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Elizabeth Schiltz

Co-Director, Professor of Law, and Thomas J. Abood Research Scholar
Degree
J.D., Columbia Law School
B.A., Yale University
Office
MSL 453
Phone
(651) 962-4922
Toll Free
(800) 328-6819, Ext. 2-4922
Email
erschiltz@stthomas.edu
Mail
1000 LaSalle Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403
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Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Elizabeth R. Schiltz graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and received her juris doctor from Columbia Law School, where she served on the Columbia Law Review. After law school, she spent a year in Germany as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow. Schiltz was in private practice for nine years with law firms in Washington, D.C. (Morrison & Foerster) and Minneapolis, Minn. (Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly and Faegre & Benson), focusing on banking regulation, general corporate law and international law. Most recently, she practiced banking law at Faegre & Benson, Minnesota 's second largest law firm, where, among many other things, she assisted Dayton Hudson Corporation, Fingerhut Companies, Carson Pirie Scott, and other major retailers in obtaining charters for their credit card banks.

Schiltz was a member of the faculty of Notre Dame Law School from 1996 through 2000. She teaches classes in contracts, commercial law, and banking regulation. Her research interests include the relationship of federal and state law in regulating consumer credit, disability and consumer law theory, and feminist legal theory.  Schiltz received the 2007 Dean's Award for Outstanding Scholarship and was elected Professor of the Year by the graduating class of 2007. In 2014, she was recognized with the Good Sister Award by St. Thomas' University Advocates for Women and Equity.

Schiltz is co-director of the Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law and Public Policy and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Catholic Partnership on Disability. She is also a contributor to the Catholic legal theory blog Mirror of Justice. Schiltz is a 1998 graduate of the Partners in Policymaking Academy, a nationwide, state-based training program in disability advocacy.

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Learning Sales Law, with Carol Chomsky, Jennifer Martin, and Christina Kunz (West Academic Publishing, 2015)

Marie Failinger, Susan Stabile & Elizabeth R. Schiltz, Eds., Feminism, Law and Religion in Gender in Law, Culture and Society Series (Ashgate Press, 2013). [Read Aviva Richman's review here.]

CHAPTERS

The Promise and the Threat of the “Three” in Integral Complementarity, in Promise and Challenge: Catholic Women Reflect on Feminism, Complementarity and the Church, Mary Hasson, ed., Our Sunday Visitor (2015)

Elizabeth R. Schiltz, Finding Common Ground in the Disability Rights Critiques of Selective Abortions in Search of Common Ground on Abortion (Meredith Esser, Justin Murray, and Robin West, eds, Ashgate Press, 2014)

ARTICLES

Voting Rights for Persons with Cognitive Disabilities, (invited contribution to symposium on The ADA at 25:  The Continued Inequality of Americans with Disabilities,  U of St. Thomas L. J. (forthcoming 2016)

Exposing the Cracks in the Foundations of Disability Law, 75 J. L & CONTEMP. PROB. 23 (2012) (invited contribution to symposium on Theological Argument in Law: Engaging Stanley Hauerwas)

The Paradox of the Global and the Local in the Financial Crisis of 2008: Applying the Lessons of Caritas in Veritate to the Regulation of Consumer Credit in the United States and the European Union, 26 J. OF LAW & RELIGION 173 (2010) (peer-reviewed journal; invited contribution to symposium on The Global Economic Crisis, Law and the Religious Traditions)  

Damming Watters: Channeling the Power of Federal Preemption of State Consumer Banking Laws, 35 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 893 (2008)

West, MacIntyre and Wojtyła: Pope John Paul II’s Contribution to the Development of a Dependency-Based Theory of Justice, 45 J. OF CATH. L STUDIES 369 (2007) (invited contribution to symposium on The Jurisprudential Legacy of Pope John Paul II)

The Amazing, Elastic, Ever-Expanding Exportation Doctrine and its Effect on Predatory Lending Regulation, 88 MINN. L. REV. 518 (2004)

