B.A., Reed College (1967)
M.A., Psychology, University of Illinois (1969)
J.D., University of California, Berkeley (1973)
Professor Ellman’s spent the largest part of his career studying Family Law.
He served as Chief Reporter and the Justice Ammi Cutter Reporter of
the Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, published in 2002
by the American Law Institute, and is the senior author of a leading
text on family law. His most recent work in family law focused on an empirical investigation into people's judgments about the obligations the law should require of famiily members to one another,done in collabotation with social psychologists, work that was extended to the United Kingdom in collaborations established while Professor Ellman was a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge in 2013. That work was collected in his most recent book, When Laws Seem Fair. More recently, his scholarly work has returned to his earlier interest in health care law, and pursued a new interest, also interdicplinary, in the legal policy applied to individuals convicted of sexual offenses, and especially to the legal implications of empircal studies of the efficacy and impact of sexual offender registries.
Following graduation from law school, Professor Ellman served as
a law clerk for Justice William O. Douglas of the United States Supreme
Court, a legislative aide to Senator Adlai Stevenson III, and a consultant
to the California legislature. He also practiced law in San Francisco.
Professor Ellman was member of the faculty at Arizona State
University Law School from 1978 to his retirement in 2016. During those years he had visiting appointments for a semester or more at the Hastings College of Law,
Brooklyn Law School,
the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, and
both the
Earl Warren Institute, and the Center for the Study of Law and Society,
at
U.C. Berkeley, and at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.
Professor Ellman has been active in public policy areas connected to his scholarly interests. He
was a founding member of the Bioethics Committee of the Good Samaritan
Medical Center in Phoenix and served on a variety of statewide
committees dealing with various aspects of family law and policy. More recently, he has authored or coauthored amicus briefs on behalf of social scientists in cases concerning sexual offender registries.
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