Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law
E-mail: lsgreene@wisc.edu
Telephone: (608)262-6351
Office: Room 9105, Law School
Education:
B.A., California State University -- Long Beach
J.D., University of California -- Berkeley
Teaching Areas:
Civil Procedure
Civil Rights
Constitutional Law
Recently Taught Courses
740 Constitutional Law II
802 Civil Procedure II
904 SP Con Law: Politics & Equality
904 SP Con Law: Politics & Equality
Biography
Linda
S. Greene is Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin -
Madison. Her teaching and academic
scholarship are concentrated in the areas of Constitutional Law, Civil
Procedure, Legislation, Civil Rights and Sports Law. Professor Greene has also held administrative
positions at the University including, from 1999 to 2004, serving as Associate
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
Following
graduation from the University of California at Berkeley Law School in 1974,
Professor Greene began her career as a civil rights attorney on the staff of
the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York City. There she litigated employment discrimination
and housing discrimination class actions. She was also involved in capital
punishment litigation. She began law teaching in 1978, first at Assistant
Professor at Temple University and later a tenured Associate Professor at
University of Oregon. Professor Greene
has been a visiting professor at Harvard and Georgetown law schools, and also has
taught abroad in Germany, Ghana, and Japan.
From
1986 to 1989, Professor Greene was Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary
Committee where she specialized in matters involving judicial confirmation,
federal courts and constitutional law. She provided legal advice in connection with the nomination and
confirmation of federal court judges by the U.S. Senate, including
consideration of five Supreme Court nominees. During a leave of absence from this position in 1988, she was a senior
advisor to the Jackson and Dukakis Democratic Presidential Campaigns.
Professor
Greene joined the University of Wisconsin Law School faculty in 1989. In addition to her teaching and scholarship,
she has served on many important committees affecting the University community
including the University Committee, the Athletic Board, the Social Studies
(Sciences) Executive Committee, and the Law School Faculty Appointments
Committee.
For
five years she was associate Vice Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin
Madison. During this time she led UW Madison's faculty strategic hiring effort
that increased the numbers of women scientists and engineers, minority faculty,
and interdisciplinary hires. Her responsibilities included new faculty
programs, dean and department chair professional development, and women faculty
mentoring program. She conducted a campus
wide review of women faculty salaries, initiated a faculty wide salary review
process, was Faculty Ombudsperson, and established a campus-wide ombuds office.
Outside
of the University, Professor Greene has lead efforts to recruit minorities and
women into academia through, among other things, serving as President of the
Society of American Law Teachers and as Chair of the American Association of
Law Schools Section on Minority Groups. She also is involved in promoting equal opportunity in sports and
athletics. Professor Greene is a co-founder of the Black Women in Sport
Foundation, and has also lead efforts to diversify coaching and administrative ranks in
intercollegiate athletics. For twelve years she was a leader in the United
States Olympic Committee (USOC), where she chaired the USOC Legislation Committee, was vice chair of the USOC Audit Committee and a co-author of the
USOC diversity policies.
She
is also an avid supporter of the arts. She served for six years as a Board member of the Madison Museum
of Contemporary Art and was also a member of its Permanent Collection Committee.
She
is a public speaker on many topics as well as a political and legal analyst for
print, radio, and television. In Wisconsin, she is well known for her hundreds
of appearances for ten years on Weekend,
Wisconsin Public Television's news and public affairs show.
