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Debra Moss Curtis
Professor of Law
Email:
curtisd@nsu.law.nova.edu
Phone: 954-262-6296
Education:
B.A., Tufts University,
J.D., cum laude Boston College Law School,
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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, which will be published in Winter 2010, xamines the law school curriculum and how to apply traditional curriculum tooks 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, serving as an inaugural member 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.
Professor Curtis is also involved in community activities. She is currently nationwide President of the Tufts Lawyers Association, a nationwide network of attorney; and sits on the Board of Directors for the West Boca Raton Softball Association. She is a member of Justice Lewis' Justice Teaches program and teaches Law Day activities to both elementary and middle school students in Palm Beach County.
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