Welcome to Florida Coastal School of Law

BACKGROUND

• Assistant/Associate Professor, Florida Coastal School of Law, 2004-present
• Instructor/Visiting Associate Professor, University of Idaho College of Law, 1996-2003
• Attorney, Helsell Fetterman LLP, Seattle, WA, 1993-1996
• Law Clerk, U.S. District Court for the E.D. Wash., 1988-1992

EXPERTISE

• Civil Procedure
• Legal Process
• Federal Courts and Litigation

EDUCATION

• J.D. With Honors in Law, University of Washington School of Law, 1988
• B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Business Administration (major: Accounting), University of Washington, 1983

TEACHING and SCHOLARSHIP

• Civil Procedure
• Legal Process
• Criminal Law

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

American Legal Process (publication forthcoming)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

The Legal System of the Republic of Palau, 2 Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia ch. 9(A) (Kenneth Robert Redden ed., 1991) (2004)

LAW REVIEW ARTICLES

• Should Summary Judgment Be Granted?, 58 AM. U. L. REV. ___ (2008) (forthcoming)
• Responding to Summary Judgment, 91 MARQ. L. REV. 815 (2008)
• A Summary Judgment Is Not a Dismissal!, 56 DRAKE L. REV. 1 (2007)
• May Stare Decisis Be Abrogated by Rule?, 67 OHIO ST. L.J. 645 (2006)
• The Retroactive and Prospective Application of Judicial Decisions, 26 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 811 (2003)
• Action Is an Action Is an Action Is an Action, 77 WASH. L. REV. 65 (2002)
• The Jurisdictional Limits of Federal Criminal Child Pornography Law, 21 U. HAW. L. REV. 73 (1999)
• Overruled by Implication (article in progress); On Deliberation (article in progress)