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Name:Marvin Ammori
Title:Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Address:264 LAW UNL 68583-0902
Phone:(402)472-2161
E-Mail:mammori2@unl.edu
 
 

Courses

  • Domestic Telecommunications Law
  • International Telecommunications Law
  • Cyberlaw
  • Mass Media and the First Amendment

Appointments

  • Adjunct Professor of Law, 2007
  • Assistant Professor of Law, 2008
  • Space & Telecommunications Law Initiative

Articles

  • Another Worthy Tradition: How the Free Speech Curriculum Ignores Electronic Media and Distorts Free Speech Doctrine, 59 Mo. L. Rev. 70 (2005)
  • A Shadow Government: Private Regulation, Free Speech, and Lessons from the Sinclair Blogstorm, 12 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech L. Rev. 1 (2005)
  • Public Opinion and Freedom of Speech, Knight Foundation White Paper (2006)

Education

  • J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School
  • B.A., with Honors, University of Michigan

After law school, Professor Ammori practiced at a corporate law firm in Chicago, primarily litigating intellectual property disputes. Subsequently, he held a research fellowship at Yale Law School, with its Information Society Project. He then served for two years as a Staff Attorney at the Institute for Public Representation, a public interest law clinic at Georgetown University Law Center that handles significant legal matters of broad public importance. Professor Ammori handled matters involving free speech and media regulation before appellate courts, the Federal Communications Commission, and Congress, including the leading public policy debates in media policy, including broadcast ownership limits, network neutrality, children's media rules, and other rules. He is spending the 2007-2008 year as General Counsel of Free Press, the nation's leading media reform organization, working on several campaigns concerning open internet initiatives, wireless policy, and access for all Americans to high-speed internet.

His scholarly research focuses on how communications, information, and media policies affect the distribution of political power and whether they serve or fail to serve the values underlying freedom of speech and press protections.

Name:Eric Berger
Title:Assistant Professor of Law
Address:265 LAW UNL 68583-0902
Phone:(402)472-1251
E-Mail:eberger2@unl.edu
 
 

Courses

  • Constitutional Law I
  • Constitutional Law II
  • Legal History: American Constitutional History

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Law, 2007

Articles

  • The Collision of the Takings and State Sovereign Immunity Doctrines, 63 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 493 (2006)
  • Note: The Right to Education Under the South African Constitution, 103 Colum. L. Rev. 614 (2003)

Education

  • B.A., with Honors, Brown University (1995)
  • J.D., Columbia University School of Law (2003)

Professor Eric Berger joined the faculty in 2007. He received his B.A. with Honors in History from Brown University, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Kent Scholar and an Articles Editor on the Columbia Law Review. After law school, Professor Berger clerked for the Honorable Merrick B. Garland on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He then practiced in Jenner & Block's Washington, D.C. office, where he worked on litigation in several state and federal trial and appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court. Professor Berger's matters there included cases involving lethal injection, gay marriage, the detention of foreign nationals at Guantanamo Bay, and internet obscenity.

Professor Berger teaches Constitutional Law I, Constitutional Law II, and Legal History: American Consitutional History. In 2008, he was voted Professor of the Year by the upperclass law students.

Professor Berger's scholarly interests include constitutional law and federal courts, with a focus on domestic and foreign courts' discretion to remedy constitutional violations.

Name:C. Steven Bradford
Title:Earl Dunlap Distinguished Professor of Law
Address:216 LAW UNL 68583-0902
Phone:(402)472-1241
E-Mail:sbradford1@unl.edu
 
 

Homepage: http://www.unl.edu/bradford/web.htm

Courses

  • Accounting for Lawyers
  • Securities Regulation
  • Investment Companies and Investment Advisors
  • Corporations
  • Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Law, 1987
  • Associate Professor of Law, 1991
  • Professor of Law, 1995
  • Cline Williams Professor of Law, 1999
  • Earl Dunlap Distinguished Professor of Law, 2002
  • 2005-06 Hevelone Research Chair

Books

  • Basic Accounting Principles for Lawyers: With Present Value and Expected Value (with Gary Adna Ames) (1996)
  • Nebraska 'How-To' Practice Manual (editor), Vols. 3-4 (Business Organizations) (2d ed. 1996)

