Jeanne M. Kaiser

Professor of Legal Research and Writing

EDUCATION

B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo
M.S., State University of New York at Buffalo
J.D., Western New England University School of Law

COURSES TAUGHT

Appellate Moot Court
Child, Family & State
Employment Discrimination
Judicial Externship
Legal Research & Writing

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: jkaiser@law.wne.edu
Phone: 413-796-2213
Office: L 206

GENERAL INFORMATION

While in law school Professor Kaiser, a 1993 magna cum laude graduate, served as both a Staff Member and Editor on the Western New England Law Review and was the recipient of numerous awards for academic excellence. After graduation from law school, she served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Elizabeth Porada of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Before joining the faculty in 1998, Professor Kaiser was a Litigation Associate in a Northampton general practice law firm. She also serves as Appellate Counsel for the Children and Family Law program of the Committee for Public Counsel Services.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Jeanne M. Kaiser, Victimized Twice: The Reasonable Efforts Requirement in Child Protection Cases When Parents Have a Mental Illness, 11 WHITTIER J. CHILD & FAM. ADVOC. 3 (2011). SSRN Digital Commons

Jeanne M. Kaiser, When the Truth and the Story Collide: What Legal Writers Can Learn From the Experience of Non-Fiction Writers About the Limits of Legal Storytelling, 16 J. LEGAL WRITING INST. 163 (2010). SSRN Digital Commons

Jeanne M. Kaiser, Finding a Reasonable Way to Enforce the Reasonable Efforts Requirement in Child Protection Cases, 7 RUTGER'S J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 100 (2009). SSRN Digital Commons

Jeanne M. Kaiser, Using a Literary Case Study to Teach Lawyering Skills: How We Used Damages by Barry Werth in the First-Year Legal Writing Curriculum, 12 LEG. WRITING 59 (2006) (with Myra Orlen). SSRN Digital Commons

Jeanne M. Kaiser, Commenting on Student Writing, THE SECOND DRAFT (The Legal Writing Institute), Nov. 1999, at 2 (with Beth Cohen, Jocelyn Cuffee, Harris Freeman, Myra Orlen). SSRN Digital Commons

Jeanne M. Kaiser, Moving Violations: An Examination of the Broad Preemptive Effect of The Carmack Amendment, 20 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 289 (1998). SSRN Digital Commons

Jeanne M. Kaiser, Constitutional Law -- First Amendment -- No Constitutional Right to Vote for Donald Duck: The Supreme Court Upholds the Constitutionality of Write-in Voting Bans in Burdick v. Takushi, 15 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 129 (1993). SSRN Digital Commons