competence and the Family Law Attorney, 75 UMKC L Rev
965 (2007)(with Cathy Madsen)
Almost Pro
Bono: Appointed Attorney Representation in Family Court, 72 UMKC L Rev 337 (2003).
The Impact of Expectations on Teaching
and Learning Law, 38 Gonzaga L. Rev. 89 (2002/03).
From
Representing "Clients" to Serving "Recipients":
Transforming the Role of the IV-D Child Support Enforcement Attorney, 67 Fordham L. Rev. 2155 (1999).
Competition and the Curve, 65 UMKC Law Review 879 (Summer 1997).
Post-Conference
Reflection: Looking Ahead at Lawyer Liability to Non-Clients, South Texas Law Review
37
Joinder of Tort Claims in Divorce
Actions,
12 Journal of the Academy of Matrimonial
Lawyers 285 (Winter 1994).
Election of
Remedies in
Landlords as
Cops: Tort, Nuisance & Forfeiture Standards Imposing Liability on Landlords
for Crime on the Premises, 42 Case
The Ethics of
Emergency Lawyering, 5
Fear and
Loathing in the
OTHER
PUBLICATIONS:
See also listing
of on-line publications
Annotated
Bibliography: Elder Law, 1995-2000, 16 Journal of the Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
593 (2000).
Unethical
Honesty?
Business Law Today (May 1997).
The Same Old
Alternative: Ending It: Dispute Resolution in
PUBLISHED
TEACHING MATERIALS:
Dispute
Resolution Problems
The Problem with Paint,
Linda Lender v. Bobby Borrower, (Willamette University Center for
Dispute Resolution 1997).
Minerals and Memories in Salsich & Johnson, Cases & Materials in Property, Teachers
Guide (1990).
Lesson Guide: Triplett v. Beuckman in Shoben & Tabb, Remedies: Cases and Problems,
Teachers Guide (2d ed. 1996).
Computer Assisted Instruction Programs:
- Interpreting
the Language of Conveyances
(1996)
- Sources
of Law Regulating the Practice of Law (1999)
- Admission
to Practice (2000)
- Bases
for Attorney Discipline (2000)
- Choosing
and Withdrawing from Representation (2001)
- Fees
(2002)
- Client
or Not? (2002)
- Equitable
Remedies - An Overview (2003)
- Characterizing
Remedies (2003)
- History
of Equity (2003)
- The
Policy Debate over Attorney's Fees Rules (2004)
- Tracing
(2004)
- Election
of Remedies Doctrines (2004)
- Non-Economic
Damages: Proof and Argument (2004)
- Recovery of Attorneys Fees
(2004)
GRANTS &
AWARDS
Tiera Farrow Faculty Award (2005)
UMKC Diversity
Curriculum Infusion Program Fellowship (2002-03)
UMKC Elmer F.
Pierson Teaching Award (2001)
American Bar
Association, Council on Legal Education
Distinguished
Alumnus,
Computer-Assisted
Instruction program awarded first-place in the Trautman
Competition for Authorship of Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (1996)
Gonzaga University Institute for
Law Teaching, Teaching Grant to research
uses of peer teachers in law schools (1993 With Julie Cheslik)
Missouri IOLTA
Foundation Grant to establish student pro bono clerk project (1991)
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS & DIRECTORSHIPS
President: Center
for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction
Board of Advisors: Institute for Law School Teaching
Past Chair, AALS Section on Academic Support
Member of Executive Committee, AALS Section on Family and Juvenile Law
American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility (ABA)
Association of Family & Conciliation Courts
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