Elizabeth Schiltz Curriculum Vitae‌

Spring 2024 Courses

Spring 2024 Courses
Course - Section Title Days Time Location
LAWS 737 - 01 Special Education Clinic - T - R - - - 1330 - 1455

Days of Week:

- T - R - - -

Time of Day:

1330 - 1455

Location:

Course Registration Number:

22982 (View in ClassFinder)

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Andrea L. Jepsen, Elizabeth R. Schiltz

The Special Education Clinic will serve elementary and secondary students who have been identified as qualifying for special education services.  The students in the clinic will collaborate with various community partners to reach students and parents in communities that have historically been underserved in both special education and legal services. During this course, students will work with parents/students to provide legal training and ongoing support in the special education system so that the parents/students can become strong self-advocates. The course will cover training, analysis of individualized education plans, and, as appropriate, counseling on individual cases or group or class complaints. Prerequisite: Admission is by application.

Schedule Details

Location Time Day(s)
LAWS 950 - 28 Supervised Resrch & Writing - - - - - - - -

Days of Week:

- - - - - - -

Time of Day:

-

Location:

Course Registration Number:

22946 (View in ClassFinder)

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Elizabeth R. Schiltz

Under the supervision of a faculty member, a student may receive up to two hours of course credit for researching and writing a substantial paper on a topic of the student's own choosing. The student must receive the instructor's per- mission to enroll in this course and must meet periodically with the instructor for discussion, review and evaluation. Each faculty member may supervise the research of no more than five students each semester.

Schedule Details

Location Time Day(s)
LAWS 966 - 01 Clinic: Adv Spec Ed - - - - - - - -

Days of Week:

- - - - - - -

Time of Day:

-

Location:

Course Registration Number:

22985 (View in ClassFinder)

Credit Hours:

3 Credit Hours

Instructor:

Andrea L. Jepsen, Elizabeth R. Schiltz

A small number of students who have completed a semester in the Special Education Clinic may be asked to participate in the clinic practice for subsequent semesters by continuing client representation and providing assistance to new clinic students. The seminar portion of the course will focus on mentoring skills, client representation skills, and skills for training parents,  introduced in the initial semester of clinic, or additional teaching about special education law and practice, depending on the case load.  Variable 1-3 credits.  Satisfies requirements for experiential course. Prerequisite:  LAWS737, enrollment by permission only.

Schedule Details

Location Time Day(s)

Summer 2024 Courses

Summer 2024 Courses
Course - Section Title Days Time Location

Fall 2024 Courses

Fall 2024 Courses
Course - Section Title Days Time Location
LAWS 950 - 26 Supervised Resrch & Writing - - - - - - - -

Days of Week:

- - - - - - -

Time of Day:

-

Location:

Course Registration Number:

43174 (View in ClassFinder)

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Elizabeth R. Schiltz

Under the supervision of a faculty member, a student may receive up to two hours of course credit for researching and writing a substantial paper on a topic of the student's own choosing. The student must receive the instructor's per- mission to enroll in this course and must meet periodically with the instructor for discussion, review and evaluation. Each faculty member may supervise the research of no more than five students each semester.

Schedule Details

Location Time Day(s)
LAWS 966 - 01 Clinic: Adv Spec Ed - - - - - - - -

Days of Week:

- - - - - - -

Time of Day:

-

Location:

Course Registration Number:

43139 (View in ClassFinder)

Credit Hours:

Instructor:

Andrea L. Jepsen, Elizabeth R. Schiltz

A small number of students who have completed a semester in the Special Education Clinic may be asked to participate in the clinic practice for subsequent semesters by continuing client representation and providing assistance to new clinic students. The seminar portion of the course will focus on mentoring skills, client representation skills, and skills for training parents,  introduced in the initial semester of clinic, or additional teaching about special education law and practice, depending on the case load.  Variable 1-3 credits.  Satisfies requirements for experiential course. Prerequisite:  LAWS737, enrollment by permission only.

Schedule Details

Location Time Day(s)