Profile
Courses Taught: Torts; Products Liability; Constitutional Law
Publications
Articles
Filling the Fourth Circuit Vacancies, 89 North Carolina Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2011)
Judge Thompson and the Appellate Court Confirmation Process, 91 Boston University Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2011)
Diversity and the Federal Bench, 87 Washington University Law Review 1197 (2010)
A Fourth Circuit Photograph, 45 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1373 (2010).
Fourth Circuit Judicial Appointments, 61 S.C. L. Rev. 445 (2010)
Improving Federal Judicial Selection, 44 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1173 (2010)
Postpartisan Federal Judicial Selection, 51 Boston College Law Review 769 (2010)
Filling Federal Appellate Vacancies, 41 Arizona State Law Journal 829 (2009)
Resolving Amicus Curiae Motions in the Third Circuit and Beyond, 1 Drexel L. Rev. 125 (2009).
The Tragedy of the Commons: The Case of the Blue Crab, 19 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 73 (2009)
Unmasking Judicial Extremism, 43 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1175 (2009).
Dear President Bush: Leaving a Legacy on the Federal Bench, 42 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1041 (2008)
FDA Regulatory Compliance Reconsidered, 93 Cornell Law Review 1003 (2008)
Reconsidering Virginia Judicial Selection, 43 U. Rich. L. Rev. 37 (2008)
The Process Due Indefinitely Detained Citizens, 85 North Carolina Law Review 1687 (2007)
The Process Due Indefinitely Detained Citizens, 85 N.C. L. Rev. 1687 (2007).
Questioning Quirin, 97 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 365 (2006)
Fourth Circuit Publication Practices, 62 Washington & Lee Law Rev. 1733 (2005)
The Federal Appellate Court Appointments Conundrum, 2005 Utah Law Review 743
Biographical Information
Memberships
Member, American Law Institute (1994-present)
Member, Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group, United States District Court for the District of Montana (1994-present)
Reporter, National Conference on Appellate Justice (2005)
Legal Consultant, ABA Commission on the Twenty-First Century Judiciary (2002-2003)
Member, Study Committee to Review the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure (1999-2003)
Member, District Court Local Rules Review Committee, Ninth Circuit Judicial Council (1994-1997)
Reporter, Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government, Task Force on Science and Technology in Judicial and Regulatory Decision Making, Data Collection Discussion Group (1992)
Legal Consultant, Administrative Conference of the United States (1990-1995)
Director, Montana Natural Resources Clinic (Environmental Law Clinic under National Wildlife Federation auspices) (1980-1982)
Legal Consultant. Office of General Counsel, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (1976-1982 - Summers)
Counsel, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers, 1975
Counsel, Virginia Wetlands Study Commission and Virginia Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee, 1971 to 1972
Professional Experience
Williams Professor of Law (2004-Present)
University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, Va.
Visiting Williams Professor of Law (2003-04)
University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, Va.
Professor of Law (1998-2004)
William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Professor of Law (1975-1998)
University of Montana School of Law
General Civil Litigation and General Environmental Work (1972-1975)
Hunton and Williams, Richmond, Va.
Education
B.A., Duke University 1968
LL.B., University of Virginia 1972