JOSEPH
M. OLIVENBAUM
H: (203) 348-5504
W: (203) 582-3287
Education
Northeastern University
J.D.,
1981
B.A.
(English Literature), 1970
Employment
Visiting Associate Professor of Law and
Associate Director of Academic Support
July 2001-present
Teach two sections of Legal
Skills, a required first-year course focusing on legal analysis, legal writing,
research, oral argumentation, citations, and related topics. As Associate Director of Academic Support, provide academic support in a variety of
contexts and have developed aspects of program design for delivery of academic
support services. Teach students in
individual conference settings and small groups; initiated, developed and teach
larger weekly sessions open to all first-year students; created teaching
materials appropriate to each of those settings. Teach bar exam preparation
classes. Taught refresher citation classes to law review members. Delivered
presentation to student group on surveillance provisions of the USA Patriot Act
and appeared as guest lecturer in Law and Terrorism Seminar on same subject.
Associate
Professor of Law
Acting
Director of Legal Writing
2000-2001
Taught Lawyering Skills, Criminal
Law & Legal Methods, all required first-year courses; for each course,
developed curriculum designed to integrate substantive doctrinal materials,
analytical writing, materials on professional responsibility, and practical
skills.
Coordinated the first-year writing
program, both within the various sections of Lawyering Skills course and in
other first-year courses; worked closely with numerous faculty members teaching
in first-year, upper-year, and clinical courses on effectively integrating
writing into their curricula. Worked
closely with faculty in the
Pace
Associate
Professor of Law
1992-July
2000
Developed and taught Criminal Law/
Legal Analysis and Writing, a required first-year course, presented as an
innovative and unique integration of traditional substantive criminal law
course and writing/ legal analysis/ lawyering/ "skills" course.
Other courses taught: Criminal
Procedure, Advanced Appellate Advocacy.
Also created and taught Introduction to U.S. Legal Analysis and Writing
and U.S. Legal Culture as part of LL.M.
Program in Comparative Law for Foreign Lawyers.
Recipient
of the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award from the Class of 1999.
Acting Director, Academic Support
Program (1999-2000). Taught the Academic
Support sections of Criminal Law/ Legal Analysis & Writing (most years,
1995-2000).
Coached, mentored and mooted
numerous Moot Court teams; served as judge for National Environmental Moot
Court Competition; faculty advisor to many student organizations, including
Asian-American Law Student Association and Global Law Student Association; made
numerous presentations to student organizations on topical issues of criminal
law and procedure, legal writing, legal
history, legal culture, exam preparation and study techniques; active member of
many faculty committees; member, Screening Committee for the Minority Bar
Fellowship Program of the Bar Association of the City of
Instructor,
Legal Research and Writing
1987-1992
Developed and taught required
first-year course to 135 students annually and upper-level seminar. First-year course focused on writing
as the expression of legal analysis, and on conducting effective and efficient
research as the basis of legal analysis.
Course highlighted practical problems of writing in law office
environment; also introduced students to oral advocacy and to oral presentation
of analysis in case conference setting.
Responsibilities included teaching large first-year classes; designing
sequence of problems to introduce students to technical and substantive aspects
of legal writing, in a manner both challenging and manageable; providing
extensive written and oral critiques of writing, both one-on-one and in class
settings; and providing administrative and curricular direction for the course. Responsibilities also included substantial
and ongoing re-design of course materials, format and objectives; and
integration with other first-year courses.
Upper-level seminar for teaching assistants, "teaching
teachers to teach," focused on using the substantive law presented by
writing assignments, effective commenting and conferencing strategies,
pedagogy, and time management and organizational techniques.
Donahue & Donahue,
Attorneys,
1982-1987
Associate in litigation section of
this general practice law firm.
Primarily responsible for firm's appellate litigation; prepared briefs
in wide range of cases, involving issues of products liability, personal
injury, contract, criminal, and administrative law. Handled extensive and varied litigation
caseload; appeared frequently before state and federal courts, administrative
agencies, municipal boards, and in negotiation and settlement proceedings. Extensive writing experience.
Business
Experience
Founder, manager, business manager
of The Eatery, a successful and innovative restaurant.
Bar
Memberships
Supreme
Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1981
United
States District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1982
Publications
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Rethinking Federal Computer Crime Legislation, 27 Seton Hall L. Rev. 574
(1997).