Katherine L. Vaughns

Before joining the law faculty in 1984, Maryland Fellow Professor Katherine L. Vaughns was an assistant United States attorney for the Central District of California in the Civil Division. And over the years, she has belonged to a wide variety of professional groups, including the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar (in which she servedas the chair of the Section’s Committee on Diversity).

She previously was a member of the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, the LSAC Bar Passage Study Work Group, the AALS Committee on Bar Admission and Lawyer Performance, the ABA/AALS/LSAC Joint Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity, the Planning Committee for AALS, ABA Commission on Women in the Profession and ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Workshop on Taking Stock: Women of All Colors in Law School, the ABA Special Committee on Lawyers in Government, the California Committee of Bar Examiners and the Baltimore City Charter Revision Commission.

She presently serves as a member of the ABA Sections on Litigation (in which she served as the chair of the Subcommittee on Inter-circuit Conflicts) and Individual Rights and Responsibilities, the Baltimore City Bar Association (in which she served as a member of the Executive Council and co-chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee), and the Maryland State Bar Association (in which she served as a member of the Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Committee). Also, she currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees (or Directors) of the following non-profit organizations: Maryland Film Festival and Center Stage, Inc., (in which she is a member of the Executive Committee). Previously, she served as a trustee of the Baltimore Bar Foundation, Inc.

She currently teaches courses at the University of California, Berkley in the area of immigration law and a seminar on terrorism and the constitution. In the spring, she will teach a remedies course and a seminar on immigration law and policy in the twenty-first century. In the past, she has taught courses in the following areas: civil procedure, complex litigation, conflict of laws, a federal legislative process seminar on asylum law and policy, legal analysis, writing and research, legal methods-procedure, legal theory and practice in immigration law.

She has written and published articles in several subject areas but primarily in the area of immigration law and policy.