Articles

  • Does Size Matter?: An Economic Analysis of Small Business Exemptions from Regulation, 8 J. Small and Emerging Bus. L. 1 (2004)
  • The Cost of Regulatory Exemptions, 72 UMKC L. Review. 857 (2004)
  • Securities Regulation and Small Business: Rule 504 and the Case for an Unconditional Exemption, 5 J. Small and Emerging Bus. L. 1 (2001), reprinted in Securities and Exchange Commission, Twentieth Annual Government-Business Forum On Small Business Capital Formation: Program Materials (Sept. 6-7, 2001), and to be reprinted in Securities L. Review
  • Expanding the Non-Transactional Revolution: A New Approach to Securities Registration Exemptions, 50 Emory Law Review 437 (2000)

Education

  • J.D., magna cum laude, 1982, Harvard Law School
  • M.P.P. 1982, Harvard University
  • B.S., summa cum laude, 1978, Utah State University

Professor Bradford joined the faculty in 1987. He received his B.S. degree (summa cum laude) from Utah State University in 1978; an M.P.P. from Harvard University in 1982; and a J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard University in 1982. From 1982 to 1986, he worked for the law firm of Jenkens & Gilchrist in Dallas, Texas and, during the 1986-87 academic year, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University.

Professor Bradford teaches Corporations, Securities Regulation, Investment Companies, Accounting for Lawyers, and Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions. He is the author of an introductory book on accounting, Basic Accounting Principles for Lawyers. He has also authored several CALI lessons on aspects of the law of business organizations. Professor Bradford is a member of the editorial boards of the Villanova Journal of Law and Investment Management and the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) and is also a member of CALI's board of directors. Professor Bradford also has an interest in legal humor and has published several humorous articles.

Professor Bradford is the father of four sometimes-wonderful children. His hobbies include running, bicycling, backpacking, and Australian rules yak-tossing. (If you have access to a yak near Lincoln, please let him know.)

Name:Robert C. Denicola
Title:Margaret R. Larson Professor of Intellectual Property Law
Address:233 LAW UNL 68583-0902
Phone:(402)472-1253
E-Mail:rdenicola1@unl.edu
 
 

Courses

  • Contracts
  • Copyright Law
  • Trademarks & Unfair Competition

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Law, 1976
  • Associate Professor of Law, 1979
  • Professor of Law, 1982
  • Margaret R. Larson Professor of Intellectual Property, 1988
  • Acting Dean, 1994-96
  • Cline Williams Research Chair, 2004-05

Books

  • Restatement of the Law (Third), Unfair Competition, (with H. Perlman), American Law Institute (1995)
  • Copyright, Unfair Competition, and Related Topics, Foundation Press (1985, 1990, 1995, 1998, 2002, 2005)
  • Supplement to Copyright, Unfair Competition, and Related Topics, Foundation Press

Articles

  • Copyright and Open Access: Reconsidering University Ownership of Faculty Research, 85 University of Nebraska Law Review 351 (2006)
  • Fair's Fair: An Argument for Mandatory Disclosure of Technological Protection Measures, 11 Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review 1 (2004)
  • Mostly Dead? Copyright Law in the New Millennium, 47 J. Copyright Society 193 (2000)
  • Freedom to Copy, 108 Yale Law Journal 1661 (1999)

Education

  • L.L.M., magna cum laude, 1976 Harvard University
  • J.D., magna cum laude, 1974 Harvard University
  • B.S.E., magna cum laude, 1971 Princeton University

Professor Denicola joined the Law College faculty in 1976. He received a B.S.E. degree, magna cum laude, from Princeton University in 197l and a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1974. He also received an LL.M. degree from Harvard in 1976. Professor Denicola worked with a Boston law firm before coming to Nebraska. He has also been a visiting professor at Cornell University and the University of Alabama, and was Acting Dean of the Law College from 1994-96. Professor Denicola teaches courses in Contracts, Copyright, and Unfair Competition. He has written a casebook on copyright law published by Foundation Press and was the Co-Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law of Unfair Competition.

