2002-2003 Sullivan Lecturer
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DIANE P. WOOD
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Diane P. Wood was appointed to the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit by President William J. Clinton on June 30, 1995. Judge Wood was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, on July 4, 1950. She lived in Westfield, New Jersey, until the age of sixteen, when she moved to Houston, Texas. She attended the University of Texas for both college and law school, receiving her B.A. with highest honors and special honors in English in 1971, and her J.D. with high honors in 1975. Following her graduation from law school, Judge Wood clerked for Judge Irving Goldberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1975 Term, and for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court, 1976 Term. After a brief period at the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. State Department, she practiced at Covington & Burling from 1978 to 1980, where she had a wide-ranging litigation practice with particular emphasis on antitrust. In 1981, she was appointed to the University of Chicago Law School faculty, where she served as Associate Dean from 1989 through 1992. In 1990, she was named the Harold J. and Marion F. Green Chair in International Legal Studies, becoming the first woman at the Law School to be honored with a named chair. Immediately prior to joining the Court, Judge Wood was Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from September 1993 through July 1995, where she was responsible for appellate matters and international enforcement.
Judge Wood’s areas of scholarly interest include antitrust law, international trade and business, and federal civil procedure. She has published widely in all three areas. Representative works include the antitrust casebook Trade Regulation,with Milton Handler, Robert Pitofsky, and Harvey Goldschmid (4th ed. 1997); Merger Cases in the Real World: A Study of Merger Control Procedures (with Richard Whish, OECD 1994) (a study of transnational merger regulation); “‘Unfair’ Trade Injury: A Competition-Based Approach,” 41 Stanford L. Rev. 1153 (1989); and “Court-Annexed Arbitration: The Wrong Cure,” 1990 U. Chi. Legal Forum 421. In addition, she has presented papers for the World Trade Organization in Geneva, for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, and for many other audiences around the world. In June 1997, she presented a series of lectures in the People’s Republic of China on the subject of appellate courts and appellate review, to judges in Shanghai, Wuhan, and Beijing.
Judge Wood has also worked on law reform projects in the United States, particularly through the American Bar Association and the Brookings Institution Project on Civil Justice Reform. She was instrumental in developing the University of Chicago’s first policy on sexual harassment. Judge Wood is a member of the American Law Institute, the International Academy of Comparative Law, the American Society of International Law, and the American Bar Association. She has served on the governing councils of the ABA’s Section of Antitrust Law and its Section of International Law and Practice. Since joining the Court, she has continued to teach at The University of Chicago Law School as a Senior Lecturer. Her interests include playing the oboe and English horn (which she does with the Chicago Bar Symphony Orchestra) and foreign languages and literature. She has three children, Kathryn, David, and Jane, and lives in Hinsdale, Illinois.
