The University of Texas School of Law is pleased to announce that Frank B. Cross, the Herbert D. Kelleher Centennial Professor of Business Law in the Business School at UT, has accepted a joint appointment in the Law School commencing this fall. A 1980 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, Professor Cross practiced with Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, DC before joining the UT faculty in 1984. An outstanding teacher, he has received six awards for teaching excellence during his tenure at UT. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Duke University School of Law. "
Professor Cross has established himself as one of the most prolific and influential legal scholars in the nation," said Dean M. Michael Sharlot. "We are delighted that faculty and students in the law school will enjoy the benefits of his presence on a more regular basis."
Professor Cross's scholarship traverses several fields, including descriptive and normative studies of judicial decision-making, the economics of law and litigation, and traditional policy and doctrinal issues in administrative and environmental law.
Since 1998, he has published more than twenty articles, including "What's Not to Like (About Being a Lawyer)?" (Yale Law Journal, 2000) (with UT law professor Charles Silver), "Institutions and Enforcement of the Bill of Rights" (Cornell Law Review, 2000), "Realism About Federalism" (New York University Law Review, 1999), "A Modest Proposal for Improving American Justice" (Columbia Law Review, 1999) (with E. Tiller), "Shattering the Fragile Case for Judicial Review of Administrative Rulemaking" (Virginia Law Review, 1999), and "Judicial Partisanship and Obedience to Legal Doctrine" (Yale Law Journal, 1998) (with E. Tiller).
In the law school, he will teach courses and seminars on legislation, agency, judicial decision-making, and aspects of administrative and environmental law.