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 Judy
M. Cornett
Associate Professor of Law
B.A., 1977, J.D., 1982, University of Tennessee
M.A., 1989, Ph.D., 1997, University of Virginia
Civil Procedure, Law and Literature, Legal Process, Legal Profession
Cornett@libra.law.utk.edu
Professor Cornett combines her legal knowledge with her love of English
literature. After receiving the J.D. degree from UT in 1982, Professor
Cornett was an adjunct member of the UT law faculty. Now a full-time faculty
member, Professor Cornett earned master’s and Ph.D. degrees in 18th-century
British law and literature from the University of Virginia. She has been
published in the William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law, and the
Tennessee and Cincinnati law reviews and is a member of the Modern Language
Association, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and
the American Society for Legal History. She served on the Tennessee Supreme
Court Commission on Gender Fairness and as co-chair of the Tennessee Supreme
Court Committee to Implement the Recommendations of the Racial and Ethnic
Fairness Commission and the Gender Fairness Commission.
Publications
Articles & Other Publications
Sound and Sense: A Text on Law and Literature (with Jerry J. Phillips)
(West 2003).
Book review, Clara Bingham & Laura Leedy Gansler, Class Action:
The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment
Law, 39 Tenn. B.J. 33 (March 2003).
Book review, Werner Sollors, ed., Interracialism: Black-White Intermarriage
in American History, 60 Miss. Qtrly
284 (Spring 2002).
The Legacy of Byrd v. Hall: Gossiping About Summary Judgment in Tennessee,69
Tenn. L. Rev.
175 (2001).
Hoodwink’d by Custom: The Exclusion of Women from Juries in Eighteenth-Century
English Law and Literature, 4 Will. & Mary
J. of Women and
the Law, (1997).
Annotation, Ann Radcliffe, The Italian, in Elizabeth Villiers Gemmette,
ed., Law in Literature:
An Annotated
Bibliography, previewed in 20 Legal
Studies Forum
421 (1996).
The Treachery of Perception: Evidence and Experience in Clarissa,
63, Cinn. L. Rev.
165 (1994).
Recent Professional Presentations and Service
"Archival Legal Research as a Subversive Feminist Strategy,"
paper, "Subversive Legacies: Learning from History/Constructing the
Future," University of Texas College of Law, Austin, Texas, November
2002.
"Assessing the Personal Essay in Professional School Admissions Implications
for Undergraduate Advising," Paper, Fifth National Writing Across the
Curriculum Conference, Indiana University, June 2001.
"The ‘Old Bachelor' of Polk County: Mythmaking in Legal Literary Discourse
in Antebellum East Tennessee," Faculty Forum, UT College of Law, July
2000.
"Practicing Lawyers: Drafting Documents in the Civil Procedure Class,"
Fourth National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Cornell University,
June 1999.
"The World We Are Making: Cultural Criticism of Modern Legal Fiction,"
Panel Organizer, First Annual Conference of the Working Group on Law,
Culture, and the Humanities, Georgetown Law Center, Washington, D.C.,
March 1998.
"Report on the Tennessee Supreme Court Commission on Gender Fairness,"
Invited Participant, Nashville, January 1998.
"Review and Update of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure," Invited
Speaker at CLE program, Chattanooga, January 1998.
Selected Achievements and Affiliations
Co-Chair, Implementation Committee, Tennessee Supreme Court Commissions
on Gender and Racial And Ethnic Fairness, 1998-2000.
Bass, Berry & Sims Award for Outstanding Service to the Bench and Bar,
2000.
Marilyn V. Yarbrough Faculty Award for Writing Excellence, 1998.
Member, Tennessee Supreme Court Commission on Gender Fairness, 1994-97.
Harold Warner Outstanding Teacher Award, 1996.
President’s Award, Knoxville Bar Association, 1993.
President’s Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1987-90.
Member, Tennessee Supreme Court Commission on Gender Fairness.
Member, Tennessee Bar Association Commission on Women and Minorities.
Works in Progress
Article, The ‘Old Bachelor' of Polk County: Mythmaking in Legal and
Literary Discourse in Antebellum East Tennessee.
Textbook, Professional Resonsibility in the Practice of Law (with
Carl A. Pierce)(West 2005).
August 19, 2003
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