Faculty & Administration
Faculty Members
Directory
Administrative Departments
Centers & Programs
Faculty & Adjuncts
Media Inquiries
 
 
 
Professor Patricia Leary

Professor Patricia Leary
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Law

714-444-4141 x242
pleary@law.whittier.edu

 

Education:
B.A., Valdosta State College;
J.D., Florida State University;
LL.M., Columbia University.


Profile:
Law Clerk, Hon. Alan Sundberg, Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court; Law Clerk, Hon. William Stafford, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida; Director, Legal Research and Writing, Florida State University; Director, Policy Studies Clinic, Florida State University; Associate Professor, Southwestern University School of Law.

Subjects:
Constitutional Law; Criminal Procedure; Real Property; Torts; Women and the Law.

Author:
Power to the People? A Critique of the Florida Supreme Courts Interpretation of the Referendum Power,
15 FLA. ST. U.L. REV. 673 (1987); Toward a State Constitutional Check on Police Discretion to Patrol the Fourth Amendment’s Outer Frontier, 69 TEMPLE L. REV. (1996).