Susan Frelich Appleton
Lemma Barkeloo and Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 576
Phone: (314) 935-6449
E-mail: appleton@wulaw.wustl.edu
Assistant: Jan Houf - (314) 935-6468
- Curriculum Vitae [view]
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Courses Taught
Criminal Law
Conflict of Laws
Family Law
Reproductive Control
Education
A.B., 1970, Vassar College
J.D., 1973, University of California - Berkeley
Profile
Susan Appleton, a nationally known expert on family law, has been a member of the Council of the American Law Institute since 1994 and has held the office of Secretary since 2004. She has served as an adviser for the ALI's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution and as a consultant to the New Jersey Bioethics Commission, assisting that agency in its recommendations for laws addressing "surrogate-mother" arrangements. In 2004, she joined the Board of Directors of the American Bar Foundation.
Appleton is the co-author of "Adoption and Assisted Reproduction: Families Under Construction" and four editions of "Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials." Her recent publications also include "Parents by the Numbers," 37 Hofstra Law Review 11 (2008); "Toward a 'Culturally Cliterate' Family Law?," 23 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 267 (2008); "Gender, Abortion, and Travel After Roe's End," 51 St. Louis University Law Journal 655 (2007); "Presuming Women: Revisiting the Presumption of Legitimacy in the Same-Sex Couples Era," 86 Boston University Law Review 227 (2006).
In April 2000, Professor Appleton became the inaugural recipient of the Lemma Barkeloo and Phoebe Couzins Professorship, named in honor of two individuals who, when they enrolled at this law school in 1869, might well have been the nation's first women law students.
On September 1, 2003, Professor Appleton returned to her full-time faculty position, after serving more than five years as Associate Dean of Faculty.
updated 2009 July 9