Emma Coleman Jordan is best known for her work in the fields of financial services and civil rights. Before coming to Georgetown, she taught for twelve years at the University of California, Davis. She began her teaching career at Stanford Law School as a teaching fellow. She teaches courses in Torts, Financial Services and Commercial Law at the Law Center. She has been active in the financial services field, serving as chair of the Financial Institutions Committee of the California State Bar, drafter of the statute to regulate bank check holding practices, and co-counsel in class actions challenging bank stop-payment fee charges. Her article, "Ending the Floating Check Game" (1985), grew out of this involvement. She organized the Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services section of the AALS. She is a past-president of both the Association of American Law Schools and the Society of American Law Teachers. She was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 1984. Professor Jordan is no stranger to Washington; she was a law student here, serving as editor-in-chief of the Howard Law Journal and worked summers here at Covington & Burling and the State Department Legal Advisors Office. She was a White House Fellow in 1980-81, serving as special assistant to the Attorney General. She was counsel to Professor Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. Her recent writings include, Race, Gender and Power in America (with A. Hill, Oxford University Press, 1995), "A History Lesson, Reparations for What?", 58 New York Univ. Annual Survey of American Law (2003), and Lynching the Dark Metaphor of American Law (forthcoming).