Brown University, B.S.
Georgetown University, J.D.
Professor Carol L. Chomsky is a recognized scholar of legal history and a leader in the field of teaching development. Her courses include American legal history, contracts, sales, and judicial externship. Her scholarly work has focused on the history of women lawyers, American Indian legal history, and late nineteenth century American legal history. She is Coordinator of the University of Minnesota's Early Career Teaching Program: Pursuing Excellence in Multicultural Education, and teaches a law school seminar on teaching and learning law.
Professor Chomsky received a B.S. degree from Brown University and a J.D. degree, summa cum laude, from Georgetown University. In law school, she was Case and Note Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal and earned the Francis E. Lucey, S.J. Award for maintaining the highest academic average in her graduating class. After completing her J.D., she clerked for Judge Spottswood W. Robinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1979 to 1980. Following her clerkship, she worked for the law firm of Stefanson, Landberg & Alm in Moorhead, Minnesota. Professor Chomsky then served as an associate with Sharp, Green & Lankford in Washington, D.C., for four years, before joining the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School in 1985.
Professor Chomsky served as co-president of the Society of American Law Teachers (2000-2002) and is a member of the American Law Institute. She is an active member of Minnesota Women Lawyers and served as President in 1993-94. She also served on the Minnesota Women Lawyers Task Force on the Status of Women in the Legal Profession.
Contracts: A Contemporary Approach (Thomson/West, forthcoming Fall 2010)
Sale of Goods: Reading and Applying the Code (West Group, 1st ed., 2002; Thomson West, 2nd ed., 2004) (with Christina L. Kunz)
Book Chapters
Exploring Holy Trinity: Spirit and History in Statutory Interpretation, in Statutory Interpretation Stories (Foundation Press, forthcoming 2010)
Teaching Students How to Read Statutes Critically, in Teaching the Law School Curriculum (Steven Friedland & Gerald F. Hess, eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2004) (with Christina L. Kunz)
Journal Articles
Introducing Negotiation and Drafting into the Contracts Classroom, 44 St. Louis University Law Journal 1545 (2000) (with Maury Landsman)
Viewing September 11 through the Lens of History, 89 Minnesota Law Review 1437 (2005) (reviewing September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? (Mary L. Dudziak, ed., Duke University Press, 2003))
Book Review, 7 Women's Legal History 2 (1994) (reviewing Virginia Drachman, Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers and the Origins of Professional Identity in America (University of Michigan Press, 1993))
Voluntarism Triumphant: Forbath on Law and Labor, 18 Law & Social Inquiry 319 (1993) (reviewing William E. Forbath, Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement (Harvard University Press, 1991))
Book Review, 12 Law & History Review 395 (1994) (reviewing Edward Lazarus, Black Hills, White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus the United States, 1775 to the Present (Harper Collins, 1991) and Petra T. Shattuck & Jill Norgren, Partial Justice: Federal Indian Law in a Liberal Constitutional System (Berg, 1991))
Selected Commercial Statutes for Payment Systems Courses (Thomson West, 2006) (Rev. eds. 2007, 2008, 2009) (Advisory Panel member) (with Christina L. Kunz, Linda J. Rusch & Elizabeth R. Schiltz)
Selected Commercial Statutes for Sales and Contracts Courses (Thomson West, 2006) (Rev. eds. 2007, 2008, 2009) (Advisory Panel member) (with Christina L. Kunz, Linda J. Rusch & Elizabeth R. Schiltz)
Selected Commercial Statutes for Secured Transactions Courses (Thomson West, 2006) (Rev. eds. 2007, 2008, 2009) (Advisory Panel member) (with Christina L. Kunz, Linda J. Rusch & Elizabeth R. Schiltz)
Selected Commercial Statutes (Thomson West, 2005) (Rev. eds. 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) (Advisory Panel member) (with Christina L. Kunz, Linda J. Rusch & Elizabeth R. Schiltz)
