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Evelyn A. Lewis

Contact Information

ealewis@ucdavis.edu
Rm. 2116 King Hall

Education

• B.A. English, University of North Carolina 1972, Phi Beta Kappa
  
• J.D., Harvard University 1975

Professor of Law

"There are few right answers in a profession governed by judicial opinions. Law school is a study in change, and confidence comes from coping with uncertainty," said Evelyn Lewis.

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"You're not simply trained to understand the substance of the rules, but also, and more importantly, to understand how those rules evolved and how changing circumstances can cause them to evolve further," she said.

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Special Interests

Selected Career Highlights

• Professor Lewis, formerly a Partner in the San Francisco law firm of Steinhart & Falconer, practiced law for almost 15 years, specializing in business transactions, before becoming a law professor at U. C. Davis in 1989. Since entering teaching Professor Lewis has taught a broad range of basic and upper-level law classes, including Property, Business Associations, Business Planning and Drafting, Nonprofit Organizations, Land Use Planning, Elder Law, and Trusts, Wills and Estates. Her special focuses in law include a desire to provide law students exposure to transactional drafting opportunities, drawing on her lengthy experience in this area from her years of practice.

Selected Publications

• When Entrepreneurs of Commercial Non-profits Divorce: Is it Anybody's Business? A Perspective on Individual "Property" Rights in Non-profits, 73 North Carolina L. Rev. 1761 (June 1995)(lead article-99 pages); Reprint in 38 Corporate Practice Commentator 129 (Spring 1996)
• Struggling with Quicksand: The Ins and Outs of Co-tenant Possession Value Liability and a Call for Default Rule Reform, 2 Wisconsin L. Rev. 331 (1994); Reprint in A Property Anthology, Second Edition. 234 (R. Chused ed., 1997)