B.A., Reed College (1967)
M.A., Psychology, University of Illinois (1969)
J.D., University of California, Berkeley (1973)
Professor Ellman’s principal scholarly interests are in Family Law,
and the use of social science in policymaking by legislatures and courts.
He served as Chief Reporter and the Justice Ammi Cutter Reporter of
the Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, published in 2002
by the American Law Institute, and is the senior author of a leading
text on family law used at more than 40 law schools. Among his current
projects are an empirical investigation into how people make judgments
about the level of child support payments they believe the law
should require an absent parent to pay, and a book for Oxford University
Press about the difficulties inherent in making family law policy. Professor Ellman is an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Child and Youth Policy at the University of California at Berkeley.
Following graduation from law school, Professor Ellman served as
a law clerk for Justice William O. Douglas of the United States Supreme
Court, a legislative aide to Senator Adlai Stevenson III, and a consultant
to the California legislature. He also practiced law in San Francisco.
Professor Ellman has been a member of the faculty at Arizona State
University Law School since 1978. He has
visited for a semester or more at the Hastings College of Law,
Brooklyn Law School,
the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, and
both the
Earl Warren Institute, and the Center for the Study of Law and Society,
at
U.C. Berkeley. In addition to his principal interests, Professor Ellman
has also written
on Nonprofit Corporations, Bioethics, and Health Care Financing. He
was a founding member of the Bioethics Committee of the Good Samaritan
Medical Center in Phoenix. He has served on a variety of statewide
committees dealing with various aspects of family law and policy, including
most recently a special committee of the standing Child Support Committee
of the Arizona legislature that recommended changes in the way state
child support guidelines are constructed.
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