Name:Richard F. Duncan
Title:Sherman S. Welpton, Jr. Professor of Law
Address:214 LAW UNL 68583-0902
Phone:(402)472-6044
E-Mail:rduncan2@unl.edu
 
 

Courses

  • Property
  • Constitutional Law
  • Constitutional Problems Seminar

Course Blogs

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Law, 1979
  • Associate Professor of Law, 1982
  • Professor of Law, 1985
  • Sherman S. Welpton Jr. Professor of Law, 1990

Books

  • The Law and Practice of Secured Transactions: Working with Article 9 (with Lyons and Wilson)(1987).
  • Hardwick’s Landmark Status, Romer’s Narrowness, and the Preservation of Marriage, in Marriage and Same-Sex Unions: A Debate, 264-73. (Wardle et al ed.) Praeger 2003).
  • Reflections on the Emperor’s Clothes: A Response to Professor David B. Cruz’s Theory on Marriage and the First Amendment, in Marriage and Same-Sex Unions: A Debate, 261-63. Wardle et al ed.) (Praeger 2003).
  • Book Chapter: On Liberty and Life In Babylon: A Pilgrim's Pragmatic Proposal, in McConnell et.al, Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought (Yale University Press 2001)
  • The Impact of Smith On Free Exercise Issues Concerning Education, contribution to International Perspectives On Church and State (Menachem Mor, ed., 1993)

Articles

  • JUSTICE THOMAS AND PARTIAL INCORPORATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE: HEREIN OF STRUCTURAL LIMITATIONS, LIBERTY INTERESTS, AND TAKING INCORPORATION SERIOUSLY, 20 Regent L. Rev. 37 (2007).
  • Locked Out: Locke v. Davey and the Broken Promise of Equal Access, 8 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 699 (2006)
  • Free Exercise and Individualized Exemptions: Herein of Smith, Sherbert, Hogwarts and Religious Liberty, 83 Neb. L.Rev.1178(2005).
  • Free Exercise Is Dead, Long Live Free Exercise: Smith, Lukumi and the General Applicability Requirement, 3 U. Pa J. Const. L. 850 (2001)
  • Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law and Education, (Book Review) 16 J. Law & Religion 945 (2001).
  • Parental Opt-Outs In Nebraska Schools: Respecting Freedom of Thought, Parental Rights, and Religious Pluralism, 79 Neb. L. Rev. 922 (2000).
  • 'They Call Me 'Eight Eyes'': Hardwick's Respectability, Romer's Narrowness, And Same-Sex Marriage, 32 Creighton L. Rev. 241 (1998)
  • From Loving To Romer: Homosexual Marriage And Moral Discernment, 12 B.Y.U.J. Public Law 239 (1998)
  • The Narrow And Shallow Bite of Romer And The Eminent Rationality of Dual-Gender Marriage, 6 William & Mary Bill of Rights J. 147 (1997)
  • Wigstock And The Kulturkampf: Supreme Court Storytelling, The Culture War, and Romer v. Evans, 72 Notre Dame L. Rev. 345 (1997)
  • Public Schools And The Inevitability of Religious Inequality, 1996 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 569
  • Homosexual Marriage and the Myth of Tolerance: Is Cardinal O’Connor a “Homophobe”? 10 Notre Dame J. Law, Ethics & Pub. Policy 587 (1986)
  • Homosexual Rights and Citizen Initiatives:  Is Constitutionalism Unconstitutional, 9 Notre Dame J. of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 97 (1995) (with Young)
  • Who Wants To Stop The Church:  Homosexual Rights Legislation, Public Policy, and Religious Freedom, 69 Notre Dame L. Rev. 393 (1994)
  • Religious Civil Rights In Public High Schools:  The Supreme Court Speaks on Equal Access, 24 Ind. L. Rev. 111 (1990)
  • Federal Tax Liens and the Secured Party, 21 U.C.C.L.J. 3 (1988) (with Lyons)
  • Loan Payments to Secured Creditors as Preferences Under the 1984 Bankruptcy Amendments, 64 Neb. L. Rev. 83 (1985)
  • Section 547(c)(1) and Delayed Perfection of Security Interests in the Ninth Circuit:  Matter of Vance, 721 F.2d 259 (9th Cir. 1983), 58 Am. Bankr.  L.J. 269 (1984)
  • Delayed Perfection of Security Interests in Personal Property and the Substantially Contemporaneous Exchange Exception to Preference Attack, 62 Neb. L. Rev. 201 (1983).  This article was the subject of a lengthy "digest" in 17 U.C.C.L.J. 82-85 (1984)
  • Preferential Transfers, the Floating Lien, and Section 547 (c)(5) of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, 36 Ark. L. Rev. 1 (1982)
  • Through the Trap Door Darkly:  Nebraska Exemption Policy and the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, 60 Neb. L. Rev. 219 (1981)

