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Candace Saari Kovacic-Fleischer taught at the Washington College of Law of American University from 1981 to 2016, with the exception of a visiting professorship at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law in 1988. She became a Professor, Emerita, in 2013. Professor Kovacic-Fleischer’s teaching at Washington College of Law was rewarded with the University Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1987 and the Part-time Student Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1994. Her fields of teaching and scholarship include Contracts, Remedies, Restitution, Sex-based Discrimination, and Work, Family and Inequality. In 2019 she published Work, Parenting and Inequality: Workplace Laws and Policies from 1898 to 2018 with Carolina Academic Press. In 2023 she co-authored Contemporary Remedies and Restitution with West Publishing.  She also co-authored Equitable Remedies, Restitution and Damages (West, 5th ed., 1994; 6th ed., 2000; 7th ed., 2005, 8th ed., 2011). The 7th and 8th edition won WCL’s Egon Guttman Casebook Award.

Three articles, “Litigating Against Employment Penalties for Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and Childcare,” in Villanova Law Review (1999), “United States v. Virginia’s New Gender Equal Protection Analysis with Ramifications for Pregnancy, Parenting, and Title VII,” in Vanderbilt Law Review (1997), and “Applying Restitution to Remedy a Discriminatory Denial of Partnership,” in Syracuse Law Review (1983), won Washington College of Law’s Pauline Ruyle Moore Scholar award for excellence in their year of publication. In addition, she has published a number of articles, including “Food Stamps, Unjust Enrichment and Minimum Wage,” 35 Law and Inequality, A Journal of Theory and Practice 1 (Winter 2017); “Remedies Reveals the ‘Seamless Web,’” 57 Saint Louis University Law Journal 651 (Spring 2013) and “Cohabitation and the Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment,” 68 Washington and Lee Law Review 1407 (Fall, 2011).

Professor Kovacic-Fleischer also contributed to The Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (2006), The Oxford Companion to American Law (2002), The Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (2000), and Matthew Bender’s Commercial Damages (1988, updated through 1996). She is a member of the American Law Institute and a member of its Consultative Groups for the Restatement of the Law, Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment; the Restatement of the Law, Employment Law; the Restatement of the Law, Third, Torts, Defamation and Privacy; and the Restatement of the Law, Third, Torts, Miscellaneous Provisions.  In the past, she served as a court appointed mediator for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Chair of the Remedies Section of the Association of American Law Schools.

Before joining the faculty of Washington College of Law, Professor Kovacic-Fleischer served as law clerk for The Honorable Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and for the Honorable James L. Oakes, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She practiced law in Washington, D.C. as an associate of Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering and of Cole and Groner. Her degrees are an A.B. from Wellesley College, and J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law. Prior to law school she worked as a consultant for Abt Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts.