Whittier College and Whittier Law School
Guide to the Experts
Expert Biographies
WAGNER,
JUDITH T.
Professor of Child
Development and Education
Director, Broadoaks Children's School
Phone: (562) 907-4973 or (562) 907-4250
* Children * Education * Families * Parenting * Teacher Education
Dr. Wagner is a
recent Fulbright research scholar and a popular speaker and workshop presenter
throughout the United States and Europe. She specializes in improving education
and family life through greater understanding of child development. She focuses
on learning and social development in the early childhood and elementary school
years. She holds credentials in preschool, elementary and secondary education,
and has taught at all levels, from preschool to university.
Since 1984, Dr. Wagner has directed the Broadoaks Children's School at Whittier
College, one of the nation's oldest and most respected demonstration schools.
She chaired the California Department of Education's Early Education
Coordinating Committee and the subcommittee on Developmentally Appropriate
Practices. She was a Rockefeller Scholar for advanced study of constructivist
approaches in preschool through sixth grade at the High/Scope Education Research
Foundation, and she has written many articles on education, child development
and family life for books, magazines and newspapers. Her current research
projects focus on ethnic identity development and its relationships to the
social experiences of majority and minority children. She also studies the
effects of catastrophes such as 9-11 upon children who are not directly
involved.
Dr. Wagner earned an M.A. in education from the University of Toledo, and a
Ph.D. in child development and teacher education from the University of
Pittsburgh.
WELKOWITZ, DAVID S.
Professor, Law
Phone: (714)444-4141, ext. 211
* Law
Welkowitz is on the faculty of the Center for Intellectual Property law. He is an
internationally known expert on trademark dilution. He is also an expert in civil
procedure, Constitutional law, federal courts and unfair trade practices. He holds a B.A.
from Princeton University and a J.D. from New York University.
WYLIE,
ROBERT SCOTT
Associate Dean for External Affairs
Whittier Law School
Phone: (714) 444.4141, ext. 110
rswylie@law.whittier.edu
* Children * Law * Ethics
In addition to being associate dean, Robert Scott Wylie is the John FitzRandolph
Director of Clinics at Whittier Law School. Dean Wylie is the immediate past
vice-president of the State Bar of California, a member of the board of its
charitable foundation, and the former chairperson of its legal services section.
Before joining the law school, he was executive director and general counsel for
the Public Law Center, the pro bono program of the Orange County Bar
Association, on whose board he also sits. Dean Wylie has extensive experience
working with all forms of the media and has published and lectured frequently on
issues involving children's rights, poverty law,
and legal ethics.
He received his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign.
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