Nadine Baum Distinguished Professor of Law
B.A., 1986, University of Virginia
J.D., 1989, Northwestern University
Professor Beiner joined the law school in 1994. Before entering teaching, she was an associate in the San Francisco law firm of Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin. Her main practice area was general civil litigation, with an emphasis on employment discrimination, antitrust and environmental litigation. Prior to practicing law, she was a law clerk to the Honorable John F. Grady, United States District judge for the Northern District of Illinois, located in Chicago. She is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law, where she was named to the Order of the Coif and was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology. Professor Beiner researches and writes in the areas of employment discrimination law as well as the interaction between civil procedure and civil rights law. She has visited on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Her courses include Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Gender and the Law, Sexual Harassment, Federal Jurisdiction and Employment Discrimination. Professor Beiner is the mother of three children.
Professor Beiner's publications include:
Publications
Not All Lawyers are Equal: Difficulties that Plague Women and Women of Color, 53 Syracuse L. Rev. 317 (2008).
Comforting Insights into What Should Be Obvious (but may not necessarily be so), Review of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women by Christine B. Whelan, 19 Yale J. L. & Feminism 533 (2008).
Insights into the Woes of a Profession, Review of How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds by Jean Stefancic & Richard Delgado, 20 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 101 (2007).
Diversity on the Bench and the Quest for Justice for All, 33 Ohio N. L. Rev. 481 (2007).
Sexy Dressing Revisited: Does Target Dress Play a Part in Sexual Harassment Cases?, 14 Duke J. L. & Gender Pol’y 125 (2007).
When an Individual Finds Herself to be the Victim of Sex Discrimination, in Sex Discrimination In the Workplace 19 (Faye J. Crosby, Margaret S. Stockdale & S. Ann Ropp, eds. 2007)(co-authored with Maureen O’Connor).
Take What You Can, Give Nothing Back: Judicial Estoppel, Employment Discrimination, Bankruptcy, and Piracy in the Courts, 60 Miami L. Rev. 1 (2005) (co-authored with Robert Chapman).
Female Judging, 36 U. Toledo L. Rev. 821 (2005).
How the Contentious Nature of Federal Judicial Appointments Affects Diversity on the Bench, 39 U. Rich. L. Rev. 849 (2005).
Gender Myths v. Working Realities: Using Social Science to Reformulate Sexual Harassment Law (NYU Press 2005).
The Elusive (But Worthwhile) Quest for a Diverse Bench in the New Millennium, 36 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 597 (2003).
Let the Jury Decide: The Gap Between What Judges and Reasonable People Believe is Sexually Harassing, 75 S. Cal. L. Rev. 791 (2002).
Using Evidence of Women’s Stories in Sexual Harassment Cases, 24 UALR L. Rev. 117 (2001).
Introduction: The Impact of Science on Legal Decisions: What Can Social Science Tell the Courts and Lawyers?, 24 UALR L. Rev. 3 (2001).
Sex, Science and Social Knowledge: The Implications of Social Science Research on Imputing Liability to Employers for Sexual Harassment, 7 Wm. & Mary J. Women L. 273 (2001).
The Misuse of Summary Judgment in Hostile Environment Cases, 34 Wake Forest L. Rev. 71 (1999).
What Diversity on the Bench Could Mean for Justice, 6 Mich. J. Gen. & L. 113 (1999).
Feminist Legal Arguments and Sears: A Case Study, in Arguments in a Time of Change: Definitions, frameworks, and Critiques (James F. Klumpp, ed., 1998).
An Overview of the Arkansas Civil Rights Act of 1993, 50 Ark. L. Rev. 165 (1997).
Religious Harassment in the Workplace, 19 UALR L.J. 577 (1997)(with John M. A. DiPippa).
Do Reindeer Games Count as “Terms, Conditions, or Privileges of Employment” under Title VII? 37 B.C.L. Rev. 643 (1996).
Comment, Due Process For All? Due Process, The Eighth Amendment and Nazi War Criminals, 80 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 293 (1989).
E-mail: tmbeiner@ualr.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Revised: 4/14/09