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Philadelphia, PA
Posted:
September 29, 2012

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CHAPIN FORSYTHE CIMINO

DREXEL UNIVERSITY EARLE MACK SCHOOL OF LAW

3320

MARKET STREET

PHILADELPHIA, PA 19104

215-***-**** (OFFICE)

******.******@******.***

DREXEL UNIVERSITY EARLE MACK SCHOOL Philadelphia, PA

ACADEMICOF LAWJune, 2006 - Present

APPOINTMENTS

Associate Professor of Law

? Teach Contracts, Contract Theory, First

Amendment, and Elements of Law.

? Served on multiple committees, including

Curriculum (2009-Present; Chair 2009-2010),

Long-Range Planning (2006-2008),

Appointments (2006-2008), Self-Study (2007-

2008), Student Professional Development

(Chair,

2006-2007), Librarian Search

(Co-

Chair,

2005-2006).

? Faculty advisor to ACS Student Chapter;

student Philosophy Club.

Villanova, PA

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAWJanuary, 2010 - June, 2010

Adjunct Professor of Law

? Taught a large section of 130 first-year

students the basic Contracts course.

Assistant Professor of Legal Writing

May, 2004May, 2006

? Taught first-year Legal Analysis, Writing and

Oral Advocacy course. Received highest

ranking for excellence in teaching after first

semester.

Campus Citizenship and Associational Freedom:

PUBLICATIONS Forthcoming

An Aristotelian Approach to the Nondiscrimination

20 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rts. J.

Puzzle (applying a virtue jurisprudence lens to the

conflict between a public university?s First

Amendment right to control campus speech and

the student groups? First Amendment right to

expressive association).

Virtue and Contract Law (considering how aretaic

88 Oregon L. Rev. 703 (2009)

legal theory better captures parties? dual intents in

contract than current theoretical approaches).

71 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 279 (2009)

Private Law, Public Consequences, and Virtue

Jurisprudence (reviewing Virtue Jurisprudence,

Farrelly and Solum eds., 2008).

Considering Standing, Sincerity and

2006 BYU L. Rev. 71 (2006)

Antidiscrimination (analyzing the implicit

requirement of sincerity in the injury-in-fact test

of standing in reverse discrimination cases).

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Comment, Class-Based Preferences in Affirmative 64 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1289 (1997)

Action Programs After Miller v. Johnson: A Race-

Neutral Option or Subterfuge? (analyzing whether

the Court?s voting rights jurisprudence suggests

that class-based affirmative action preferences are

unconstitutional).

Subjectivity, Objectivity and Sincerity in Contract

ACADEMIC PROJECTS In Progress

(analyzing how courts evaluate evidence of

parties? intent in contract disputes).

Multiple Ends of Contract Law: A Convergence of

In Progress

Virtue Jurisprudence, Relational Theory, and

Marketing Literature.

Villanova University School of Law, Symposium on

PRESENTATIONS Villanova, PA

Moral Foundations of Private Law: Presenting

Forthcoming March, 2012

Multiple Ends of Contract Law: A Convergence of

Virtue Jurisprudence, Relational Theory and

Marketing Literature (by invitation).

University of Pittsburgh Law School, Faculty

Pittsburgh, PA

Colloquia Series: Presenting Campus Citizenship

September, 2011

and Associational Freedom (by invitation).

Annual Meeting of the Association of Law, Culture

Las Vegas, NV

and Humanities: Presented work-in-progress

March, 2011

entitled The First Amendment Goes to College.

Annual Meeting of the Association of Law, Culture

Providence, RI

and Humanities: presented work-in-progress on

March, 2010

panel entitled Law and Culture: Self, Community,

and the State.

Las Vegas, NV

Spring Contracts Conference, UNLV Law School:

February, 2010

Presented work on virtue and contract on panel

entitled Morality and Contract.

First Amendment Forum, Drexel University Earle

Philadelphia, PA

Mack School of Law: panelist discussing trends in

January, 2009

First Amendment jurisprudence.

Annual Meeting of the Association of Law, Culture

Washington, DC

and Humanities: presented work-in-progress

March, 2007

examining the role of sincerity in contract law and

theory.

The Law School, The University of Chicago Legal

Chicago, IL

Scholarship Workshop, Taking Aim at the

November, 2005

Tempting Targets? : presented paper on sincerity

and standing in reverse discrimination cases.

Central States Region Legal Writing

Indianapolis, IN

Conference, From Gut to Numbers: Strategies

September, 2005

for Grading First Year Papers.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, The Law Chicago, IL

EDUCATION

School

June, 1997

Juris Doctor

? Law Review, Staff Member

? Graduated with Honors

DENISON UNIVERSITY

Granville, OH

Bachelor of Arts

May, 1992

? Magna Cum Laude, French Area Studies and

History Double Major

? Honors Thesis, La Litterature Engagee: La

Pensee Politique Francaise de L Entre Guerre

? Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Vice

President

? Sweet Briar College, Junior Year Abroad

Program (Paris, France) (1990-1991)

? French Honor Society

HONORABLE EDMUND V. LUDWIG Philadelphia, PA

JUDICIAL CLERKSHIPS

United States District Court, Eastern District of September, 1997 September, 1998

Pennsylvania

HONORABLE D. BROOKS SMITH Pittsburgh, PA

Summer 1995

Internship, United States District Court, Western

District of Pennsylvania (now Third Circuit Judge)

PEPPER HAMILTON, LLP Philadelphia, PA

OTHER PROFESSIONAL

Associate, Commercial Litigation October, 1998 October, 2000;

EXPERIENCE

February, 2003May, 2004

? Experience in antitrust, higher education,

contract, white collar defense, professional

responsibility, and first amendment matters.

CRAVATH SWAINE & MOORE New York, NY

Summer Associate, Litigation Summers 1996 & 1997

? Researched voting rights and equal protection

issues and drafted amicus curiae brief filed in

the United States Supreme Court.

? Participated in intensive discovery defending

hostile takeover bid of an international

corporation.

? Offer extende d to join firm full -time.

AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY2003 - Present

ACTIVITIES

PHILADELPHIA LAWYER CHAPTER

Founding Member

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN, INC. Philadelphia, PA

Member, Board of Directors, September, 2004 - September, 2006

Fundraising Committee

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WIDENER UNIVERSITY Chester, PA

Adjunct Instructor, Media Law and Ethics, January, 2001 December, 2002

Communications/Government and Politics Department

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA INN OF COURT Philadelphia, PA

AssociateSeptember, 2000April, 2002

Admitted to Practice in New York (inactive) and New York (1998)

BARS

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (1999

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