Deborah L. Rhode
Stanford Law School
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305
(650) 723-0319
Personal
Married: Husband, Ralph C. Cavanagh, Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco.
Education
Yale University, B.A. in Political Science, Summa Cum Laude, 1974
§ Phi Beta Kappa
§ President, Yale Varsity Debate Association, 197374
§ Member, Yale Varsity Tennis Team, 197073
Yale Law School, J.D., 1977
§ Editor, Yale Law Journal, 197677
§ Director, Moot Court Board, 197677
§ Peres Prize (awarded by faculty) and Egger Prize (awarded by student editors) for the Outstanding Student Contribution to the Yale Law Journal
Employment
Stanford Law School, Present
§ Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law
(Principal subjects: Professional responsibility, the legal profession, leadership, and
gender, law, and public policy)
§ Founding Director, Center on the Legal Profession
§ Director, Program on Social Entrepreneurship,
National Law Journal, Columnist, 1995-present.
Yale Law School , Visiting Professor of Law, September 2013-December 2013;
Columbia Law School, Visiting Professor of Law, September 2009-December 2009.
Stanford University, Founding Director, Center on Ethics, 2003-2008.
Harvard University, Visiting Fellow, Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, October 2003.
Fordham Law School, Bacon-Kilkenny Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, September 2001-December 2001.
Yale Law School and New York University Law School, Visiting Professor of Law, September 1999-December 1999.
United States House of Representatives, Senior Investigative Counsel, Minority Staff, Committee on the Judiciary, September 1998-December 1998.
New York University Law School, Visiting Professor of Law, September 1995-December 1995.
Columbia University Law School, and New York University Law School, Visiting Professor, September 1993-December 1993.
Stanford University, Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, September 1986-October 1990.
University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor's Distinguished Lecturer, Law School, February-March 1987.
Harvard Law School, Visiting Professor, 198485.
Stanford University, Associate Professor of Law, 197984.
Supreme Court of the United States, Law Clerk, Justice Thurgood Marshall, 197879.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Law Clerk, Hon. Murray I. Gurfein, 197778.
Yale University, Director, Debate and Public Speaking, 197677.
Selected Professional Organizations and Appointments
Legal Momentum, Vice Chair, Board of Directors, 2002-present.
(formerly NOW Legal Defense Fund).
Women’s Faculty Forum, Co-Chair, 2003-present.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member, 2009-present.
Stanford University, Chair, Panel on Gender Equity and Quality of Life, 2004-2010.
Stanford Law School, Chair, Committee on Pro Bono and Public Interest Law, 2003-2006.
American Bar Association, Chair, Commission on Women in the Profession, 2000-2002.
Equal Rights Advocates, Member, Board of Directors, 1997-2000.
Phi Beta Kappa, Visiting Scholar, 1999-2000.
Open Society Institute, Member, Legal Advisory Task Force, 1997-1999.
Association of American Law Schools, Member, Executive Committee, 1994-1999.
Association of American Law Schools, President, 1998.
Yale University, Member of Yale Corporation, governing body of Yale University, 198389.
National Council for Research on Women, Member, Board of Directors, 198691,
California State Bar, Co-Chair, Attorney-Client Commission, 1988-89.
American Bar Association, CoChair, Committee on Professional Responsibility, Section on Litigation, 198788.
American Association of Law Schools, Chair, Section on Professional Responsibility, 198586.
American Civil Liberties Union, Co-operating Attorney, 198286.
Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation, Member, Board of Directors, 198183.
Member of the Bar: California; District of Columbia.
Honors and Awards
Most Frequently Cited Scholar in Legal Ethics, Leiter rankings.
American Bar Foundation Distinguished Scholar Award, 2014
White House Champion of Change for a lifetime’s work on access to justice.
American Bar Association, Michael Franck Award, for contributions to the field of professional responsibility, 2006.
Association of American Law Schools, Section on Pro Bono and Public Service, First Annual Deborah L. Rhode Pro Bono Award, 2000.
