CURRICULUM VITAE Dorothea Beane Professor of Law

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Dorothea Beane Professor of Law OFFICE ADDRESS Stetson University College of Law st Street South St Petersburg, Florida ext BIOGRAPHICAL DATA Birthdate: March 30, 1952 Place of Birth: (Plainfield, New Jersey, USA) Citizenship: (United States of America) EDUCATION Juris Doctor Degree, May 1977 Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey-Newark Bachelor of Arts, May 1974 Drew University, Madison, New Jersey Major: History Minors: Sociology and Political Science HONORS AND AWARDS Stetson University College of Law Teaching Excellence Award 2005 Special Achievement Award (Sustained Superior Performance of Duty) UNITED DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (1986) Letters of Commendation FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (1978, 1990) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (1981) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE(1984) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR (1986) UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (1990) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY OFFICE OF THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL (1990) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS (1990) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Page 1 of 6

2 UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE (1990) WORK EXPERIENCE Trial Attorney, Torts Branch Civil Division, United States Department of Justice Washington, DC November August 1981 Supervisor: Jeffrey Axelrad, Director, Torts Branch, Civil Division Represented Federal Agencies and Officials in United States District Courts and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals as trial and appellate counsel, supervised and co-chaired tort litigation within various Offices of the United States Attorneys. Associate Law Offices of Robinson and Geraldo, P.C., Washington, DC August March 1982 Conducted civil litigation in firm offices in Washington, DC, Harrisburg and Reading, Pennsylvania Assistant United States Attorney Middle District of Florida for the Jacksonville and Ocala Divisions Jacksonville, Florida General Civil Litigation (January ) Senior Civil Litigating Attorney ( ) PUBLICATIONS Conducted general civil litigation representing the United States through its Agencies and Officials in the Federal and State Courts throughout the United States. As senior civil litigating attorney worked primarily in commercial litigation and medical malpractice litigation. Agenda EEO... A Basic Understanding, Published for the Association For the Improvement of Minorities, March 1992 Are Government Employees Proper Qui Tam Plaintiffs? 14 JOURNAL OF LEGAL MEDICINE 1993 AIDS Crisis and the Health Care Community: Public Concerns Triggering Questionable Private Rights of Action for Emotional Harms and Legislative Response, 45 MERCER LAW REV. 633 (1994) Page 2 of 6

3 Inadvertent Disclosure of Attorney-Client Privileged Material: Putting the Horse Back in the Barn,69 FLA B. J. 57 (1995) The Yugoslav Tribunal and Deferral of National Prosecutions of War Criminals, ASIL INSIGHT, NO 13, OCTOBER 1996 The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: A Progress Report, THE IRISH LAW TIMES, Dublin, Ireland (October and November 1996) (Co-Authored with Liz Heffernan) Pleading and Disclosure of Damages in Federal Courts: No Cat and Mouse Game, FEDERAL DISCOVERY NEWS, VOL. 3 ISSUE 4 (MARCH 1997) After the Dusko Tadic War Crimes Trial: A Commentary on the Applicability of the Grave Breaches Provision of the 1949 Geneva Convention, 27 STETSON L. REV. 589 (1998) Counterclaims, Cross-Claims and Third Party Claims, Chapter 12. Vol 2, Federal Practice Guide: Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial - 11th Circuit American Inns of Court Series, LAWYERS COOPERATIVE Human Rights in Transition: Freedom From Fear, 6 WASHINGTON AND LEE RACE, ETHNIC AND ANCESTRY LAW JOURNAL 1 (2000) Assembly of States Parties Elects Eighteen Judges to the International Criminal Court, ASIL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS BULLETIN 2 (Spring 2003) Catching the Chameleon: When is the Treating Physician an Expert?, THE FEDERAL LAWYER, VOL. 51 NO. 4 (May 2004) (Co-Authored with Theodore "Ted" E. Karatinos). CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Guest Lecturer, Oxford University/George Washington University School of Law Summer Institute on International Human Rights Law (Jurisdictional Challenges Before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, July 1995) Guest Lecturer, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, (Stetson University School of Business Summer Institute) (New War Crimes Trials and the Rule of Law, July 1997) Page 3 of 6

