Biography

Judith Areen is the Paul Regis Dean Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She is currently on leave to serve as the Executive Director and CEO of the Association of American Law Schools, a nonprofit association of 178 law schools. For fifteen years (1989-2004) she was Executive Vice President for Law Affairs of Georgetown University and Dean of the Law Center. Professor Areen's areas of academic expertise include higher education law and family law. Her casebook on Higher Education and the Law was published by in 2009. The second edition was published in 2014. The sixth edition of Cases and Materials on Family Law (with Marc Spindelman & Philomila Tsoukala) was published in 2012. Her recent legal articles include Accreditation Reconsidered, 96 IOWA L. REV. 1471 (2012); Government as Educator: A New Understanding of First Amendment Protection of Academic Freedom and Governance, 97 GEO. L. J. 945 (2009), and Governing Board Accountability: Competition, Regulation, and Accreditation, 36 J. COL. & UNIV. LAW 691 (2010). A graduate of Cornell University (1966) and the Yale Law School (1969), she has worked in the private sector and in government at the local and federal levels. Professor Areen, who is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia, is also a member of the American Law Institute and a director of the Pro Bono Institute. She has served as President of the Association of American Law Schools (2006), on the Board of Trustees of Cornell University (1997-2001), and as a governor of the District of Columbia Bar (1979-1981).