Judith A. M. Scully
Professor of Law (1996)
Education
B.A., University of Chicago, 1983
J.D., George Washington University National Law Center, 1986
International Institute of Human Rights, Strausbourg, France
Publications
- Rotten Apple or Rotten Barrel: The Role of Civil Rights Lawyers in Ending The Culture of Police Violence (Submitted for Publication)
- Encyclopedia of the United States Supreme Court (2008) 2 Articles on Buck v. Bell and Eugenics.
- Laws Governing the Lives of Black People in the “Free State” of Illinois; Illinois Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Commission (2007-08)
- Seeing Color, Seeing Whiteness, Making Change: One Womans Journey in Teaching Race & American Law, 39 Univ. of Toledo L.R. 59 (2007)
- Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (2006) Articles on Blue Walls of Silence, Chain Gangs, Civilian Review Boards, DNA and Innocence, Electric Chair as Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
- Eliminating Racial Profiling of African Americans in the United States and in West Virginia: The quest for Racial Justice (w/Michael Bostick), 2 Africalogical Perspectives, 65 (Sept./Oct. 2005)
- Africalogical Perspectives: Historical Contemporary Analysis of Race and Africana Studies Vol 2 No. 1 (September/October 2005) – Special Guest Editor.
- Eugenics, Women of Color and Reproductive Health: The Saga Continues, 1 Africalogical Perspective, 167 (Jan./Feb. 2004)
- Book Chapter, Demonizing the Black Community: A Commentary on the United States War on Drugs and its Effect on Black America to be published in Policing the National Body: Sex, Race and Criminalization in the United States, March, 2002, by South End Press
- Maternal Mortality, Population Control and the War in Women’s Wombs: A Bioethical Analysis of Quinacrine Sterilization, Vol. 19, No. 2, Wisc. Int’l L.J. 103 (2001)
- Why Respectability Is Not Enough (a book review of Race, Crime and the Law by Randall Kennedy), Winter/Spring 2000, Criminal Justice Ethics (Vol. 19, No. 1)
- Book Review, _Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent by Eileen McDonagh, UCLA Women’s Law Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1, Fall/Winter 1997
- The Guild Practitioner: Special Edition on Reproductive Rights (Editor), 1994
Teaching Experience
- Professor of Law, West Virginia University College of Law (2002-Present)
- Associate Professor, West Virginia University College of Law (1996-2002)
- Political Science College Instructor, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois (Lincoln Park Campus)
(1990) - Women’s Health Educator, Juvenile Temporary Detention Center for Girls, Chicago, Illinois (1993-1996)
- Women’s Health Educator, Chicago Women’s Health Center, Chicago, Illinois (1990-1996)
Professional Background
- Private Practice (focusing on civil rights litigation and criminal defense)
- Associate, Schaefer, Rosenwein & Fleming (Trademark infringement, personal injury defense)
- Associate, Hartunian, Futterman & Howard (Class action litigation)
- Arbitrator, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois
- Administrative Law Judge, Cook County Commission on Human Rights, Illinois
- Deputy Director & Legal Counsel, City of Chicago
- Board of Ethics, Mayor Harold Washington
- Steering Committee Member, National Conference of Black Lawyers
- Member, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Steering Committee Member, Committee on Women, Population and the Environment
