Debra Moss Curtis
Professor of Lawcurtisd@nsu.law.nova.edu
Education
B.A., Tufts University,J.D., cum laude Boston College Law School,
Debra Moss Curtis became a full-time member of the faculty in 2001. Her current teaching focus is on Contracts, UCC: Secured Transactions and UCC: Sales. She also has taught Law Office Management Workshop, Introduction to the 4th Amendment in the online AAMPLE program, and Lawyering Skills and Values. She was promoted to Full Professor with tenure in 2008.
Most of her scholarship has been in the area of attorney ethics, lawyering skills, critical reading, and learning skills. Her most recent work is a "Legal Education at a Crossroads" a book examining curricular change in law schools nationwide. Her most recent law review article is a fifty-state survey on the Attorney Discipline process throughout the United States. In addition, other recent works examine the law school curriculum and how to apply traditional educational-based curriculum evaluation tools to its reform.
Before joining the law center to establish the Public Interest Law Center in 1995, she was in active small-firm practice in the State of Florida, working in the areas of family law, wills, probate, civil and commerical litigation, and appellate practice.
Professor Curtis is co-director of the Public Service Fellows Program at the law center. She is very active in the Florida Bar, chairing a subcommittee on the Florida Law Related Education Committee, and having served as an inaugural member and Past-Chair of the Standing Committee on Judicial Independence. In the past, she has served on the Advertising Task Force, The Student Education and Bar Committee and represented the law center on the Bar's Professionalism Committee. She also recently served as Reporter for the Hawkins Commission on Attorney Discipline.
Professor Curtis is also involved in community activities. She recently completed a two-year term as President of the Tufts Lawyers Association, a nationwide network of attorneys. She is a member of Justice Lewis' "Justice Teaches" program and a presenter in the Bar's "Benchmarks" program promoting adult civics education. She has contributed to editing a statewide voters guide regarding merit retention of judges. She also teaches Law Day activities to both elementary and middle school students in Palm Beach County.