Dorothea Beane
Professor
Law
Stetson University
United States of America
Biography
Dorothea Beane is a professor of law at Stetson and recently was awarded the Stetson University College of Law Teaching Excellence Award. Professor Dorothea Beane began her career from 1977-81 as trial attorney for the United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Torts Branch in Washington, D.C. After working briefly for the law firm of Robinson & Geraldo, P.A. in Washington D.C., she was appointed in 1983 as assistant United States attorney from the Middle District of Florida, serving as senior civil litigating attorney from 1985-90. Professor Beane's area of practice included personal injury, medical malpractice, bankruptcy law, regulatory enforcement and environmental law. She received the Attorney General's Special Achievement Award for Sustained Superior Performance of Duty in 1986.
Research Interest
personal injury, medical malpractice, bankruptcy law, regulatory enforcement and environmental law
Publications
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Assembly of States Parties Elects Eighteen Judges to the International Criminal Court, ASIL Intl. Orgs. Bull. 2 (Spring 2003)
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Catching the Chameleon: When Is the Treating Physician an Expert? 51 Fed. Law. 4 (May 2004) (co-authored with Professor Theodore E. Karatinos).
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Eugenic Sterilization: A Most Dangerous Phoenix Legislative and Constitutional Analysis, (Work in Progress)
