Cynthia Lee Starnes
Professor of Law
411 Law College Building
Michigan State University College of Law
East Lansing, MI 48824-1300
517/432-6899
starnesc@law.msu.edu
Degrees: LL.M., Columbia University School of Law, 1989; J.D., cum laude, Indiana University School of Law, 1983; B.S., with High Honors, Michigan State University, 1973
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Bar Admissions: Indiana
Courses: Commercial Transactions, Contracts I, Contracts II, Family Law I: Marriage & Divorce, Secured Transactions
Biography: Professor Starnes’s teaching and scholarship draw on her work as an attorney with the Women’s Legal Clinic in Indianapolis and on her graduate studies at Columbia University School of Law. Her writings appear in leading journals including the University of Chicago Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, and Iowa Law Review. Her critique of family law and proposals for reform have provoked widespread national commentary. Professor Starnes has presented her work at numerous conferences including Law and Society, the International Society of Family Law, the American Bar Association, and both national and state meetings of appellate judges. She has taught commercial law at the National Judicial College. Professor Starnes is co-chair of MSU Law’s Child and Family Advocacy certificate program and co-chair of the Family Law concentration. She teaches Commercial Transactions, Secured Transactions, Contracts, and Family Law.