Patti AllevaRodney & Betty Webb Professor of Law & Patti Alleva is the Rodney & Betty Webb Professor of Law and Faculty Development Fellow for Teaching and Learning at the University of North Dakota School of Law. Professor Alleva graduated summa cum laude from Hofstra University with a B.A. in American History and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. degree from Hofstra Law School, where she was Articles Editor of the Hofstra Law Review. After graduation, she clerked for Chief Judge Clarkston S. Fisher of the U.S. District Court of New Jersey, and then practiced law in New York City at Proskauer Rose in the firm's Litigation Department for six years before coming to North Dakota in 1987. Professor Alleva now teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, Advanced Civil Litigation, and an innovative capstone course that she designed to explore professional identity and judgment called Professional Visions: Law, Literature, and the Role of Lawyers in the Social Order. She has also taught in Emory University School of Law's Trial Techniques Program. A two-time recipient of the University of North Dakota’s Lydia & Arthur Saiki Prize for Graduate or Professional Teaching Excellence (1989, 2006), Bush Teaching Scholar, and multiple winner of UND’s outstanding student organization advisor award, Professor Alleva has presented regionally and nationally on the scholarship of teaching and learning as well as legal education reform. She was also selected to present her work on literature and judicial decision-making as part of the University’s distinguished 2008-09 Faculty Lecture Series. Professor Alleva has been a featured presenter at the National Workshop for U.S. Magistrate Judges sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C.. She has also served as the Reporter for the Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group for the District of North Dakota, a group charged by Congress to improve the federal civil litigation process. Professor Alleva has also been a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Federal Courts and has published in the area of federal jurisdiction. She was a member of the North Dakota Supreme Court’s Commission on Gender Fairness in the Courts and is now a Master of the Bench in the local chapter of the American Inns of Court. She has also been selected a national member of The Order of Barristers. When practicing law in New York City, she served as secretary of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Council on Judicial Administration. Throughout the years, Professor Alleva has served the University of North Dakota on various committees and promoted interdisciplinary and cross-cultural dialogue. Examples include her work spearheading creation of the law school’s Northern Plains Indian Law Center, serving on the UND Presidential Advisory Council on Diversity, helping to improve the faculty advancement process campus-wide as a member of the Joint Provost/Senate Committee on Promotion and Tenure, serving on the Presidential Team on Faculty Roles and Rewards, coordinating the visit of psychologist Carol Gilligan as the law school’s Inaugural Distinguished-Scholar-in-Residence, serving on UND’s PEW Charitable Trusts Higher Education Roundtable (1993-94), and moderating a writer’s conference panel which included author Louise Erdrich. |
