Craig Christensen

Craig Christensen has a long and distinguished record in legal education. He is a past president of the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), one of the major legal education organizations, and has more than 30 years of teaching experience, including deanships at two law schools.

Following law school where he served as editor-in-chief of theNorthwestern University Law Review, Professor Christensen practiced law with the Chicago firm of Kirkland & Ellis and later served as executive assistant to the chairman and president of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company. He began his career in legal education as executive director of the National Institute for Education in Law and Poverty and lecturer at Northwestern University. In rapid ascent, he served as legal advisor to the president and associate professor of law at the University of Michigan, and accepted dean posts at the law schools of Cleveland State and Syracuse universities. Professor Christensen then served as president and executive director of LSAC for nearly five years followed by a year as visiting professor of law at Hastings College of Law. He was appointed to the Southwestern faculty in 1992. He became Professor of Law Emeritus in 2006.

Long active in the area of gay rights, Professor Christensen serves on the National Advisory Committee of the Law and Sexuality Journal. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the LAMBDA Legal Defense and Education Fund and the New York State Human Rights Political Action Committee, as well as a past chair of the State of New York's Task Force on Gay Issues, and founding chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Gay and Lesbian Issues. He has also served on the California Democratic Party State Central Committee and was a delegate to the 2000 Democratic National Convention.

Testimony on THE HEARINGS ON CIVIL RIGHTS ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1981, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR (1982)