American Bar Association, Pro Bono Publico Award, for efforts to expand public service opportunities in law schools, 1999.
American Bar Foundation, W. M. Keck Foundation Award for distinguished scholarship on legal ethics and professional responsibility, 1999.
National Women=s Political Caucus and Radcliffe College, Exceptional Merit Media Award (EMMA), for columns in the National Law Journal, 1997 and 1998.
Selected Books
Cheating: Ethics and Law in Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2017 forthcoming).
Women and Leadership (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Adultery: Infidelity and the Law (Harvard University Press, 2016)
The Trouble with Lawyers (Oxford University Press, 2015)
What Women Want: An Agenda for the Women’s Movement (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Lawyers as Leaders (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, and Commentary (with Katherine Bartlett and Joanna Grossman, Wolters Kluwer, 6th ed. 2013).
Legal Ethics (with David Luban and Scott Cummings, Foundation Press, 6th Ed. 2013).
Leadership: Law, Policy, and Management (with Amanda Packel, Wolters Kluwer, 2011).
The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Gender Law and Policy (with Katherine Bartlett, Wolters Kluwer, 2010).
Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change (with Barbara Kellerman, ed. Jossey-Bass, 2007).
Professional Responsibility and Regulation (with Geoffrey Hazard, Jr., Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2007).
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture (Stanford University Press, 2006).
Moral Leadership; The Theory and Practice of Power, Judgment, and Policy (Jossey Bass, 2006).
Legal Ethics: Law Stories (with David Luban, Foundation Press, 2006).
Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice: Public Service and the Profession (Stanford University Press, 2005).
Brown at Fifty: The Unfinished Legacy (American Bar Association, 2004) (ed. with Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.).
Access to Justice (Oxford University Press, 2004).
The Difference Difference Makes: Women and Leadership, editor (Stanford University Press, 2003).
Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine and Commentary, with Katharine T. Bartlett and Angela P. Harris (Aspen, 2002).
In the Interests of Justice (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Ethics in Practice, editor (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Professional Responsibility: Ethics by the Pervasive Method (Aspen, 2d ed., 1998).
Speaking of Sex (Harvard University Press, 1997).
Sex Discrimination and the Law, with Barbara Allen Babcock, Ann E. Freedman, Susan Deller Ross, Wendy Webster Williams, Rhonda Copelon, Nadine H. Taub (Little, Brown & Co., 1996).
The Politics of Pregnancy: Adolescent Sexuality and Public Policy, Editor, with Annette Lawson (Yale University Press, 1993).
The Legal Profession: Responsibility and Regulation, with Geoffrey Hazard (Foundation Press,
3rd ed., 1993).
Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference, Editor (Yale University Press, 1990).
Justice and Gender (Harvard University Press, 1989).
Selected Articles and Reports
“Rethinking Self-Regulation: Antitrust Perspectives on Bar Governance Activity,” with Benjamin H. Barton, 20 Chapman Law Review 267 (2017).
“Leadership in Law,” 69 Stanford Law Review 1603 (2017).
“Understanding Your Legal Options If You’ve Been Sexually Harassed,” with Joanna L. Grossman, Harvard Business Review, June 22, 2017.
“Access to Justice: Looking Back, Thinking Ahead,” with Scott Cummings, 30 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 485 (2017).
“Reproductive Justice, 13 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 29 (2017).
“Women at the Top: The Pipeline as Pipedream (with Barbara Kellerman), 21 About Campus (2017).
“Gender Stereotypes and Unconscious Bias,” in Handbook of Research on Gender and Leadership, edited by Susan R. Madsen (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017).
“How Unusual is the Roger Ailes Sexual Harassment Case?,” Harvard Business Review, August 210, 2016.
“Professional Integrity and Professional Regulation: Nonlawyer Practice and Nonlawyer Investment in Law Firms,” 39 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 111 (2016).
