CHRISTINE ALICE CORCOS
Associate Professor of Law
Louisiana State University Law Center
Director of the Law Library 1996-2000
Member, Women's and Gender Studies Faculty (since 1998)
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge LA 70803
Telephone: 225/578-8327
Fax: 225/578-5935
Email: ccorcos@lsu.edu
Education
| Teaching & Research Interests | Publications
Current Research & Works in Progress | Other Publications & Presentations
LSU Law Center Service | Professional Activities and Other Service | Frolics & Detours
Websites of Personal Interest
B.A. with High Honor, the Honors College, Michigan State University (1973)(History)
M.A., Michigan State University (1975)(History)
Post-graduate study, University of Michigan (History and Political Science)
A.M.L.S., University of Michigan (1979)
J.D. Case Western Reserve Law School (1990)
Honors and Awards
- Graduated with High Honor, the Honors College, Michigan State University
- Phi Beta Kappa (elected 1973)
- Phi Kappa Phi (elected 1973)
- AALL/West Publishing Scholarship 1989
Bar Admissions
Ohio (May 1990)
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Courses Taught at LSU
Media Law (Spring 1998, Fall 1998, Summer 2000)
Law and Computers (Spring 1999)Courses Taught at CWRU
- Advanced Legal Information Systems
- Contemporary International Legal Problems Seminar
- European Legal History Seminar
- International Organizations Seminar
- Introduction to U. S. Legal Research for Foreign Lawyers (with Katz)
- Law and the Internet, Continuing Legal Education Seminar presented April 8, 1995
- Research in Transnational Law
- Selected Problems in Environmental Law and Policy (with Durchslag, Morriss, and Wagner)
Research Interests
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Comparative Environmental Law and Policy
- European Legal History
- Human Rights Law
- International Organizations
- Law and the Internet
- Law and Film
- Law and Literature
- Legal Research and Writing (including Introduction to U. S. Legal Methods for Foreign Lawyers)
- U.S. Constitutional Law (First Amendment)
Books
From Litchfield to Laptops: A Comprehensive Bibliography of U.S. Legal Education From the Founding of the First Law School to 1989 (with Kathleen M. Carrick)(Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman & Sons, forthcoming).
An International Guide to Law and Literature Studies (Buffalo: William S. Hein Company, 2000). Two volumes.
La Politique du Logement aux Etats-Unis: Aspects Juridiques, Economiques et Sociologiques (1999)(with Levasseur, Grimes, Langlois, and Ward)
Electronic
A Tocqueville Bibliography. Bibliography of secondary works on Alexis de Tocqueville and his influence for the Center of Civil Law Studies, Louisiana State University Law Center. Regularly updated.
Other Electronic Publications
Websites Currently Updated
Buried on the Bayou: The Louisiana Mystery and Detective page
The Judge as Gatekeeper: Daubert and the Admissibility of Scientific Evidence
Law and the Humanities Website
Sisters in Law: Popular Culture Featuring Women Attorneys: Selected Resources for Research
What Else You Can Do With That Law Degree
Other Webpages (primarily bibliographies and pathfinders)
Date and Acquaintance Rape. Cited in Research Resources and Bibliographies
Internet Privacy and Freedom of the Press
Liability of the Public Defender for Malpractice
Raising Arizonans: Surrogacy Contracts, Motherhood and the Soos Case. Cited in SocioSite: Feminism and Women's Issues
Souls on Ice: Or, Honey, I Defrosted the Kids
Who Gets the Blue Dog? The Rodrigue Divorce Case
Women's Rights and Women's Issues in Law and Literature. Cited in SocioSite: Feminism and Women's Issues
Women's Rights and Women's Issues in Science Fiction and Film; also at http://www.law.indiana.edu/webinit/fcrc/bibliographies/corcos.html. Cited in Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia; SocioSite: Feminism and Women's Issues
Law Review Articles
Admiralty Law Bibliography, 31 J. Maritime L. & Comm 505 (2000).
The Child in International Law: A Pathfinder and Selected Bibliography, 23 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. 171 (1991)(solicited article). Excerpted in International Law Anthology (Anthony D'Amato, ed., Anderson Publishing Company, 1995), at 327-328.