Education

  • J.D., cum laude, 1976, Cornell Law School
  • B.S., magna cum laude, 1973, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Professor Duncan joined the faculty in 1979. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 1973. In 1976, he received his J.D. degree from the Cornell Law School, where he served on the Board of Editors of the Cornell Law Review. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1977. From 1976-79, he was associated with White & Case, a New York City law firm. Professor Duncan teaches Property and Constitutional Law. He is an active member of the Christian Legal Society and has co-authored an amicus brief for the C.L.S. in a major First Amendment case in the Supreme Court of the United States. Professor Duncan has a strong interest in defending religious freedom and in the legal protection of pre-born children. He is also widely published in defense of traditional - dual-gender - marriage laws. Professor Duncan says that he enjoys teaching because it helps him to stimulate students' minds and challenge accepted views.

Professor Duncan and his wife, Kelly, have five children (Casey, Joshua, Rebecca Joy, Hannah Grace, and Kathleen Noel). They are active in the home school movement and are currently educating their children at home. Professor Duncan's activities outside law include following the Boston Red Sox, bird-watching, working on the native grass and wildflower meadow on the family acreage, and coaching girl's softball teams for his daughters.

Name:Susan Franck
Title:Assistant Professor of Law
Address:263 LAW UNL 68583-0902
Phone:(402)472-1662
E-Mail:sfranck2@unl.edu
 
 

Curriculum Vitae
SSRN Author

Courses

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Conflicts of Law
  • International Litigation and Arbitration
  • Investment Treaty Arbitration
  • Mediation

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Law, 2005
  • Visiting Associate Professor at Minnesota, 2004

Articles

Presentations

  • Invited Speaker, Faculty Colloquium George Washington University Law School, "Empirical Analysis of Investment Treaty Arbitration", Washington, DC, September 2007.
  • Invited Speaker, University of Wisconsin Law School and the Global Legal Studies Center, "Empirically Evaluating Claims About Investment Treaty Arbitration", Madison, Wisconsin, May 2007.
  • Invited Presenter, Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, "Foreign Investment and Investment Treaty Dispute Resolution: An Empirical Analysis", Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2007.
  • Invited Speaker, American Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution 9th Annual Spring Conference, "Beyond Cases: Teaching Arbitration Creatively", Washington, DC, April 2007.
  • Invited Expert, United Nations Commission on Trade and Development, "Expert Meeting on the International Investment System", Geneva, Switzerland, March 2007.
  • Invited Speaker and "New Voice", American Society of International Law 101st Annual Meeting, "Investment Law, Dispute Resolution and the Development Promise: Back to the Future", Washington, DC, March, 2007.
  • Invited Participant, Junior International Law Scholars Roundtable at Yale Law School, "Empirical Legal Studies and Investment Treaty Conflict", New Haven, Connecticut, March 2007.
  • Invited Speaker, University of Pennsylvania Law School, "International Investment and Transnational Litigation: The Challenges of Growing and Expanding Investor Disputes", Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 2007.
  • Invited Speaker, Faculty Colloquium Kansas University School of Law, "Investment Treaty Conflict", Lawrence, Kansas, February 2007.
  • Invited Participant, University of California at Berkeley Boalt School of Law, "Investment Arbitration: Lessons from Practice and a Discussion among Experts", Berkeley, California, January 2007.
  • Invited Speaker, Faculty Colloquium University of Missouri-Columbia, "Integrating Investment Treaty Conflict and Dispute Systems Design”, Columbia, Missouri, January 2007.
  • Invited Speaker, Faculty Colloquium Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, "Integrating Dispute Systems Design and Investment Treaty Conflict", Washington, DC, October 2006.
  • Invited Speaker, Hamline University School of Law and the International Law Student Association Annual Conference, "ADR at the Nation-State Level: Trade, Treaties, and Tribunals", St. Paul, Minnesota, October 2006.
  • Invited Commentator, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, "Procedural Aspects of Investment Treaty Arbitration", London, United Kingdom, September 2006.
  • Invited Moderator, South Eastern Association of Law Schools, "E-Commerce and Dispute Resolution", Palm Beach, Florida, July 2006.
  • Invited Speaker, Columbia Law School Symposium on Transparency and Consistency in International Investment Law, "What are the Principal Challenges Arising From International Investment Disputes?", New York, New York, April 2006.
  • Invited Speaker, Faculty Colloquium University of Missouri-Columbia, "Foreign Direct Investment, Investment Treaty Arbitration and the Rule of Law", Columbia, Missouri, January 2006.
  • Invited Speaker, International Law Weekend, "International Arbitrators: Civil Servants? Sub Rosa Advocates? Men of Affairs?", New York, New York, October 2005.
  • Invited Speaker, McGeorge School of Law University of the Pacific Symposium, "Judicial Independence and Legal Infrastructure: Essential Partners for Economic Development", Sacramento, California, October 2005.
  • Invited Speaker, Southeastern Association of Law Schools Young Scholars Conference, "The Future of Investment Arbitration and the Legacy of Inconsistent Decisions", Hilton Head, South Carolina, July 2005.
  • Panel Organizer and Speaker, American Society of International Law's 7th Hague Joint Conference on Contemporary Issues of International Law: International Institutional Reform, "ICSID and Other Investment Arbitration Tribunals: Is There a Need for Judicial Oversight or Other Reforms?", The Hague, Netherlands, July 2005.
  • Invited Speaker, Institute for Transnational Arbitration and the American Society of International Law, "Arbitration and the Involvement of Non-Parties: Transparency, Intervention and Appeal", Washington, DC, March 2005.
  • Invited Speaker, University of California-Davis School of Law Symposium, "Romancing the Foreign Investor BIT by BIT", Davis, California, March 2005.
  • Invited Speaker, International Trade Consortium at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, "Legal Rights of Foreign Investors", Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2005.
  • Invited Speaker, Faculty Works in Progress University of Minnesota, "The Legitimacy Crisis in Investment Treaty Arbitration", Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2004.
  • Invited Speaker, Stockholm University Department of Law, "Investment Treaty Arbitration", Stockholm, Sweden, October 2003.