“Leadership Lessons,” 83 Tennessee Law Review 713 (2016).
“How to Regulate Legal Services to Promote Access, Innovation, and the Quality of Lawyering,” with Gillian K. Hadfield, 67 Hastings Law Journal 1191 (2016) (symposium).
“What We Know and Need to Know About the Delivery of Legal Services by Nonlawyers, 67 South Carolina Law Review 429 (2016).
“Rape on Campus and in the Military: An Agenda for Reform,” 23 University of California at Los Angeles Women’s Law Journal 1 (2016).
“Appearance as a Feminist Issue,” in Body Aesthetics , edited by Sherri Irvine (Oxford University Press, 2016), and in 69 Southern Methodist University Law Review 697 (2016).
”Johnson v. Transportation Agency,” in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court, edited by Kahtryn M. Stanchi, Linda L. Berger, and Bridget Crawford ( Cambridge University Press, 2016).
“Teaching Leadership,” in Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World, edited by Deborah Maranville, Lisa Radtke Bliss, Carolyn Wilkes Kaas and Antoinette Sedillo Lopez (Lexis Nexis, 2015).
“Obesity and Public Policy: A Roadmap for Reform,” 22 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 491(2015).
“Adultery: An Agenda for Legal Reform,” 11 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 179 (2015).
“Foreword: Diversity in the Legal Profession: A Comparative Perspective,” 83 Fordham Law Review 2241 (2015) (colloquium).
“Diversity in the Legal Profession: Perspectives from Managing Partners and General Counsel,” (with Lucy Buford Ricca) 83 Fordham Law Review 2483 (2015) (symposium).
“Watching the Muffins—The Temple Church Sermon,” 17 Legal Ethics 430 (2014).
“Diversity and Gender Equity in Legal Practice,” 82 University of Cincinnati Law Review 871 (2014).
“Access to Justice: A Roadmap for Reform,” 41 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1227 (2014).
“Diversity on Corporate Boards: How Much Difference Does Difference Make,” with Amanda K. Packel, 39 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 377 (2014).
“Protecting the Profession or the Public? Rethinking Unauthorized Practice Enforcement,” (with Lucy Buford Ricca) 82 Fordham Law Review 2587 (2014) (symposium).
“Revisiting MCLE: Is Compulsory Passive Learning Building Better Lawyers,” with Lucy Buford Ricca, 22(2) Professional Lawyer 2 (2014).
“Editorial,” with Reid Mortensen and Hilary Sommerlad, 16 Legal Ethics iii (2013).
“Reforming American Legal Education and Legal Practice: Rethinking Licensing Structures and the Role of Nonlawyers in Delivering and Financing Legal Services, 16 Legal Ethics 243 (2013).
“Access to Justice: An Agenda for Legal Education and Research,” 62 Journal of Legal Education 531 (2013) (symposium).
“Legal Education: Rethinking the Problem, Reimagining the Reforms,” 40 Pepperdine Law Review 437 (2013).
“Foreword: The Future of the Legal Profession,” 24(2) Stanford Law & Policy Review i (2013) (symposium).
“Women and the Path to Leadership,” 2012 Michigan State Law Review 1439 (2012).
“Thurgood Marshall and His Clerks” in In Chambers: Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices, edited by Todd C. Peppers and Artemus Ward (University of Virginia Press, 2012).
“Developing Leadership,” 52 Santa Clara Law Review 689 (2012) (symposium).
“Litigating Discrimination: Lessons from the Front Lines,” 20 Journal of Law and Policy 325 (2012).
“Legal Ethics: Prime Time and Real Time,” 1 Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law 113 (2012) (symposium).
“Foreword, 2011,” in Women in Law, authored by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (Quid Pro Books, 2012).
“Comparative Perspectives on Lawyer Regulation: An Agenda for Reform in the United States and Canada,” with Alice Woolley, 80 Fordham Law Review 2761 (2012) (symposium).
