JoAnne A. Epps is an American law professor, legal author, and former Executive Vice President and Provost of Temple University. Epps' primary areas of expertise include criminal procedure, evidence and trial advocacy. She teaches Litigation Basics, a required course for first-year law students at Temple. Named by National Jurist as one of the 25 most influential leaders in legal education, her commitment to curricular innovation and experiential legal education inspired the creation of the Stephen and Sandra Sheller Center for Social Justice at Temple Law School, which introduces students to the many roles that lawyers can play in securing access to civil justice. She has trained Sudanese lawyers representing victims of the Darfur crisis, and taught prosecutors for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. In 2009, she was named as a potential Barack Obama Supreme Court candidate. Before becoming Temple's Provost, she served as Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law from 2008-2016. Epps joined the Temple Law School as a faculty member in 1985 and then served as associate dean for Academic Affairs from 1989 to 2008. Prior to coming to Temple, Epps was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia and a Deputy City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles. Epps received a B.A. from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Publications (Books, Articles, Chapters) "Life Skills for Happy Lawyers" (Philadelphia Bar Association, Women in the Profession Newsletter), July 2011 "Passing on the Profession to Young Lawyers", 15 The Woman Advocate 4, 2010 Classical Rhetoric and the Modern Trial Lawyer, 36 Litigation 2, with Paul Mark Sandler & Ronald J. Waicukauski, 2010 "The 12 Secrets of Persuasive Argument", with Paul Mark Sandler & Ronald J. Waicukauski, American Bar Association, 2009 "Lawyers as Community Builders", The Pennsylvania Lawyer, October 2009 "A Tipping Point for Law Schools"? National Law Journal, July 20, 2009 "100 Vignettes for Improving Trial Evidence: Making and Meeting Objections" with Anthony Bocchino and David Sonenshein, , National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 2005 "Trial Evidence: Making And Meeting Objections" (book, videotape and teacher's manual) with D. Sonenshein & A. Bocchino, , National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 3rd edition: 2004; 2nd edition: 1990 "The Winning Argument", with P.M. Sandler & R.J. Waicukauski, American Bar Association, 2001 "LSATs Provide Narrow Gate into Legal Profession", 23 NAT'L L.J., August 28, 2000 "Ethos and the Art of Argument" - 26 Litigation 31, with