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lyt@case.edu
Mather House 309
Office phone (216) 368-2432
Home phone (216) 795-0257
Office Fax (216) 368-4681
J.D., magna cum laude, Case Western Reserve University, 1990; M.A.L.D., Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy, Tufts University, Diplome (M.A.) Institute of Advanced International Studies
(I.H.E.I.), University of Geneva, Switzerland, 1978; M.A. (international affairs),
Fletcher School, 1976; B.S.F.S, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Georgetown University, 1975.
Editor of Con todos y para el bien de todos: el pensamiento politico y
social de Jose Marti (2003), coeditor of Poetry
and Politics: Selected Poems of Heberto Padilla (1974), and author of Mujer
Martes (1977), Entero Lugar (1994), and
Intimo Color (2002).
Professor Tartakoff's interests center on poetry, constitutionalism,
democratization, and human rights. Her
essays have appeared in European Community,
La Tribune de Geneve, and Legal
Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. She has lived for extended periods of time in Europe and Latin America
and taught in Paris and Geneva. In Cleveland, she served as law clerk to
the Honorable Frank J. Battisti,
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and has taught American
constitutional law at Cleveland State University's Department of
Political Science.
At Case, where she is a member of the
Political Science Department since 1994, Professor Tartakoff has received the Teaching
Excellence Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 1997 and Top Prof
Awards in 1997, 1999, and 2002. Professor Tartakoff was awarded the Carl
F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2006. She was
chosen Professor of the Year in 2000 by Alpha Phi and was a Wittke Award
nominee in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2008, as well as a
nominee for the Bruce Jackson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring in
2003 and 2004. In 2005, Professor Tartakoff received the Undergraduate
Teaching Excellence Award.
Professor
Tartakoff has taught Law and Literature at Case School of Law. She
coached the Case teams in the Seiberling Constitutional Law Moot Court
Competition at the University of Akron Law School, where they won first prize in six of
its seven years.
She also served as advisor to the Case team chosen to participate in the 10th
francophone Jean-Pictet International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition
held in Malta in March 1998. In June 2009, in order to be entitled to
receive faculty benefits, Professor Tartakoff accepted the title of instructor.
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