John F. Preis

Professor Jack Preis is an expert in civil rights litigation. He has published widely in the field and regularly represents victims of government abuse at the trial and appellate level, usually in cases involving police excessive force or mistreatment of incarcerated persons. While a law professor, Preis has argued before the United States Supreme Court, as well as the Fourth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits. His scholarship has appeared in the Virginia Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, and the Indiana Law Journal, among other venues.

Professor Preis teaches or has taught Torts, Civil Procedure, Legislation & Regulation, Federal Courts, Constitutional Torts, and Remedies. In addition, he teaches a course of his own design titled Civil Litigation Fundamentals. The course pulls together the most common strands of law and practice involved in civil litigation, including torts, contracts, jurisdiction, pleading, discovery, evidence, choice of law, motion practice, remedies, statutes of limitations, insurance law, enforcement of judgments, and appeals. The course is supported by comprehensive textbook written by Preis.

Preis obtained a B.S. from Cornell University where he studied Agricultural Economics. After working as a commodity trader for several years, Preis attended Vanderbilt University School of Law where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review.