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Harvey
Perlman, J.D.
Chancellor | Nebraska (1963) | 13th Year
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.
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
Association. 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 Quinn.
Josephine
Potuto, J.D.
Faculty Representative | Douglass College (1967) | 17th Year
Josephine (Jo) R. Potuto, the Richard H.
Larson Professor of Constitutional Law, has been
Nebraska’s faculty representative (FAR) to the
NCAA and conference level since May 15, 1997.
For the past three years, Potuto has
been president of the 1A FAR (FARs from
FBS institutions). In 2002, she was named
Outstanding Faculty Athletics Representative by
the All-American Football Foundation.
Potuto spent nine years (the maximum) on
the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions
(chair her last two years) and currently
substitutes on the Committee when a member
cannot serve. She is a past Big 12 Conference
representative on the NC A A 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.
Potuto is an expert on NCAA enforcement and
infractions processes as well as the general NCAA
committee structure. She has testified before
the House Subcommittee on the Constitution
regarding due process in NCAA infractions
hearings and has made presentations to the
Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.
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.
At Nebraska, Potuto is a member of the
academic senate as well as the senate’s
intercollegiate athletics committee. She also
served on Nebraska’s NCAA site certification
steering committee.
Potuto teaches constitutional law, procedural
and criminal law, 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 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 and numerous articles. She also is
a member of the American Law Ins ѥ