Education

  • LL.M., with merit, 1999, University of London
  • J.D., magna cum laude, 1998, University of Minnesota
  • B.A., summa cum laude, 1993, Macalester College
  • A.A., with distinction, 1991, Simon's Rock College of Bard

Susan Franck joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2005. Professor Franck received her B.A., summa cum laude, in Psychology and Political Science from Macalester College in 1993 and her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota in 1998. Thereafter, Professor Franck received a U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Grant to study international dispute resolution at the University of London where she received an LL.M. with merit.

Most recently, Professor Franck was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. Prior to returning to the academy, Professor Franck practiced in the area of international dispute resolution on both sides of the Atlantic. From 1999-2001, Professor Franck was an associate in Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering's International Group in Washington, D.C. where she was involved with various international proceedings, including litigation regarding defaulted sovereign debt and one of the first investment treaty arbitrations against the Czech Republic. From 2002-2004, Professor Franck was a senior associate in the International Arbitration Group at Allen & Overy in London, England, where she represented investors and sovereign states in arbitrations involving breaches of investment treaties and underlying commercial agreements.

Professor Franck's scholarship relates to the resolution of international disputes, including issues related to alternative dispute resolution and claims made under investment treaties. She is the author of several articles published in journals such as the American Journal of International Law, Fordham Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, University of California-Davis Journal of International Law and Policy, and the New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative Law. Professor Franck teaches courses related to conflict of laws as well as domestic and international dispute resolution.

Professor Franck is qualified to practice law in England and Wales, Minnesota and the District of Columbia. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the LCIA's Young International Arbitrator's Group and has been a frequent lecturer at law schools in the United States, the United Kingdom and Sweden.

Name:Alan H. Frank
Title:Professor of Law
Address:214 LAW UNL 68583-0902
Phone:(402)472-1242
E-Mail:afrank2@unl.edu
 
 

Courses

  • Family Law
  • Client Interviewing & Counseling
  • Mediation
  • Family Law Practice

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Law, 1972
  • Associate Professor of Law, 1978
  • Associate Dean, 1979-1984
  • Professor of Law, 1992

Education

  • J.D., cum laude, 1972, University of Wisconsin Law School
  • Order of the Coif, 1972
  • B.S., History, 1966, Duke University

Professor Frank joined the faculty in 1972. He received his A.B. degree from Duke University in 1966 and a J.D. (cum laude, Order of the Coif) from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1972. From l966 to l968, he served in the Peace Corps in Libya. He was employed with the Legal Services Center for Dane County in Madison, Wisconsin, prior to coming to the University of Nebraska. Professor Frank currently teaches Family Law, Client Counseling, Mediation and Family Law Practice. He is the editor of the college's alumni magazine, the Nebraska Transcript, one of the coaches of Nebraska's Client Counseling competition team, and supervises the Community Legal Education Project, which aids in teaching law courses in area elementary and secondary schools. For five years, Professor Frank served as Associate Dean of the College, working with financial aid, admissions and student advisement. In 2005, he was awarded the Outstanding Service Award by the College of Law's Alumni Council.

Name:Martin R. Gardner
Title:Steinhart Foundation Professor of Law
Address:229 LAW UNL 68583-0902
Phone:(402)472-1207
E-Mail:mgardner1@unl.edu
 
 

Courses

  • Family Law
  • Juvenile Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Criminal Procedure
  • Criminal Sanctions Seminar

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Law (Alabama), 1973
  • Assistant Professor of Law, 1977
  • Associate Professor of Law, 1978
  • Professor of Law, 1980
  • Steinhart Foundation Professor of Law, 1987
  • Cline Williams-Flavel A. Wright Professor of Law, 2002

Books

  • Children and the Law: Cases and Materials (with Anne Dupre), Lexis/Nexis Publishers (2nd Edition 2006)
  • Crimes and Punishment: Cases and Materials, 3rd Edition (with Richard G. Singer), Lexis/Nexis Publishers (2004)
  • Understanding Juvenile Law, Lexis/Nexis Publishers (2nd Edition 2003)

Articles

  • The Fourth Amendment and the Public Schools: Observations on an Unsettled State of Search and Seizure Law, 36 Criminal Law Bulletin 373 (2000)
  • The Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel and its Underlying Values: Defining the Scope of Privacy Protection, 90 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 397 (2000)

Education

  • J.D., 1972, University of Utah
  • B.S., 1969, University of Utah

Professor Gardner teaches Family Law, Juvenile Law, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. He attended the University of Utah and received his B.S. degree in 1969 and his J.D. degree in 1972. He served as Associate Comment Editor for the Utah Law Review. During the 1975-76 academic year, he was a Fellow in Law and the Humanities at Harvard University. He is a member of the state bars of Nebraska and Utah. Professor Gardner was an Instructor at the Indiana University School of Law (Bloomington) during 1972-73 and was on the faculty of the University of Alabama School of Law from 1973-77. Professor Gardner was the John Sparkman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law for the Fall semester of 1986-87.

When he is not teaching or writing, Professor Gardner finds time to work out at the gym, play clarinet in several ensembles, and serve in church callings.

Name:John M. Gradwohl
Title:Judge Harry A. Spencer Professor of Law
Address:217 LAW UNL 68583-0902
Phone:(402)472-1254
E-Mail:jgradwohl1@unl.edu
 
 

Courses

  • Arbitration
  • Legislation Seminar

Appointments

  • Associate Professor of Law, 1959
  • Professor of Law, 1963
  • Ross McCollum Professor of Law, 1985-2004
  • Judge Harry A. Spencer Professor of Law 2004

 

Books

  • Arbitration Policies, Laws, Cases, Procedures, and Skills, Volume 1: Judicial Decisions and Volume 2: Statutes, Rules of Procedure, and Documents (2006)

Professor Gradwohl was born in 1930. Education: B.S., 1951, LL.B., 1953, University of Nebraska; LL.M., 1957, Harvard Law School. Admitted to practice: Nebraska, 1953. Teaching positions: Associate Professor, 1959-60, University of Minnesota; Associate Professor, 1960-63, Professor 1963-present; Visiting Professor, Texas A & M University, 1979. Current subjects: Arbitration, Legislation Seminar. Judge, Nebraska Commission of Industrial Relations (1963-1972 and 1978-1985); labor arbitrator, 1965 to present.