Columbo Goes to Law School, Or, Some Thoughts on the Uses of Television in the Teaching of Law, 13 Loy. L.A. Ent. L.J. 499 (1993).
Double Take: A Second Look at Law, Science Fiction and Cloning. (with Corcos and Stockhoff), 59 La. L. Rev. 1041 (1999). Symposium issue.
EEC Law: A Practical Research Guide, 22 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. 195 (1990). Cited in Duke University Law Library Guides: European Union
Lawyers for Marianne: An Essay on the Nature of Discourse on the Entry of Frenchwomen into the Legal Profession, 12 Geo. St. U. L. Rev. 435 (1996)(solicited article). Symposium issue.
Madame Restell, for Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Female Reproductive Rights in the U.S. (Judith Baer ed.; Greenwood Press, in press).
Portia and Her Partners in Popular Culture: A Bibliography, 22 Legal Studies Forum 269 (January 1998)(solicited article).
Portia Goes to Parliament: Women and Their Admission to the English Legal Profession, 75 Denver University Law Review 307 (1998)(75th anniversary issue). Lead article.
Presuming Innocence: Alan J. Pakula and Scott Turow Take On the Great American Legal Fiction, 22 Okla C. U. L. Rev. 101 (1997)(solicited article). Symposium issue. To be reprinted in Screening Justice (Rennard Strickland ed.).
Sea TV: Admiralty Law on Television, 31 J. Maritime L. & Comm. 545 (2000).
Teaching a "Mega" Course: Adventures in Environmental Policy, Co-Teaching, and Group Grading, 47 J. Legal Educ. 224 (1997).
`Who Ya Gonna C(S)ite?' Ghostbusters and the Environmental Regulation Debate, 13 J. Land Use & Envt'l L. 231 (1998).
Essays in Books
The Council of Europe, in Proceedings of the American Association of Law Libraries International Organizations Institute at Harvard Law School, July 1993 (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Press, 1995).
The European Community: Research in Commercially Published Sources, in Proceedings of the American Association of Law Libraries International Organizations Institute at Harvard Law School, July 1993 (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Press, 1995).
Presuming Innocence: Alan J. Pakula and Scott Turow Take on the Great American Legal Fiction, in Screening Justice (Teree Foster and Rennard Strickland eds.; forthcoming).
Women Lawyers, in Prime Time Law 219 (Paul Joseph and Robert Jarvis, eds., Carolina Academic Press, 1998).
InterviewsInterviewed by Michael Smith for The Reveille, Forum Explores Law and the Arts
Interviewed by Michael Smith for The Reveille, "Women and the Law: Professor's Work Examines Cultural Biases"
Interviewed by Kristin Tillotson for article, Pop Stand: Women make strides in law; but not in la-la land, Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 26, 1997, at 1F.
Interviewed by Gil Smart, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, reporter, for article on obscene bumper stickers, November 20, 1999
Working Papers and Projects
Bibliography: Law and the Visual Arts, included in printed materials for The Artist as Self-Employed Person, CLE Program presented by the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Section of the Cleveland Bar Association and NOVA, October 23, 1993.
Computer Assisted Legal Instruction
Database of primary and secondary citations on Alexis de Tocqueville (registered with the National Center for Bibliography, Georgetown University)
CURRENT RESEARCH AND WORKS IN PROGRESS
Bans, The Boys, and Bluebeard's Wife: Balancing Rights Under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. To be submitted for publication January 2001
Essay on Practical Magic for PICTURING JUSTICE
Essay on women lawyers for BOOKS-ON-LAW (JURIST)
Historians and Defamation Law
"L. A. Law, Or, Huey Long Looks Just Like Roseanne's Husband". Essay on the image of Louisiana law and justice in popular culture for the Louisiana Law Review ("Ruminations" issue).
Legal Research in Maritime Law, for Deskbook, Benedict on Admiralty (Matthew Bender, forthcoming).
The Medium Was the Message: Spiritualism, Statutes and the Trial of Helen Duncan
The Prisoner. Essay for the Legal Studies Forum (2001).
