Appleton Named Lehmann Research Professor

Susan Frelich Appleton has been named the John S. Lehmann Research Professor for 2009-10. During her research leave, she will focus on a series of projects that explore contemporary challenges to traditional understandings of gender, sexuality, reproduction, and parentage. She will be working with other scholars in Washington University’s Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program in order to make her work more multidisciplinary.

Appleton, the Lemma Barkeloo and Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law, is a nationally renowned expert on family law. She is the co-author of the new casebook, Adoption and Assisted Reproduction: Families Under Construction, published in 2009. She and her co-author, Professor D. Kelly Weisberg of the University of California Hastings College of Law, also are the authors of the casebook, Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials. The fourth edition is scheduled for publication later in 2009. The author of numerous law review articles, Appleton has focused her recent scholarship on issues related to reproduction, adoption, marriage, parentage, and sexuality.

The Lehmann fellowship was created in 2008 to allow scholars the ability to concentrate on in-depth research projects, while relieving them of teaching and administrative duties during one semester. Previous recipients, Professors Pauline Kim and Barbara Flagg, used the fellowship to conduct research on employment law and racial discrimination, respectively.