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Amy D. Ronner, Professor of Law

 


 

Office
St. Thomas University School of Law
16400 N.W. 37th Avenue
Miami, Florida 33054
Phone: (305) 623-2322
Fax: (305) 623-2390
Email: aronner@stu.edu


 

Legal
Education
J.D. , University of Miami School of Law, 1985
Magna Cum Laude

 


 

Pre-Legal
Education
Ph.D. , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1980
Major: 19th Century British Literature
Minor: Creative Writing and Old English

M.A. , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1976
English Language and Literature

B.A. , Beloit College, Wisconsin, 1975
Major: English Composition and Creative Writing
Minor: Education

 


 

Honors
Law School
University of Miami Law Review, Member

Order of the Coif

American Jurisprudence Awards:
 Civil Procedure
Trusts and Estates
Torts
Constitutional Law

Best Brief in Advanced Moot Court Competition, 1985

 


 

Honors
Graduate School:
University of Michigan
 
Distinguished Graduate Student Department Award (1980)

Distinguished Teaching Award (1979)

Award for Distinguished Achievement in Ph.D. Area Examinations (1978)

 


 

Legal
Honors
Board Certified Appellate Lawyer (Effective June 1, 1995)

Elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation in recognition of professional attainment, distinguished service and commitment (1998)

Selected as a Leading Florida Attorney in Civil Appellate Law by the American Research Corporation (1997): To be selected attorneys must receive multiple recommendations for their peers in a statewide survey and fewer than 6% of the state’s attorneys are selected.

Recipient of the Florida Association of Women Lawyers 50th Anniversary Golden Star Award (2001)

Recipient of Certificate of Appreciation from the Circuit Court of the State of Florida, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, For Contribution to the North Dade Justice Center Law Week (2002)

Award for Meritorious Committee Service to the Legal Profession And The Florida Bar (Appelate Court Rules Committee) (2003)

 


 

Legal Employment
2002-2003
University of Miami School of Law
P.O. Box 248087
Coral Gables, Florida 33124-8087

Visiting Professor of Law: 
Family Law, Professional Responsibility, And Trusts and Estates

1992 to the present

St. Thomas University School of Law
16400 N.W. 37th Avenue
Miami, Florida 33054

Tenured Professor of Law:
Property I and II, Appellate Practice, Wills and Trusts, Criminal Procedure; Creator and Director of the St. Thomas University School of Law Appellate Litigation Clinic (1992-99)

Recipient of the Professor of the Year Award
By the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, The Student Bar Association and the Students Of St. Thomas University of Law (2002)

1989-92
Holland & Knight
Miami, Florida 33131
Associate: Appellate work and some commercial litigation

1986-89
Greer, Homer, Cope & Bonner, P.A.
Miami, Florida 33131
Associate: Commercial litigation and some appellate work

1985-86
The Honorable Eugene P. Spellman,
United States District Judge For the Southern District of Florida
Law Clerk

1984-85
University of Miami School of Law
Miami, Florida 33124
Part-Time Instructor (Position held as a third-year law student)

 


 

Pre-Legal
Employment
1980-84
University of Miami
Miami, Florida 33124
Lecturer: English Literature, American Literature, World Literature, Composition and Creative Writing

1975-80
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Teaching Fellow: English Composition, Great Books (for honors students), Composition and Creative Writing

 


 

Legal Publications
Legal Publications

Book

Homophobia And the Law (American Psychological Association, 2005)

England and Ronner’s Practical Guide To The Appellate Courts Of Florida (Revere Legal Publishers, 2001) (co-authored with Arthur J. England, Jr., ex-Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court).

Articles In Books

The Antitherapeutic Per Curiam Affirmance, in JUDGING IN A THERAPEUTIC KEY: THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE AND THE COURTS, Bruce J. Winick and David B. Wexler, eds., (Carolina Academic Press, 2003)

Some In-House Appellate Litigation Clinic’s Lessons In Professional Responsibility: Musical Stories of Candor and the Sandbag in CLINICAL ANTHOLOGY READINGS FOR LIVE-CLIENT CLINICS, Alex Hurder, ed. (Anderson Publishing Co., 1997).