"Quick, Avert Your Eyes, Or You'll Miss It!" Essay on Cohen v. California and Louisiana's obscene bumper sticker law for the Louisiana Law Review
Symposium on Nuremberg and Tokyo, LSU Law Center, TBA
"We Don't Want Advantages". Essay on Adam's Rib and the image of women lawyers in film for Law and Society.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Other Publications
CWRU Masters the World Wide Web, 1996 In Brief -- (Jan. 1996).
Computers in the Law: Some Views From Cyberspace, 1995 In Brief 1.
Briefing the Case: Securities Law, 15 SWALL Bull. 19 (May, 1984).
Ohio State Legal Documents and Related Publications: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography (1986)(AALL Occasional Publications 3-27)
Oklahoma Legal and Law-Related Documents and Publications (1983)(AALL Occasional Publications 3-9). Cited in State Legal Research: University of Denver Law Library Guide
True Crime, in 6 Mystery Readers International (Fall 1990)(special issue on "Political Murders").
True Crime, in 6 Mystery Readers International (Winter 1990)(special issue on "Beastly Murders").
Selected Book Reviews
Book review, Reel Justice, by Michael Asimow and Paul Bergmann, in the Baton Rouge Advocate
Software Reviews
PC Menu, Libr. Software Rev., January/February 1987, at 51 (with Daniel J. Kowall).
Selected Presentations"The European Community: Research in Commercially Published Sources," presented at the Institute on International Organizations, Harvard Law School, July 1993.
"The Council of Europe," presented at the Institute on International Organizations, Harvard Law School, July 1993.
"War Crimes in Popular Culture," American Association of Law Libraries, Section on Foreign, Comparative and International Law, Anaheim, California, July 13, 1998
"The Top Ten Reasons Why No One Likes You Now That You're a Judge," Ethics and Professionalism CLE for the Louisiana Judicial College, October 3, 1999 (with Paul Joseph, Nova Law School)
"The Public Defender in the Media," Panel discussion moderated by Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School, for the Criminal Defense Institute, November 19, 1999, Washington DC (with Elayne Rapping, Richard Sherwin, Bill Moffitt, Roger Cossack)
"The Client as Trickster", paper to be presented at the 3d Annual Law and the Humanities Conference, Georgetown University Law Center, March 10-12, 2000
"In Re Ally McBeal," paper to be presented at the American Cultural Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2000
"The Law of Privacy in the United States and England," paper to be presented to Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies Conference, ("Journées Strasbourgiennes") Strasbourg, France, July 5, 2000
Member, Committee on Clinical Legal Education 1997/1998
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee since 1997
Member, Library Committee 1997/1998
Member, Law Center Scholarship and Lecture Committee, since 1998
Member, Law Center Student-Faculty Relations Committee 1999/2000
Faculty co-advisor, Environmental Law Society (since 1997)
Faculty advisor, Legal Association for Women (since 1998)
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on First Year Curriculum 1996/1997
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Health Law Program 1997/1998
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Student Technology Fee Implementation and Use 1996/1997
RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND OTHER SERVICE
Co-Listowner ANTIGONE (listserv of the Section on Women in Legal Education, Association of American Law Schools)
Co-Listowner, HUMLAW-L (listserv of the Section on Law and the Humanities, Association of American Law Schools)
Creator of ANTIGONE, website for the Section on Women in Legal Education, Association of American Law Schools
Creator of LAW AND THE HUMANITIES Website
Secretary, LSU Women's Faculty Club, 1999-2000
Member, Curriculum Committee, Women and Gender Studies Program, LSU 1999/2000
Organizer and coordinator, Workshop on Law and the Arts, funded by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge and anonymous donors, September 26, 1998
Moderator, Special Interest Group on Teaching Foreign, Comparative and International Legal Research, AALL
Vice Chair/Chair Elect Foreign, Comparative and International Law SIS, American Association of Law Libraries
Chair, Section on Law and the Humanities, Association of American Law Schools, 2000/2001
Crystalline Entities: Webpages Devoted to Crystalline Glazed Porcelain
WEBSITES AND ETEXTS OF PERSONAL INTEREST
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