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PROFESSOR PAULA G. WALTER
Professor, Law Department, Baruch College
Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Business, 1995
EDUCATION
J.D., McGill University
B.C.L. (Bachelor of Civil Law), McGill University
B.A., (History & Political Science), McGill University
SELECTED ACTIVITIES AT BARUCH
Courses Taught
Graduate: Law 9213 - Developed curriculum & syllabus
Undergraduate:Law 1101, Law 1101H, Law 3102
Committees
Member, Zicklin School of Business, Executive Committee
Member, Law Department, Executive Committee
Member & Chair, Student Faculty Disciplinary Committee
Member, College Academic Review Committee
Member, Sexual Harassment, Education Committee
Member, Honors Thesis Committee
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
Member, Committee on Academic Standing
Member, Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Deputy Chair, Prelaw Advisor
RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
Health Law, particularly the law of informed consent
Papers in Professional
Journals
His, Hers, or Theirs? - Custody, Control & Contracts - Allocating Decisional
Authority Over Frozen Embryos, 1999 Seton Health Law Review, 937-969
The Doctrine of Informed Consent: A Tale of Two Cultures and Two Legal Traditions, 1999 Issues in Law & Medicine, 357-373
The Mentally Incompetent and Medical/Drug Research Experimentation, New York Courts Save the Day For the Underdog, 6 Health Law Journal, 149-168 (1998), Health Law Institute, University of Alberta
The Doctrine of Informed Consent: To Inform or Not to Inform, 71 St. John's Law Review, 543-590 (1997)
Corporate Pro-Choice: New York Assumes An Anti-Takeover Position, 1991 Touro Law Review, 585-614
New York's Revised Statutory Indemnification & Insurance Provisions for Corporate Directors - To What End?, 38 Drake Law Review, 241-260 (1989)
The Directors' Business Judgment Rule - The Final Act?, 22 Suffolk University Law Review, 649-686 (1989)
The Rise and Fall of U.C.C. section 1-207 and the Full Payment Check - Checkmate? 21 Loyola of Los Angles Law Review, 81-106 (1987)
The Commercial Impracticability Defense - The Emperor's New Clothes in the Law of Contracts, 61 St. John's Law Review, 225-260 (1987)
Employee Restrictive Covenants: To Restrain or Not to Restrain? 91 Commercial Law Journal, 321-351 (1986)
Textbooks
Business Contracts Law, Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, Needham Heights, MA, 2nd ed. 1996, 1st ed., 1994
Chapters 3 and 4 in Successful
Model Business Contracts and Agreements, Weka-Publishing Inc., New York 1988