Adrienne E. Volenik
Director of the Mental Disability Law Clinic, Clinical Professor of Law
Biographical Profile
Tel. (804) 289-8921
Fax (804) 287-6489
avolenik@richmond.edu
Acting Director, National Center for Family Law (Blog)
Courses Taught: Children and the Law
Education
J.D., University of Maryland (1974)
B.A., Marietta College Marietta, Ohio (1968)
Professional Experience
School of Law University of Richmond, VA
Director of the Mental Disability Law Clinic, Clinical Professor of Law, 2003 - present;
Director of the Mental Disability Law Clinic, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, 2000-2003;
Director of the Mental Disability Law Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, 1996-2000.
Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Advisor, Family/Children's Law,1996;
Visiting Professor of Legal Research and Writing, 1994-1996;
Coordinator Individuals with Disabilities Project Concentration, 1992-1995.
University of Maine Bangor, Maine
Adjunct Professor of Juvenile law in the Legal Technologies Program, 1990-1992.
American Bar Association, Washington, DC
Director Juvenile Justice Project, 1984-1985.
Howard & Volenik, St. Louis, MO
Attorney at Law (Partner), 1982-1983
General practice of law with emphasis on civil rights cases.
National Center for Youth Law, St. Louis, MO
Staff Attorney, 1974-1982.
Provided litigation assistance to legal services lawyers; served as co-counsel and amicus curiae in legal services litigation; taught juvenile law at St. Louis University School of Law; supervised third year law students in their representation of indigent persons and in their preparation of legal memoranda. Specialty areas: role of juvenile court personnel, delinquency proceedings, children in adult jails, abuse and neglect, educational rights of the handicapped, interstate custody disputes and parental kidnapping.
Special Project: Director of the Missouri Child Advocacy Project - a project to rewrite the internal rules of the Missouri Division of Youth Services.
Worcester County Board of Education, Snow Hill, MD
Teacher - Social Studies, Math, 1969-1971.
Bridgeport Board of Education, Bridgeport, CT
Teacher - Social Studies, 1968-1969.
Consulting Work
Silver Spring, MD Kansas City, MO, 1983-1984
Baltimore, Md, 1985-96
Provided research and technical assistance on juvenile justice and interstate custody issues, wrote appellate briefs for the Office of the Public Defender.
Consultant present
Provide research and technical assistance on juvenile, criminal, and family law issues. Co-Editor, Juvenile Justice Update, a bimonthly newsletter published by Civic Research Institute, Inc.
Publications
Books
Co-author, 1990 Supplement to Interstate Child Custody Disputes and Parental Kidnapping: Policy. Practice and Law (LSC 1990)
Co-author, Interstate Child Custody Disputes and Parental Kidnapping: Policy. Practice and Law (LSC/ABA 1982)
Co-author, Law and Tactics in Juvenile Cases, (Third edition, ALI/ABA 1977)
Co-author, Law and Tactics in Juvenile Cases, (Second edition, NJLC/NCYL 1974)
Newsletter
Co-Editor, Juvenile Justice Update
Monographs
Co-author, The New Right's Juvenile Crime & Justice Agenda for the States: A Legislator's
Briefing Book (AYWC 1987).
Sample Pleadings for Use in Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings (ABA 1986).
Checklists for Use in Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings (ABA 1985).
Articles
"Interstate Custody and Parental Kidnaping Cases: Using Discovery to Further the Case," written for the National Center on Missing and Exploited Children in 1988.
"The Right to Treatment," 3 Justice Systems Journal 292 (1978) (reprinted in Juveniles in Justice, H. Ted Rubin, ed. (Goodyear Publishing Co., Inc. 1980)
"Article V Returns Under the Interstate Compact on Juveniles," 10 Clearinghouse Review 350 (September 1976).
"Juvenile Court and Arrest Records," 9 Clearinghouse Review 169 (July 1975)
"Expungement of Arrest Records," 9 Clearinghouse Review 23 (May 1975)
"Notice in Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings," 8 Clearinghouse Review 776 (March 1975)
Bar Admissions
Virginia, Maine, Missouri, Maryland