4 Observer/Reporter, the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court Held June 15 - July 17, 1998, Rome, Italy Keynote Speaker, John M. Scheb American Inn of Court for Sarasota County, Florida ( The Yugoslav Tribunal and International Criminal Court Movement) (May 1999) Keynote Speaker, United Nations Association for Tampa Bay ( The Yugoslavia and Rwandan Tribunals and the International Criminal Court) (2002) and (2003) Non-Governmental Observer, Preparatory Commission Meetings on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, United Nations, New York City, New York(Jan 1999) TEACHING EXPERIENCE STETSON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW (1990- PRESENT) St Petersburg, Florida Professor of Law (1996- Present) Federal Pretrial Practice Federal Civil Procedure Federal Litigation Internship International Human Rights Law Law of International Tribunals STETSON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW SUMMER ABROAD PROGRAM DIRECTOR (The Hague, The Netherlands, Summer 2005) STETSON COLLEGE OF LAW FACULTY ADVISOR FOR AMERICAN- CARIBBEAN LAW INITIATIVE (2004-Present) STETSON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW TRIBUNAL PROJECT DIRECTOR (2004-Present) STETSON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW INTERNATIONAL FACULTY MEMBER, Summer Abroad Program, Tallinn, Estonia (July August 2001) (International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law) Page 4 of 6

5 WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY Lexington, Virginia Visiting Associate Professor of Law (Dec May 1996) Federal Civil Procedure Research and Writing SAMFORD UNIVERSITY, CUMBERLAND SCHOOL OF LAW Faculty Member of Council on Legal Educational Opportunity, Southern Regional Institute (June July1994) Birmingham, Alabama Legal Methods NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW National Institute of Trial Advocacy Faculty Florida Deposition Institute ( ) Fort Lauderdale, Florida Deposition Skills Training Institute RELEVANT GRADUATE COURSEWORK International Human Rights Law New College, Oxford University Oxford, England (June-July 1995) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND VOLUNTEER WORK Former Member of Merit Selection Panel for United States Magistrate, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida ( ) Non-Governmental Observer, National Bar Association, Establishment of the International Criminal Court Present Attended and reported on United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, (Rome, Italy 1998) Attendance at Preparatory Commission Meetings on the International Criminal Court (United Nations, New York City, New York ) Attendance at the Election of Judges for the International Criminal Court, (United Nations, New York City, New York 2003)) Hearing Officer, City of St. Petersburg, Florida (1999-Present) Page 5 of 6

6 PROFESSIONAL BAR MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS New Jersey ( since 1978) Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ( since 1983) National Bar Association 1990-Present American Bar Association 1990-Present Associate at Law, American College of Legal Medicine American Board of Forensic Examiners National Council of the Federal Bar Association National Membership Committee of the Federal Bar Association National Representative of the Tampa Bay Chapter of the Federal Bar Association 1999 Master of the Bench, John M. Scheb American Inn of Court for Sarasota County, Florida Executive Committee of the International Human Rights Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools 2003-Present Vice President of UN Affairs International Law Section of the National Bar Association Executive Committee of the International Law Section of the National Bar Association 2003-Present Executive Committee of the American-Caribbean Law Initiative 2004-Present PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES Honorable Gabrielle Kirk-McDonald, Judge of the Iran-US Claims Tribunal Iran-United States Claims Tribunal Parkweg JH The Hague The Netherlands Honorable Susan H. Black, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit, Jacksonville, Florida 300 N. Hogan St., Jacksonville, Florida USA Darby Dickerson, Dean, Stetson University College of Law st Street South, St Petersburg, Florida USA Bruce Jacob, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law st Street South, St Petersburg, Florida USA Whitney Schmidt, Chief of Affirmative Litigation, Office of the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa, Florida 400 N. Tampa Street, Suite 3200 Tampa, Florida USA Page 6 of 6