ERIC G. ANDERSEN University of Iowa College of Law Iowa City, IA 52242 319-335-9090; eric-andersen@uiowa.edu LEGAL EDUCATION: J.D., J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, 1977 Class standing: Second in class of 150 J. Reuben Clark Scholar Three-year Stephen L. Richards Scholarship Articles Editor, Brigham Young University Law Review Editorial Board UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION: B.A. (summa cum laude) in History, Brigham Young University, 1974 David O. McKay Presidential Scholarship, four years Valedictorian for the College of Social Science Graduate of Brigham Young University Honors Program, with Highest Honors EMPLOYMENT: Professor, College of Law, University of Iowa, July 1988 - present Visiting Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon, Spring Semester 1990 Associate Professor, College of Law, University of Iowa, August 1984 - June 1988 Associate Attorney, Vinson & Elkins London Office, September 1980 - July 1984 Washington, D.C. Office, August 1979 - August 1980 Law Clerk to Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., United States Supreme Court, Summer 1978-Summer 1979 Law Clerk to Judge J. Clifford Wallace, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Fall 1977 - Summer 1978 Law Clerk for Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, San Diego, California, Summer 1977 Law Clerk for Vinson & Elkins, Washington, D.C., Summer 1976
Page 2 SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Associate Academic Dean, College of Law, January 1998 to December 2006, January 2008 to April 2011; Senior Associate Dean May 2011 to present Responsible for teaching assignments, course offerings, supervising the pretenure review process, post-tenure reviews, faculty awards, and other matters affecting faculty. Represent the dean at deans council meetings and other events as requested. Advise the dean on budget, salary, curriculum, and committee charges and membership, and other issues. Supervise or consult on management of Legal Analysis, Writing and Research faculty; secretarial support staff; IT staff, and the Writing Resource Center. Member, Iowa Law School Foundation Board, Fall 2006 - present; member of the board s 2008 capital campaign steering committee Vice-Chair, Law Dean Search Committee, April 2009-January 2010 Responsible for daily and strategic operations of the 15-member search committee that located and recommended the selection of the new dean for the College of Law Presiding Officer, Faculty Judicial Commission, August 2000 through July 2003 Managed independent, university-wide organization for adjudicating grievances by and against faculty involving denial of promotion and tenure, ethics violations, and infractions of university policy Member, University of Iowa Ida Beam Lecture Selection Committee, 1999-2001. Committee is responsible for the award of endowed lectureship from nominations submitted from the university community Served as chair of college s Faculty Appointments, Placement, Teaching Improvement, Curriculum, and Computer Committees; also served as member and, as associate dean, as ex officio member, of many other committees Principal drafter of College of Law policies on Accommodations for Students with Disabilities, and Peer Review of Untenured Faculty Members Teaching Member, University of Iowa Faculty Senate 1995-1998 Member, University of Iowa Faculty Judicial Commission, 1994-2000 Chaired panels hearing two contested denial of tenure cases; drafted panel s reports and recommendations in each case Member, Review Committee for University of Iowa Museum of Art, 2004-2005 Member, Search Committee for University of Iowa Chief Information Officer, 2004-2005
Page 3 Member, Division of Continuing Education Advisory Committee, 2005- present Fellow, CIC Academic Leadership Program, 2005-2006 PUBLICATIONS: Book Articles (With Steven J. Burton) CONTRACTUAL GOOD FAITH: FORMATION, PERFORMANCE, BREACH, ENFORCEMENT, Little, Brown & Co., 1995 (464 pages) 1996 Supplement to CONTRACTUAL GOOD FAITH (49 pages) Protecting Religious Liberty Through the Establishment Clause: The Case of the United Effort Plan Trust Litigation, 2008 UTAH LAW REVIEW 739. Religion and Social Welfare in the United Sates: The Case of Charitable Choice, 7 FAITH & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 11 (2009), published in Vietnamese in 1 RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW 69 (2008). Three Degrees of Promising, 2003 BYU L.Rev. 829. Children, Parents, and Non-parents: Protected Interests and Legal Standards, 1998 BYU L.Rev. 935. The Restoration Interest and Damages for Breach of Contract, 53 Maryland L.Rev. 1, 1994 (With Steven J. Burton), Intentions and Expectations in Contract Law, 75 IOWA L. REV. 861 (1990) A New Look at Material Breach in the Law of Contracts, 21 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 1073 (1988) Good Faith in the Enforcement of Contracts, 73 IOWA L. REV. 299 (1988) Comment, Status Offenses and the Status of Children's Rights: Do Children Have the Legal Right To Be Incorrigible? 1976 BYU L. REV. 659 (With Michael J. Henke), Current Issues Concerning DOE Regulation of Natural Gas Liquids, 31st OIL AND GAS INST. 27 (SW. LEGAL FND. 1980)
Page 4 LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS: Religious Organizations and Social Welfare: Key Issues in the United States, presented at Religion and the Rule of Law: Continuing the Conversation, sponsored by the Institute for Global Engagement, The Vietnam-USA Society, and the Vietnamese Institute of Religious Studies in Hanoi, Vietnam November 3-4, 2007. Participant in Constitutional Concepts of Marriage Debate, co-sponsored by the Federalist Society and The American Constitution Society, University of Iowa College of Law, February 26, 2004. Three Degrees of Promising, presented at LDS Perspectives on Law at BYU Law School, October 19, 2001. Moderator for panel of state and local public officials at form on Public Policy and the Family, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, November 19, 1995 Walking the Tightrope: A lawyer's Perspective on the Child Protective System, delivered at the 1995 Conference of the Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parents Association, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, April 1, 1995. "The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act and The Parental Kidnaping Prevention Act: A Road Map to Selected Issues," delivered at the Iowa Law School Continuing Legal Education Program, October 21, 1994 "A Remedial Perspective on Express Conditions and Material Breach", delivered at the Meeting of the Association of American Law School, Section on Contracts, January 1990. Lecture to psychiatry residents, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, on Constitutional issues in parental admission of children to mental institutions, Fall Semester 1989. "Professional Education and Goodwill as Marital Assets", delivered at the Iowa Law School Continuing Legal Education Program, November 4, 1988 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS, HONORS AND ACTIVITIES: Member of site visit team for the St. Thomas University School of Law application for AALS membership, February 2011 One of two faculty nominees from the College of Law for the Regents Award for Faculty Excellence at the University of Iowa, 2010.
Page 5 Nominated by the College of Law faculty for the Brody Award for Faculty Excellence at the University of Iowa, 2010. Member, The American Law Institute; active in members consultative groups for Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, and Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment. Member, Board of Visitors, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, 2003-2004 Chair, Section on Contracts, AALS (for 1992). Member, Executive Committee, Section on Contracts, AALS (for 1990). One of two nominees from the College of Law for the University of Iowa Teaching Excellence Award, Fall 1989, 1990. Member of the California State Bar Association (admitted December 21, 1977) and the District of Columbia Bar (admitted March 24, 1980) SUBJECTS TAUGHT: Contracts and Sales Transactions I and II; Family Law; Non-profit Organizations, Roman Law; Child Abuse and Neglect HOME ADDRESS: OFFICE ADDRESS: 8 Arbury Drive 470 BLB Iowa City, Iowa 52246 University of Iowa Telephone: (319) 354-0092 Iowa City, IA 52242 Telephone: (319) 335-9090 Fax: (319) 335-9098 E-mail: eric-andersen@uiowa.edu