Despite the intense competition for law teaching jobs, graduates of the University of Texas School of Law have enjoyed tremendous success in recent years in securing coveted law professorships around the nation. In the last five years, eight UT alumni have been hired in to tenured or tenure-track positions in the law schools at Indiana University at Bloomington, New York University, the University of Alabama, the University of Arizona, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Georgia, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
This past year alone, two recent graduates secured tenure-track teaching jobs. Christopher Fairman '94 accepted a job at Ohio State University College of Law (where his new colleagues will include Morgan Shipman '58 and Douglas Whaley '68), while Jack Nowlin '94 joins the tenure-track faculty at the University of Mississippi School of Law (where his colleagues will include Timothy L. Hall '83).
Professor Fairman did his undergraduate work at the University of Texas at Austin and is a cum laude graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, where he served as Associate Editor of the Texas Law Review and was elected to Order of the Coif. He clerked on the Texas Court of Appeals for the Hon. J. Woodfin Jones and then on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for the Hon. Fortunato P. Benavides, before joining the litigation department at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in Dallas. While clerking and practicing, he published several articles, including "Abdication to Academia: The Case of the Supplemental Jurisdiction Statute" (19 Seton Hall Legislation Journal 157 [1994]) and "Squeeze Play: Workers' Compensation and the Professional Athlete" (12 University of Miami Entertainment & Sports Law Review 95 [1995]). His primary area of expertise is civil procedure.
Professor Nowlin did his undergraduate work at Angelo State University and graduated Order of the Coif from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was elected a Chancellor Scholar, signifying placement in the top 3% of his graduating class. He also served as Articles & Notes Editor of the Texas International Law Journal. After law school, he earned a Ph.D. in the Politics Department at Princeton University, where he wrote a dissertation on "The Limits of Judicial Power." At Mississippi, he will be teaching and writing about constitutional law and jurisprudence.
In addition, three other law graduates have accepted visiting positions: Kathleen C. Engel '88 at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law of Cleveland State University; Lonny Hoffman '92 at the University of Cincinnati College of Law (where his colleagues will include Wendy Parker '90); and Keith Rowley '92 at Emory University School of Law.
Professor Engel did her undergraduate work at Smith College and graduated cum laude from the University of Texas School of Law, where she was also an editor of the American Journal of Criminal Law. After law school, she clerked for the Hon. Homer Thornberry on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and then practiced civil rights and employment law in Boston. She has also been an adjunct professor at Northeastern University School of Law and Case Western Reserve University Law School. She specializes in employment law and employment discrimination, civil procedure, and trial practice.
Professor Hoffman did his undergraduate work at Columbia University. At Texas, he was Note Editor of the Texas Law Review and then practiced in Houston before moving to Cincinnati in 1999, where his wife is completing a degree. He received the Goldman Award for teaching excellence at Cincinnati this year. He recently published "Removal Jurisdiction and the All Writs Act" (148 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 401 [1999]). He teaches and writes in civil procedure, property, and legal history.
Professor Rowley did his undergraduate work at Baylor and earned a Masters of Public Policy from the Kennedy School at Harvard. At Texas, he was Executive Editor of the Texas Law Review, and then clerked for the Hon. Thomas M. Reavley on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and practiced in Houston. He has published several articles, and is currently revising volumes 9 and 10 of Corbin on Contracts, which is under the general editorship of Professor Joseph Perillo of Fordham. He teaches and writes in contracts, commercial law, and economic analysis of law.
For more information on these distinguished graduates, contact Professor Brian Leiter at bleiter@mail.law.utexas.edu.