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Deborah L. Rhode is one of the country’s leading scholars in the fields of legal ethics and gender, law, and public policy. An author of over 20 books, including The Beauty Bias, Women and Leadership and Moral Leadership, she is the nation’s most frequently cited scholar in legal ethics. She is the director of the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession and Founding President of the International Association of Legal Ethics.
Professor Rhode is the former president of the Association of American Law Schools, the former chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession, the founder and former director of Stanford’s Center on Ethics, and the former director of the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford. She also served as senior counsel to the minority members of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary on presidential impeachment issues during the Clinton administration. She has received the American Bar Association’s Michael Franck award for contributions to the field of professional responsibility; the American Bar Foundation’s W. M. Keck Foundation Award for distinguished scholarship on legal ethics; and the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award for her work on expanding public service opportunities in law schools. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and vice chair of the board of Legal Momentum (formerly the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund). She is currently a columnist for The National Law Journal and has also published editorials in the The New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Slate.
In Print
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The "no problem, problem", Sydney Morning Harold: May 24, 2012
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Why Looks are the last bastion of discrimination, Washington Post: May 23, 2010
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In a 'Different' Voice: The Real Effect of Women on the Bench, Double X: June 10, 2009
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Gender & Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary, Fifth Edition, by Katherine T. Bartlett, Deborah L. Rhode. Aspen Publishers Read more
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Justice and Gender: Sex Discrimination and the Law, by Deborah L. Rhode. Harvard University Press Read more
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Leadership: Law Policy & Management (Aspen Elective Series), by Deborah L. Rhode, Amanda Packel. Aspen Publishers Read more
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Speaking of Sex: The Denial of Gender Inequality, by Deborah L. Rhode. Harvard University Press Read more
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The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law, by Deborah L. Rhode. Oxford University Press, USA Read more
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The Difference “Difference” Makes: Women and Leadership, by Deborah Rhode. Stanford Law and Politics Read more
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The Politics of Pregnancy: Adolescent Sexuality and Public Policy, by Professor Annette Lawson, Professor Deborah L. Rhode. Yale University Press Read more
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Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference, by Professor Deborah L. Rhode. Yale University Press Read more
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What Women Want: An Agenda for the Women's Movement, by Deborah L. Rhode. Oxford University Press Read more
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Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change, by Barbara Kellerman, Deborah L. Rhode. Jossey-Bass Read more