A.B., with honors, Stanford University, history, 1976. Phi Beta Kappa
J.D., Harvard University Law School, 1979. Research editor, Harvard Journal on Legislation
Practice experience: Associate, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, New York City, 1979-81; Associate, Rogers Hoge & Hills, New York City, 1981-86; Associate, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, New York City, 1986-88
Joined Cumberland faculty: 1988
Teaching and research interests: Civil procedure, constitutional law, constitutional history, professional responsibility
- Widely quoted expert in legal ethics; his survey of billing fraud among attorneys led to publication of his 1996 book, The Honest Hour: The Ethics of Time-Based Billing By Attorneys (Carolina Academic Press)
- Expert on federal appointments, including Supreme Court justices, other federal judges and Cabinet members; judicial ethics, including political activities of judges
- Expert on legal history, including historical perspectives on role of U.S. Supreme Court in American history; racial and religious discrimination
- Author of The Chief Justiceship of Charles Evans Hughes, 1930-41 (University of South Carolina Press, 2007); Forging New Freedoms: Nativism, Education and The Constitution, 1917-1927 (University of Nebraska Press, 1994) (recipient of the Gustavus Myers Center's Outstanding Book Award); and A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937 (Princeton University Press, 1994)
- Member, American Law Institute
- Harvey S.Jackson Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005.
