University of St. Thomas

Professor Schiltz's Curriculum Vitae
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J.D., Columbia Law School
B.A., Yale University

Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Elizabeth R. Schiltz graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and received her juris doctor from Columbia Law School, where she served on the Columbia Law Review. After law school, she spent a year in Germany as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow. Schiltz was in private practice for nine years with law firms in Washington, D.C. (Morrison & Foerster) and Minneapolis, Minn. (Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly and Faegre & Benson), focusing on banking regulation, general corporate law and international law. Most recently, she practiced banking law at Faegre & Benson, Minnesota 's second largest law firm, where, among many other things, she assisted Dayton Hudson Corporation, Fingerhut Companies, Carson Pirie Scott, and other major retailers in obtaining charters for their credit card banks.

Schiltz was a member of the faculty of Notre Dame Law School from 1996 through 2000. She teaches classes in contracts, commercial law, and banking regulation. Her research interests include the relationship of federal and state law in regulating consumer credit, disability and consumer law theory, and feminist legal theory.  Schiltz received the 2007 Dean's Award for Outstanding Scholarship and was elected Professor of the Year by the graduating class of 2007.

Schiltz is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Saint Paul Seminary, and Co-Director of the Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law and Public Policy.  She also serves on the Responsible Credit Partnership, an inter-industry initiative to promote responsible credit card lending and borrowing.  She is a member of the Siena Symposium, an inter-disciplinary group of University of St. Thomas professors exploring feminism from a Catholic perspective. She was a founding member and serves on the Executive Committee of the Conference of Catholic Legal Thought.  She is also a contributor to the Catholic legal theory blog Mirror of Justice.  Schiltz is a 1998 graduate of the Partners in Policymaking Academy, a nationwide, state-based training program in disability advocacy.

Representative Scholarship 

Dueling Vocations:  Managing the Tensions between our Private and Public Callings, in Women, Sex, and the Church:   A Pro-Woman defense of controversial catholic Teaching, Erika Bachiochi, ed., Pauline Press (forthcoming 2009)

Learning from Mary: The Feminine Vocation and American Law, 8 Ave Maria L. Rev. U, (2009) (forthcoming) (invited contribution to symposium Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Mulieris Dignitatem)

Damming Watters:  Channeling the Power of Federal Preemption of State Consumer Banking Laws, 35 Fla. St. L. Rev. 893 (2008)

Restructuring the Workplace to Accommodate Family Life:  Forward, 4 U. St. Thomas L.J.  (2008)

West, MacIntyre and Wojtya: Pope John Paul II’s Contribution to the Development of a Dependency-Based Theory of Justice, J. of Cath. L Studies 369 (2007) (invited contribution to symposium on The Jurisprudential Legacy of Pope John Paul II).

Motherhood and the Mission : What Catholic Law Schools Could Learn from Harvard about Women, 56 Cath. U.L. Rev. 405 (2007).

Should Bearing the Child Mean Bearing All the Cost? A Catholic Perspective on the Sacrifice of Motherhood and the Common Good, Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 15 (2007).

Selected Commercial Statutes and Selected Commercial Statues Abridged, 2006 and 2005 Eds., West Law School – Thomson West, (Advisory Panel, with Carol L. Chomsky, Christina L. Kunz, and Linda J. Rusch, advising West on selection and organization of commercial supplement).

What’s Your Score? Educating College Students about Credit Card Debt, with Kimberly Gartner, 24 St. Louis University Pub. Law Review 401 (2005) (symposium on Consequences of the Consumer Lending Revolution).

Living in the Shadow of Mönchberg: Prenatal Testing and Genetic Abortion, in The Cost of 'Choice': Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion, Erika Bachiochi, ed., Encounter Books (2004). Reprinted in Defiant Birth: Women Who Give Birth Against Medical Expectations , Melinda Reist, ed., Spinefex Press (2006). Translated into Spanish and published as Vivir bajo la sombra de Mönchberg, (Alicia Rivera, Inigo Barbancho and Roalia Baena trans.), 19 Cuad. Bioet. 595 (2008)

The Amazing, Elastic, Ever-Expanding Exportation Doctrine and Its Effect on Predatory Lending Regulation, 88 Minnesota Law Review 518 (2004).

Lending Limit Exercise, with Howell E. Jackson, for use in connection with Howell E. Jackson & Edward L. Symons, Jr., Regulation of Financial Institutions (1999).

The Inclusion of Future Members in Rule 23(b)(2) Class Actions, Note, 85 Columbia Law Review 397 (1985).

Courses Taught

Banking Law
Contracts
Credit & Payment Devices
Sales

Mailing Address

MSL 400
1000 LaSalle Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403-2015