Cheryl Preston
Edwin M. Thomas Professor of Law

424 JRCB
(801) 422-2312
prestonc@lawgate.byu.edu



Vitae and Curriculum


EDUCATION

J.D. Brigham Young University 1979
Magna Cum Laude
J. Reuben Clark Scholar (Order of the Coif)
Articles Editor, BYU Law Review

B.A. Brigham Young University 1975, English Major
Summa Cum Laude, High Honors

EMPLOYMENT

J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University (1989 - ).

S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah - Visiting Professor (2007).

First Interstate Bank, N.A., Salt Lake City - Vice President, Senior Counsel (1987 - 1989)

Holme Roberts & Owen, Salt Lake City - Associate (1984 - 1987)

O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles - Associate (1981 - 1983)

Hon. Monroe G. McKay, Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals - Law Clerk (1979 -1980)

TEACHING SUBJECTS

Contracts
Business Associations
Internet Regulation
Jurisprudence
Social Policy and Feminist Legal Thought
Race Relations and Law
Commercial Paper and Payment Systems
Advanced Contract Drafting

SELECT PUBLICATIONS



Articles

All Knowledge is Not Equal: Facilitating Children’s Access to Knowledge by Making the Internet Safer, 13 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS LAW AND POLICY (2009 – forthcoming).

Internet Porn, ICANN, and Families: A Call to Action, JOURNAL OF INTERNET LAW (OCT.-NOV. 2008), at 3 -15, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1285270.

Internet and Pornography: What If Congress and the Supreme Court Had Been Comprised of Techies in 1995-97?, 2008 MICHIGAN STATE LAW REVIEW 61-102 (Fourth Annual Intellectual Property and Communications Law Program Issue), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1147142.

ICANN Can: Contracts and Porn Sites: Or Choosing to Play Internet Ball in American Cyberspace, 21 PACIFIC MCGEORGE GLOBAL BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT LAW JOURNAL 79-110 (2008) (ICANN Symposium Issue) (with Brent A. Little); available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1146646, included in the INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM, SYNTHESIS PAPER for the Rio de Janeiro 2007 Second Meeting 10 (Oct. 2007), available at http://www.intgovforum.org/Rio_Meeting/IGF.SynthesisPaper.24.09.2007.rtf; (an earlier draft of the paper is available on the IGF website at http://intgovforum.org/Substantive_2nd_IGF/Cheryl%20Preston_ICANN%20Can_Contracts%20and%20Porn%20Sites.pdf).

Making a Family-friendly Internet a Reality: The Internet Community Ports Act, 2007 B.Y.U. Law Review 1471-1531 (Kids Online Symposium Issue) (Jan. 2008), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1146651.

Zoning the Internet: A New Approach to Protecting Children Online, 2007 B.Y.U. Law Review 1417-1467 (Kids Online Symposium Issue) (Jan. 2008), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1147163. Selected for inclusion in the University of La Verne Law Review’s Selective Bibliographic Index of Juvenile Law
Publications, 30 U. LA VERNE L. REV. 216 (2007-2008).

WiFi in Utah: Legal and Social Issues, UTAH BAR JOURNAL, Sept. & Oct. 2007, at 29-37, available at http://webster.utahbar.org/barjournal/2007/09/wifi_in_utah_legal_and_social.html#more, and http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1148446.

The Canon, Lawmakers and the Right to Interpret in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 6 DAIMON: ANNUARIO DI DIRITTO COMPARATO DELLE RELIGIONI 115-160 (Dec. 2006).

Subordinated Stills: An Empirical Study of Sexist Print Advertising and its Implications for Law, 15 TEXAS JOURNAL OF WOMEN & LAW 229-269 (2006).

An Itty Bitty Immunity and its Consequences for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: A Response to Professors Lupu and Tuttle, 2004 B.Y.U. Law Review 1945-94 (Church and State Symposium Issue) (2004).

Women in Traditional Religions: Refusing to Let Patriarchy (or Feminism) Separate Us from the Source of Our Liberation, 22 MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 185-214 (2003) (Law and Religion Symposium Issue) (2003).

Baby Spice: Lost between Feminine and Feminist, 9 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF GENDER, SOCIAL POLICY & LAW 541-619 (2001).

A Job to Die For – Confronting Workplace Violence 7 UTAH LABOR LETTER, July, 1999, at 6-8 (with Stanley J. Preston).

Significant Bits and Pieces: Learning from Fashion Magazines about Violence Against Women, 9 UCLA WOMEN’S LAW JOURNAL 1-97 (1998).

Consuming Sexism: Pornography Suppression in the Larger Context of Commercial Images, 31 GEORGIA LAW REVIEW 771-852 (1997).

It Moves, Even If We Don’t: A Reply to Arthur Austin, “The Top Ten Politically Correct Law Reviews,” 63 TENNESSEE LAW REVIEW 735-51 (1996).

This Old House: A Blueprint for Constructive Feminism, 83 GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL 2271-2346 (1995).

Privacy and Defamation Law Bibliography by Topic (1990 - 1995), AALS PRIVACY AND DEFAMATION SECTION NEWSLETTER, (Sept. 1995, Nov. 1995, & Nov. 1996).