Articles

Denaturalization And Death: What It Means To Preclude The Exercise of Judicial Discretion ___ GEORGETOWN IMMIGRATION LAW JOURNAL___ (2005) (forthcoming).

Voiceless Billy Budd: Melville’s Tribute To the Sixth Amendment, 41 CALIFORNIA WESTERN LAW REVIEW 103 (2004)

Homophobia and Death: In The Closest and In the Coffin, 21 LAW AND INEQUALITY 65 (2003)

Songs of Validation, Voice and Voluntary Participation: Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Miranda and Juveniles, 71 University of Cincinnati Law Review 89 (2002)

Scouting for Intolerance: The Dale Court’s Resurrection of The Medieval Leper, 11 Law & Sexuality 53 (2002) (forthcoming)

Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Is the North American Free Trade Agreement A Lie for Lawyers, 32 University Of Miami Inter-American law Review, 437 (2001) (forthcoming co-authored with Dennis J. O’Connor)

Fleeing While Black: The Fourth Amendment Apartheid, 32 the Columbia human rights law review 383 (2001)

The Per Curiam Affirmance: A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Critique, IX The Record: Journal of the Appellate Practice Section of the Florida Bar 1 (Spring 2001)

Silencing the Appellant’s Voice: The Antitherapeutic Per Curiam Affirmance, 24 seattle university law review 499 (2001) (co-authored with Bruce Winick).

Therapeutic Jurisprudence on Appeal, 37 Court Review 64 (2000)

Women Who Dance on the Professional Track: Custody and the Red Shoes, 23 Harvard Women’s Law Journal 173 (2000)

Punishment Meted Out for Acquittals: An Anti-Therapeutic Jurisprudence Atrocity, 41 Arizona Law Review 461 (1999)

The Demise of the Reasonable Doubt Standard: The Toxic Watts and Putra Decision, 60 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 383 (1999).

The Cassandra Curse: The Stereotype of the Female Liar Resurfaces in Jones v. Clinton, 31 U.C. Davis Law Review 123 (1997)

Husband And Wife Are One - Him: Bennis v. Michigan As The Resurrection of Coverture, 4 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 129 (1996)

Prometheus Unbound: Accepting a Mythless Concept Of Civil In Rem Forfeiture With Double Jeopardy Protection, 44 Buffalo Law Review 655 (1996)

Some In-House Appellate Litigation clinic’s Lessons In Professional Responsibility: Musical Stories of Candor and the Sandbag, 45 The American University Law Review 859 (1996)

Amathia and Denial of "In the Home" in Bowers v. Hardwick and Shahar v. Bowers: Objective Correlatives and The Bacchae as Tools for Analyzing Privacy and Intimacy, 44 The University Of Kansas Law Review 263 (1996)

When Judges Impose The Death Penalty After the Jury Recommends Life: Harris v. Alabama as the Excision of the Tympanic Membrane in an Augmentedly Death-Biased Procedure, 23 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 217 (1995)

Bottoms v. Bottoms: The Lesbian Mother and the Judicial Perpetuation of Damaging Stereotypes, 7 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 341 (1995)

Destructive Rules of Certainty and Efficiency: A Study in the Context of Summary Judgment Procedure and the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, 28 Loyola of Los Angeles law Review 619 (1995)

Real Students, Real Appeals, RealCourts; The In-House Appellate Litigation Clinic at St. Thomas University School of Law, II, No. 2,The Record: Journal Of The Appellate Practice section of the Florida Bar 13 (May 1994)

Judicial Self-Demise: Article III Separation Of Powers After Seattle Audubon and the New Section of the 1934 Securities Exchange Act, 35 Arizona Law Review 1037 (1993)

Brockmeyer v. Dun & Bradstreet: The Narrow Public Policy Exception to the Terminable-At-Will Rule, 39 University of Miami Law Review 565 (1984)