Andrea Charlow Profile

Professor Emeritus

515-271-2066
andrea.charlow@drake.edu

Areas of Expertise

Family Law, Juvenile Law, Negotiations and Mediation

Education

LLM – Columbia University School of Law
JD – Albany Law School of Union University, Albany Law Review
AB – Vassar College, cum laude

Professional Experience

Drake Law School professor since 1982
Hancock, Estabrook, Ryan, Shove & Hust in Syracuse, N.Y.
Chamberlain Fellow at Columbia University School of Law

Selected Publications

• There's No Place Like Home: Temporary Absences in the UCCJEA Home State, 28 Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 25 (2015).
• Race, Poverty, & Neglect, 28 William Mitchell Law Review 763 (2001).
• Jurisdictional Gerrymandering & The Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act, 25 Family Law Quarterly 299 (1991).
• Awarding Child Custody: The Best Interests of the Child and Other Fictions, 5 Yale Review of Law & Social Policy 261 (1987).

Significant Accomplishments

• Interviewed on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered"
• CALI (Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) author
• Co-Chair - Iowa Supreme Court Family Law Task Force Alimony Guidelines commitee
• Steering Committee - Iowa Supreme Court Family Law Task Force
• Past chair of the Governor's Advisory Committee on Child Support Enforcement
• Past member of the Board of Directors for the Iowa Legal Services Corporation
• Frequent presenter on issues of family law