“From Platitudes to Priorities: Diversity and Gender Equity in Law Firms, 24 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 1041 (2011).
“Professional Regulation and Public Service: An Unfinished Agenda” in The Paradox of Professionalism: Lawyers and the Possibility of Justice, edited by Scott Cummings (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
“What Lawyers Lack: Leadership,” 9 University of St. Thomas Law Journal 471 (2011).
“Senior Lawyers Serving Public Interests: Pro Bono and Second-Stage Careers,” 21 Professional Lawyer 1 (2011).
“Personal Integrity and Professional Ethics,” in Reaffirming Legal Ethics: Taking Stock and New Ideas, edited by Kieran Tranter, Francesca Bartlett, Lillian Corbin, Reid Mortenson, and Michael Robertson (Routledge, 2010).
“Lawyers and Leadership,” 20 Professional Lawyer 1 (2010).
“Life in a University,” in The Woman Advocate, edited by Abbe F. Feltman and Evelyn R. Storch (American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, 2010).
“Lawyers as Leaders,” 2010 Michigan State Law Review 413 (2010).
“Managing Pro Bono: Doing Well By Doing Better,” with Scott Cummings, 78 Fordham Law Review 2357 (2010) (symposium).
“Invitation to Join the Newly Formed International Association of Legal Ethics,” 13(2) Legal Ethics ix (2010).
“Craig v. Boren, 429 U.S. 190 (1976),” in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, edited by David S. Tanenhaus (Gale Cengage Learning, 2009).
“Rethinking the Public in Lawyers’ Public Service: Pro Bono, Strategic Philanthropy, and the Bottom Line, 77 Fordham Law Review 1435 (2009) (symposium).
“The Injustice of Appearance,” 61 Stanford Law Review 1033 (2009).
“Lawyers as Citizens,” 50 William and Mary Law Review 1323 (2009).
“Ethics and Nonprofits,” with Amanda K. Packel, 7(3) Stanford Social Innovation Review 28 (2009).
“Whatever Happened to Access to Justice?,” 42 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 869 (2009) (symposium).
“Public Interest Litigation: Insights from Theory and Practice,” 36 Fordham Urban Law Journal 603 (2009).
“Aspirations to Equality Have Outpaced Achievements,” 17(1) Perspectives 11 (2008).
“Legal Ethics in Legal Education,” 16 Clinical Law Review 43 (2009).
“Public Interest Law: The Movement at Midlife,” 60 Stanford Law Review 2027 (2008).
“Ethics and Nonprofits,” with Amanda K. Packel, 7(3) Stanford Social Innovation Review 28 (2009).
“Whatever Happened to Access to Justice?,” 42 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 869 (2009) (symposium).
“Public Interest Litigation: Insights from Theory and Practice,” 36 Fordham Urban Law Journal 603 (2009).
“Aspirations to Equality Have Outpaced Achievements,” 17(1) Perspectives 11 (2008).
“Foreword: Personal Satisfaction in Professional Practice,” 58 Syracuse Law Review 217 (2008) (symposium).
“Access to Justice in the United States: Narrowing the Gap between Principle and Practice” in The State of Access: Success and Failure of Democracies to Create Equal Opportunities, edited by Jorrit de Jong and Gowher Rizvi (Brookings Institution Press, 2008).
“Politics and Pregnancy: Adolescent Mothers and Public Policy,” in The Reproductive Rights Reader: Law, Medicine, and the Construction of Motherhood, edited by Nancy Ehrenrelch (New York University Press, 2008).
“Environmental Values and Behaviors: Strategies to Encourage Public Support for Initiatives to Combat Global Warming,” with Lee Ross, 26 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 161 (2008).
“The Subtle Side of Sexism,” 16 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 613 (2007) (symposium).
“Social Research and Social Change: Meeting the Challenge of Gender Inequality and Sexual Abuse,” 30 Harvard Journal of Law and Gender 11 (2007) (symposium).