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Elizabeth Beske Professor WCL Faculty

Additional Positions at AU
Associate Dean for Scholarship
Degrees
A.B., Princeton University 1989
J.D., Columbia University School of Law 1993

Bio
Elizabeth Earle Beske is the Associate Dean for Scholarship and a tenured Professor of Law at 国产小呦女 Washington College of Law. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Law Review and was designated a Kent Scholar and Stone Scholar. Upon graduation, she received the John Ordronaux prize for highest academic achievement in her graduating class.

After graduation, Ms. Beske clerked for Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Beske spent 4 years as an appellate litigator at Munger, Tolles, & Olson LLP in San Francisco, California before moving to Bethesda, Maryland with her family. In recent years, she has worked as a consultant specializing in appellate writing.

In 2018, Professor Beske received the Washington College of Law Excellence in Teaching Award. At the law school, she teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, and Constitutional Law, and her scholarship focuses on Article III, adjudicative retroactivity, and the separation of powers.
See Also
Areas of Specialization
Civil Procedure
Constitutional Law
Federal Courts
Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research
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