Diane J. Klein

Professor of Law
J.D., University of California, Los Angeles
A.B., Harvard-Radcliffe College

Professor Klein has taught at Thurgood Marshall School of Law, in Houston, Texas, as well as Albany Law School, Albany, New York. She has taught in the summer programs of Columbia Law School (Amsterdam) and Southwestern Law School. Before pursuing an academic career, she clerked for the Hon. Lourdes G. Baird, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, and worked in Los Angeles and New York law firms.

Professor Klein has published in both legal and philosophy journals, delivered papers and participated in conferences and panel discussions, and had her articles cited in numerous journals and judicial opinions.

Her current research includes an analysis of the myriad legal challenges facing transgendered people; plural marriage and property law; the completion of her nationwide survey on tortious interference with expectation of inheritance; and an article in tort theory.

Professor Klein teaches Property and serves as advisor to the University of La Verne Law Review. In recent years, she has also taught Antidiscrimination Law and Wills & Trusts.

E-mail: dianejklein@aol.com

Antidiscrimination Law
Conflicts of Law
Property
Wills and Trusts

"Judaism and Same-Sex Marriage/Homosexuality and Jewish Marriage - Reimagining Taharat HaMishpachah," forthcoming in SEX AND DESIRE ACROSS BOUNDARIES (Proceedings of Persons & Sexuality 4th Global Conference), Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, ISBN 978-1-904710-59-5 (2008) (forthcoming).

"Constructions of Latino Masculinity on CSI: Miami," 4 FIU L. REV. __ (2008) (forthcoming).

"Housingdiscrimination.com?: The Ninth Circuit (Mostly) Puts Out the Welcome Mat for Fair Housing Act Suits Against Roommate-Matching Websites," 38 GOLDEN GATE L.R. 101 (2008) (coauthored with Charles Doskow).

"Naming and Framing the 'Subject' of Antebellum Slave Contracts: 'A Man,' Joseph, Eliza, and Albert," 9 RUTGERS RACE & L. REV. __ (Spring 2008) (forthcoming).

"Paying Eliza: Comity, Contracts, and Critical Race Theory - 19th Century Choice of Law Doctrine and the Validation of Antebellum Contracts for the Purchase and Sale of Human Beings," 20 NAT'L BLACK L.J. 1 [Columbia Law School] (2006-2007) .

"A Disappointed Yankee in Connecticut (or Nearby) Probate Court: Tortious Interference With Expectation of Inheritance - A Survey With Analysis of State Approaches in the First, Second, and Third Circuits," 66 UNIV. PITT. L. R. 235 (Winter 2004).

"The Disappointed Heir's Revenge, Southern Style: Tortious Interference With Expectation of Inheritance - A Survey With Analysis of State Approaches in the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits," 55 BAYLOR L. R. 79 (Winter 2003).

"Revenge of the Disappointed Heir: Tortious Interference With Expectation of Inheritance - A Survey With Analysis of State Approaches in the Fourth Circuit," 104 W.V. L. REV. 259 (Winter 2002).

"Ally McBeal and Her Sisters: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Representations of Women Lawyers on Prime Time Television," 18 LOY. L.A. ENT. L. J. 259 (1998).

"Pregnancy Discrimination in Show Business: Tylo v. Spelling Entertainment Group," 4 UCLA ENT. L. REV. 219 (1997).

"Distorted Reasoning: Gender, Risk-Aversion, and Negligence Law," 30 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 629 (1997).

Other Periodical Publications

"Get a Room - Legally" (re: Fair Housing Council v. Roommate.com), L.A. Daily Journal (April 2008). Also quoted in L.A. Daily Journal (April 4, 2008), commenting on the case.

"Maternal Profiling," 58 Riverside Lawyer 13 (February 2008).

"Trademark Blues," L.A. Daily Journal 7 (January 18, 2008).

"Advances in Employment Nondiscrimination Ignore Transgendered," L.A. Daily Journal 6 (November 30, 2007).

"Racism More Than Skin Deep," L.A. Daily Journal 6 (July 9, 2007) (re: Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, --- S.Ct. ----, 2007 WL 1836531 (U.S.) (June 28, 2007)).

"Reefer Madness At The High Court," L.A. Daily Journal 6 (July 2, 2007) (re: Morse v. Frederick, 555 U.S. __ (June 25, 2007)).

