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HARVEY PERLMAN
Chancellor
14th Year
Nebraska (1963)
Harvey Perlman was named the 19th Chancellor of the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln on April 1, 2001. He had served
as Interim Chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
since July 16, 2000.
A former dean of the University of Nebraska College of
Law (1983-98), Perlman has also served as interim senior vice
chancellor for academic affairs at UNL (1995-96).
A Nebraska native, Perlman was raised in York, and earned
a bachelor of arts in history and a juris doctorate from the
University of Nebraska. During his law school years, he was
editor in chief of the Nebraska Law Review and was elected to
the Order of the Coif, a law honors society.
He joined the NU law faculty in 1967 after spending a year
as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago
Law School. He served on the Nebraska law faculty until 1974
when he joined the faculty at the University of Virginia Law
School. He returned to Nebraska in 1983 when he accepted
the deanship of the Nebraska Law College, a post he held
until 1998 when he returned to the professoriate. He has
also served as a visiting professor at Florida State University
College of Law, the University of Puget Sound School of Law
and the University of Iowa College of Law.
In 2011, Perlman was named an Honorary University
Professor of Xi’an Jiaotong University, in Xi’an, China. This rare
lifetime appointment entitles Perlman to privileges at the university, with which UNL has many institutional ties. Perlman
also will occasionally lecture and teach at Xi’an Jiaotong University. The title is the highest honor the university awards to
a foreign scholar, and recognizes Perlman as an accomplished
scholar or professional of important international reputation.
The award also recognizes Perlman for his significant efforts
in globalizing UNL and Xi’an Jiaotong University through joint
research and partnership degree programs.
His area of legal expertise lies in torts and intellectual
property. He is a member of the Nebraska State and American
Bar Associations and is a Life Fellow of the American Bar
As sociation. Perlman is co-author of “Intellectual Property
and Unfair Competition” (5th edition, 1998) and co-reporter
for the American Law Institute’s “Restatement of Unfair
Competition” (1994). He serves on the Council of the American
Law Institute, a leading national law reform organization and
as one of Nebraska’s Commissioners of Uniform State Laws. He
previously served as a member of the NCAA Board of Directors
and is past chair of the Bowl Championship Series Presidential
Oversight Committee. He serves on the Board of Directors of
the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce and is Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the Nebraska Innovation Campus Development Corporation. He received the George Turner Award
from the Nebraska State Bar Association for contributions
to the legal profession and the Roger T. Larson Community
Builder Award from the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce.
Perlman and his wife, Susan, an NU alumna, are the
parents of two daughters. Anne, who earned degrees from
UNL and the University of Nebraska Medical Center, practices
medicine in Lincoln and is married to UNL alumnus David
Spinar; they have three children; Will, Ava, and Marco, Husker
fans all. Daughter Amie, who received bachelors and juris
doctorate degrees from UNL, is a Nebraska assistant attorney
general and is married to UNL alumnus Ron Larson; they are
the parents of Caleb and Finn.
JOSEPHINE POTUTO
Faculty Representative
17th Year
Douglass College (1967)
Josephine (Jo) R. Potuto, the Richard H. Larson Professor of
Constitutional Law, has been Nebraska’s faculty representative
(FAR) at the NCAA and conference level since May 15, 1997.
In 2002, Potuto was named Outstanding Faculty Athletics
Representative by the All-American Football Foundation.
From 2008-09 to 2011-12 she was president of the 1A FAR
(FARs from FBS institutions). Among her NCAA positions,
Potuto spent nine years (the maximum) on the NCAA Division
I Committee on Infractions (chair her last two years) and
currently substitutes when a member cannot serve. She was
one of three Big 12 Conference representatives on the NCAA
Division I Management Council, served on the NCAA Men’s
Gymnastics Championship Committee, and currently serves on
an NCAA-wide (all divisions) committee to advise NCAA staff
on student-athlete issues and educational programming for
coaches, staff, and student-athletes.
A sports law expert, Potuto regularly lectures and consults
on sports issues in general and NCAA processes in particular.
She is an expert witness in litigation involving sports issues. She
testified before the House Subcommittee on the Constitution
regarding due process in NCAA infractions hearings.
In the past year she has appeared in media reports in the
NY Times, LA Times, USA Today, Washington Post, CBSSports.
com, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, among others.
She has presented to the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate
Athletics, the Texas Commission of Higher Education, NCAA
regional conferences, law conferences and law firms, NACDA,
and to universities and law colleges, including the Universities
of Istanbul, Washington, Maryland, Oklahoma, Santa Clara,
Baltimore and Mississippi.
Potuto is a past adviser to the Uniform Law Commissioners
Committee to draft a sports agent statute, has drafted rules
governing search and seizure and hearings for the Nebraska
Racing Commission, and also has written on issues of gender
equity in college athletics. She has authored numerous articles
on sports law issues. She just completed an article on studentathlete use of their names/likenesses with an econometrician
and tax professor.
Potuto delivered the 2012 Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture.
She serves on the senate’s intercollegiate athletics committee.
She is a past member of the UNL academic senate and also
served on Nebraska’s NCAA site certification steering committee.
Potuto teaches constitutional law, procedure, federal
jurisdiction, and sports law. She has been a visiting professor of
law at the University of Arizona, Rutgers University, the Cardozo
College of Law at New York’s Yeshiva University, the University
of Oregon, the University of North Carolina, and Seton Hall
University. She has worked as an assistant prosecutor in both
the Essex and Morris County (N.J.) prosecutor’s offices.
Potuto was project director and a drafter of the Uniform
Law Commissioners Sentencing and Corrections Act, as well as
the drafter for the Nebraska Supreme Court Committee to Draft
Criminal Jury Instructions. She is the author of three books. She
was elected to membership in the American Law Institute, the
Nebraska State Bar Foundation, and the Douglass Society.
Potuto earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism at Rutgers’
Douglass College, and her master’s degree in English literature
at Seton Hall. She earned her juris doctorate at the Rutgers
Law College.
She is a member of the bars of Nebraska and New Jersey and
is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts
for Nebraska and New Jersey.
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