Beverly Balos

Vaughan G. Papke Clinical Professor of Law

Beverly Balos

428 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-625-7809

balos001@umn.edu

State University of New York at Binghamton, B.A.
University of Minnesota, J.D.

Clinical Professor Beverly Balos is recognized for her work in the areas of violence against women, domestic violence and feminist jurisprudence. She teaches the civil practice clinic, domestic abuse prosecution clinic, and the law and violence against women course and clinic. Professor Balos was the inaugural holder of the Vaughan G. Papke Clinical Professorship in Law Chair from 1997-99.

Professor Balos received a B.A. degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton and a J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Minnesota. After graduating from law school, she received a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellowship to practice law at Legal Assistance of Ramsey County. From 1979 to 1982, Professor Balos was the Director of Advocacy for Family and Children Services of Minneapolis. In addition to administering a program of advocacy services, she was co-counsel in a class action that successfully challenged the constitutionality of the Minnesota Civil Commitment Statute.

 

Professor Balos was a partner in the law firm of Balos & Miyamoto before joining the clinical faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School in 1983. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research and a visiting professor at Cornell Law School. Professor Balos is a member of the Board of Directors for the St. Paul Domestic Abuse Intervention Project and a member of the Minnesota Department of Corrections Mental Health Unit Review Board.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Law and Violence Against Women: Cases and Materials on Systems of Oppression 2004 Supplement (co-authored)

Law and Violence Against Women: Cases and Materials on Systems of Oppression (Supp. 2000) (with Mary Louise Fellows).

Law and Violence Against Women: Cases and Materials on Systems of Oppression (1994) (with Mary Louise Fellows).

Articles

Domestic Violence Matters: The Case for Appointed Counsel in Protective Order Proceedings, 15 Temp. Pol. & Civ. Rts. L. Rev. 557 (2006)

The Wrong Way to Equality: Privileging Consent and the Trafficking of Women, 27 Harvard Women's Law Journal 137 (2004)

A Man's Home is His Castle: How the Law Shelters Domestic Violence and Sexual Harassment, 23 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 77 (2004)

Legal Scholarship for Social Justice: Panel Discussion, 30 Wm. Mitchell L. Review 295 (2003)

Teaching Prostitution Seriously, 4 Buffalo Crim L. Rev. 709 (2001)

A Matter of Prostitution: Becoming Respectable, 74 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1220 (1999) (with Mary Louise Fellows).

The Bounds of Professionalism: Challenging Our Students; Challenging Ourselves, 4 Clin. L. Rev. 129 (1997).

A Legislative Antidote for the Myths of Prostitution, Hennepin Law., Jan.-Feb. 1995, at 5 (with Mary Louise Fellows).

Conferring on the MacCrate Report: A Clinical Gaze, 1 Clinical L. Rev. 349 (1994).

Learning to Teach Gender, Race, Class and Heterosexism: Challenge in the Classroom and Clinic, 3 Hastings Women's L. J. 161 (1992).

Guilty of the Crime of Trust: Nonstranger Rape, 75 Minn. L. Rev. 599 (1991) (with Mary Louise Fellows).

Judicial Procedures in Misdemeanor Domestic Assault Cases-a Model Policy, 10 Ill. U. L. Rev. 259 (1990) (with Isabel Gomez).

An Analysis of Pediatric, Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Discharges From Reporting Hospital, Commission on Professional Hospital Activities (1989) (with Butts, Duffy & Schwartz).

Some Characteristic of Misdemeanor Domestic Assault Prosecution in Six Minnesota Jurisdictions, Minnesota Supreme Court Task Force for Gender Fairness in the Courts (1989).

Enforcement of the Domestic Abuse Act in Minnesota: A Preliminary Study, 6 Law & Ineq. J. 83 (1988) (with Katie Trotzky).

Psychiatric and Chemical Dependency Treatment of Minors: The Myth of Voluntary Treatment and the Capacity to Consent, 92 Dick. L. Rev. 631 (1988) (with Ira M. Schwartz).

Civil Commitment of Juveniles: Treatment Plans, Statutory and Constitutional Rights and the Right to Refuse Treatment, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs University of Minnesota, Feb. 1987.

Battering: Some Thoughts on Old Defenses, New Programs and Enforcement Tools, Hennepin Law., Jan-Feb. 1986, at 6.

Book Reviews

8 Const. Comm. 317 (1991) (reviewing Sexual Orientation and the Law, Harv. Law Review eds. (1990)).

COURSES

Courses

Domestic Violence Clinic
Domestic Assault and Prosecution Clinic
Law and Violence Against Women
Civil Clinic