"Not Just A Study Break: Using Body Heat, Kanye West's 'Gold Digger,' And South Park to Teach (And Examine!) Wills & Trusts, Family Law, and Property," THE LAW TEACHER 8 (Fall 2006).

"In Flap Over Baby 'Brangelina,' Technology Blunts Copyright Claims," L.A. Daily Journal 8 (June 14, 2006).

"Court Cuts Through Years of Misguided Confusion About 'Probate Exception,'" L.A. Daily Journal 6 (May 19, 2006) (re: Marshall v. Marshall, 126 S.Ct. 1735 (May 1, 2006)).

"Legal Research? And Writing? In a Property Class?," 14 PERSPECTIVES: TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING 1 (Fall 2005).

"A Will-Drafting Exercise," 10 THE LAW TEACHER 9-10 (Fall 2002) (available online at www.gonzaga.law.edu/ilst/Newsletters/Fall02/klein.htm).

"Moral Accountability and the Estate Tax Lawyer," 6 PROFESSIONAL ETHICS 27 (1997).

Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers, Mark Regnerus, reviewed in 1 GLOBAL JOURNAL OF SENSUALITY, SEXUALITY AND THE EROTIC (2009).

African Kids: Between Warlords, Child Soldiers, and Living on the Street, Melha Rout Biel (2004), 29 U. LA VERNE L. REV. 167 (2008).

They Broke the Law - You Be The Judge: True Cases of Teen Crime, Thomas Jacobs. Metapsychology (Nov. 2, 2004). Available online at: http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2380.

Singing in the Fire: Stories of Women in Philosophy, Linda Martín Alcoff (ed). Metapsychology (Oct. 29, 2004). Available online at: http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2370.

Confidential Relationships: Psychoanalytic, Ethical and Legal Contexts, Christine Koggel, et al. Metapsychology (March 26, 2004). Available online at: http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2098.

How Can I Be Trusted? A Virtue Theory of Trustworthiness, Nancy Nyquist Potter. Metapsychology (Feb. 11, 2004). Available online at: http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2063.

"Discrimination 'Because of Sex'?: Legal Rights of Transgendered Persons Under Title VII (and other applicable state and federal civil rights laws)," Translating Identity Conference 2.0, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, October 27, 2007.

"Nip/Tuck This: Contemporary Representations of Transgendered and Intersexed Persons on Television," Translating Identity Conference 2.0, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, October 27, 2007.

Representations of Hispanic and Latina/o Identity in Miami on prime-time television, LatCrit XII, "Critical Localities," Florida International University School of Law, Miami, Florida, October 4-6, 2007.

"Tortious Interference With Expectation of Inheritance: A Lone Star State Perspective," 2003 Advanced Estate Planning and Probate Course, State Bar of Texas, June 4-6, 2003.

"When Is A Lawyer Not A Lawyer?" American Corporate Counsel Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Participant in panel discussion, October 22, 2002.

"Attorney-Client Privilege in Texas," 2-hour CLE presentation to the Houston chapter of the American Corporate Counsel Association, October 5, 2001.

"True Lies: Uncontested Perjurious Testimony in Marital Dissolution as Counter-Hegemonic Strategy," UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Thinking Gender Conference, March 7, 1997.

"Distorted Reasoning" (see Publications above), Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1st Annual Convocation for Law Students, March 8-10, 1996. Awarded 1st Prize. Earlier version presented at UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Thinking Gender Conference, February 9, 1996.

"Supererogation," Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, 1990.

"Courage," Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, 1989.

"Judaism and Same-Sex Marriage: Reimagining Taharat HaMishpachah," Persons and Sexuality, Salzburg, Austria, November, 2007.

"Friends and Lovers," The Erotic, Salzburg, Austria, November, 2007.

"Comity, Contracts, and Critical Race Theory: How Antebellum States Applied Choice of Law Doctrine to Contracts for the Purchase and Sale of Human Beings," Critical Race Theory and Human Rights Conference, University of Ontario (Canada) Institute of Technology, Toronto, Canada, October 27, 2005.

"Undoing Marriage: Three Moments in the History of the Law of Marital Dissolution" University of East London, England, Critical Legal Conference: Other Justices, Others' Justice, September 6-8, 1996.

Diane J. Klein
Associate Professor of Law
University of La Verne College of Law
320 East D Street
Ontario, California 91764
USA

Tel: (909) 460-2038
Fax: (909) 460-2081
E-mail: dianejklein@aol.com

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