Joyce E. McConnell
William J. Maier, Jr. Dean
& Thomas R. Goodwin Professor of Law
Education
B.A., The Evergreen State College, 1979
J.D. Antioch School of Law, 1982
LL.M. Georgetown University Law Center, 1990
Biography
Dean McConnell joined the West Virginia University College of Law faculty in 1995. She is previously served two terms as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. She teaches primarily in the area of property law, specifically first-year property, natural resources, and land-use planning. She also teaches gender and law and skills classes, such as interviewing, counseling and negotiating. Dean McConnell is a nationally recognized scholar on domestic violence and her article, Beyond Metaphor: Battered Women, Involuntary Servitude and the Thirteenth Amendment, is excerpted in DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND THE LAW: THEORY AND PRACTICE, a textbook on gender and domestic violence. more...
Publications
- “Securing the Care of Children in Diverse Families: Building on Trends in Guardianship Reform,” 10 Yale J. L.& Feminism (1997)
- Chapter 8: Reproductive Health, Women, and the Law, The Physician’s Perspective on Medical Law, Vol. I, coauthor Mark Gibson, edited by Howard H. Kaufman, M.D. and Jeff Lewin, J.D., American Association of Neurological Surgeons (1997)
- Chapter 12C: Sexual Assault, The Physician’s Perspective on Medical Law, Vol. I, coauthor Mark Gibson, edited by Howard H. Kaufman, M.D. and Keff Lewin, J.D., American Association of Neurological Surgeons (1997)
- Chapter 5: For Women’s Health: Uncoupling Tort Reform from Health Care Reform, Man Made Medicine: Women’s Health, Public Policy and Reform, edited by Kary Moss, Duke University Press (1996)
- Bullet Editor, The Broder New York Tort Reporter: Case Summaries and Analysis, Shepard’s/McGraw-Hill (monthly publication 1989-1991)
Teaching/Administrative Experience
- Faculty, West Virginia University College of Law (1995-present)
- Visiting Professor, University of Maryland School of Law
- Associate Professor, City University of New York School of Law
- Teaching Fellow, Center for Applied Legal Studies, Georgetown University Law Center
Professional Background
- Attorney-Advisor, Chief Judge and Division of Judges, National Labor Relations Board
- Attorney-Advisor, Chief Judge and Division of Judges, U.S. Department of Labor
- Member of Executive Committee of the Section on Women in Legal Education of the American Association of Law Schools
- Vice President of the West Virginia Land Trust.