Joining Traditional Values and Feminist Legal Scholarship, 43 JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION 511-47 (1993).

Feminism and Faith: Reflections on the Mormon Heavenly Mother, 2 TEXAS JOURNAL OF WOMEN & LAW 337-86 (1993).

Honor Among Bankers: Ethics in the Exchange of Commercial Credit Information and the Protection of Customer Interests, 40 KANSAS LAW REVIEW 943-1009 (1992); reprinted in VII BANKING LAW ANTHOLOGY (International Library Pub., 1993).

FEDERAL ESTATE TAX: A Possible Exception in the Application of I.R.C. Section 2041 to Testamentary Powers of Appointment Held by Incompetent Decedents, 1977 B.Y.U. LAW REVIEW 644-660 (1977).

Book Chapters

Exporting the Fractured Female: Globalization and American Advertising, in FAMILY LAW: BALANCING INTERESTS AND PURSUING PRIORITIES 114-125 (Lynn D. Wardle & Camille S. Williams, eds. 2007) (Book chapter).

Film

Fashioning Women in Law: How Images in our Society Reflect and Shape Perceptions of Female Attorneys, Witnesses, and Litigants (Film, 2003: Brigham Young University)

Other Materials

Zoning to Protect Children (Invited Article), thinkerNet: A Moderated Blogosphere of Internet Experts, published by internet evolution (Apr. 17, 2008),
http://www.internetevolution.com/messages.asp?piddl_msgthreadid=188002&piddl_msgid=156973#msg_156973.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet).
American Law Institute.
Order of the Coif.
American Bar Association, Utah State Bar, California Bar Association.

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

2007 Distinguished Research Award and 2006 Creative Work Award, Women’s Research Institute, BYU (2007) (includes research grants).

Chris Award Recipient (for FASHIONING WOMEN IN LAW), Columbus International Film and Video Festival, 2003, (best film in the education category).

Honorary Inductee, The International Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi (1998 - ).

Invited participant, Mills College Summit on Women in Legal Education (1997).

SELECTED COMMUNITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Essay Judge, NAWL Selma Moidel Student Writing Competition (2007- )

Member, Non-commercial Users Constituency of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, ICANN (as representative for CP80.org Foundation) (2007 - ).

Chair, Board of Advisors, CP80 Internet Channel Initiative (2005 - ).

Article Reviewer, JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION (2005).

Member, BYU STUDIES Academy (2005 - ).

Member of the Consultative Group, American Law Institute, Principles of the Law of Software Contracts (2005).

ABA Site Inspection Team, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University (2004).

President, Association of American Law Schools, Section on Law and Religion (2004).

Member, Association of American Law Schools, Committee on Research and Curriculum (2004 – 2005).

President, Association of American Law Schools, Section on Privacy and Defamation (1996).

REPRESENTATIVE PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES

Internet Governance and Gendere, Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Field in Construction, GigaNet, University Paris III – Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Institut du Monde Anglophone, Paris (June 2008).

Internet and Pornography: What If Congress and the Supreme Court Had Been Tech Savvy in 1995, “What Ifs,” The Fourth Annual Intellectual Property Conference, Michigan State University College of Law (Mar. 30-31, 2007).

Ethics and a Duty to the Community: Being Part of the Solution to the Internet Pornography Problem, The Technology Responsibility and Ethics Conference (TREC), Brigham Young University’s Rollins Center for eBusiness (Mar. 16, 2007).

ICANN Can and Must and Borderless Internet and Burgeoning Pornography, I THINK I CAN, I THINK
ICANN: REGULATING THE INTERNET . . . OR NOT, The Center for Global Business and Development’s Institute for Development of Legal Infrastructure, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (Feb. 23-24, 2007).

Internet Autonomy and Intimacy, Virtual Women: Emerging Issues in Gender and Intellectual Property Law, Seventh Annual Women and the Law Conference, Thomas Jefferson School of Law (Feb. 9, 2007).

Code Leading Law, Warning! Kids Online: Pornography Free Speech and the Internet, Brigham Young University Law School (Feb. 1-2, 2007) (co-Sponsor with the B.Y.U. Law Review and Presenter).

Children, Cyberporn, and Free Speech, Hinckley Institute of Politics, University of Utah (Apr. 2006).

Subordinated Stills: A Comparison of Women and Men in Print Advertising and its
Relevance to the Status of Women in the Profession
, Feminism and Legal Theory Project, Emory University (June 2005).

The Fractured Female in Advertising and the Rise of Global Consumerism, International Society of Family Law 12th World Conference, Salt Lake City (Jul. 2005).

Clergy and the Sex Abuse Scandal, BYU Conference on Church and State, Provo, UT (Feb. 2004).

Women in Traditional Religions, AALS Annual Meeting, Law and Religion Section, Washington, D.C. (Jan. 2003).

Fashioning Women in Law: Reflections on Women in the Profession and Women in Advertising, Joint AALS, ABA Commission on Women in the Profession and ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Workshop on Taking Stock: Women of All Colors in Law School, New York (June 2003).