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EDUCATION:
June, 1975 LL.M., Yale
December, 1971 J.D., University of Kentucky
Order of the Coif
May, 1967 B.A., University of Kentucky
Political Science & Economics
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Married, Age 62, 1 Daughter
MILITARY SERVICE:
January 1969 - October 1970 U.S. Army. Acting Chief Legal Clerk, Judge Advocate General's Office, John F. Kennedy Center for Military Assistance, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
BAR ADMISSIONS:
Kentucky, United States Court of Claims, United States Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals
EMPLOYMENT:
May 1981 - Present Professor of Law, West Virginia University
September - December 1987 Visiting Professor of Legal Studies, Department of Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
August - December 1985 Visiting Professor of Law, Washington & Lee University
August 1984 - March 1985 Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Legal Studies, Department of Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1979 - 1983 Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry, West Virginia University
January - August 1981 Visiting Scholar, Stanford Law School
February - May 1981 T-Group Facilitator, Stanford Graduate School of Business
August - December 1980 Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Health Law Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center (Houston) and University of Houston College of Law
1977 - 1980 Visiting Assistant and Associate Professor of Law, West Virginia University
June - August 1976 Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
1975 - 1977 Assistant Professor of Law, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
September 1974 - August 1975 Special Assistant United States Attorney, FHA Fraud Investigation, U.S. Attorney's Office, Newark, New Jersey
Department of Justice Special Achievement Award: Recognition of meritorious service for criminal fraud investigation of New Jersey mortgage companies and real estate brokers. July 21, 1974
February 1974 - August 1974 Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Newark, New Jersey
March 1972 - February 1974 Trial Attorney, Civil Division, Economic Stabilization Section, Department of Justice, Washington, DC
May 1971 - December 1971 Legal Intern, United States Attorney's Office, Lexington, Kentucky
September 1967-December 1968 Instructor, American Government and Economics, Midway Junior College, Midway, Kentucky
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARD, LECTURES, :
2003 Faculty Scholarship Award
March 10, 2003 "Life in the Disciplines: Law, Philosophy, and Literature," Reynolds Lecture, Elon University
1995 Benedum Distinguished Scholar, West Virginia University
1980 - 1983 National Kellogg Fellowship
1980 Health Law Fellowship, University of Texas Health Science Center and University of Houston Law School
Summer, 1979 National Endowment for the Humanities, Seminar for Law Teachers (Professor James Boyd White, University of Chicago)
Summer, 1978 Project for the Study of Humanistic Legal Education
September 9, 1978 West Virginia University Foundation Associate Award, Humanistic Approaches to Teaching
COURSES TAUGHT:
Administrative Law -- Advanced Criminal Law (Homicide Jury Instructions)-- Advanced Criminal Law (Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case)-- Appellate Advocacy -- Art of Advocacy -- Criminal Law -- Criminal Procedure -- Environmental Justice -- Family Law -- Jurisprudence -- Law and Mental Health -- Law and Psychiatry -- Lawyers and Film -- Lawyers and Literature -- Lawyer as Writer -- Lawyers, Poets, and Poetry -- The Legal Imagination -- Legal Interviewing and Counseling -- Narrative Jurisprudence -- Narrative Jurisprudence (a 3-week course) -- Practical Moral Philosophy for Lawyers -- Professional Responsibility -- Psychology for Lawyers -- The Lawyer as Person -- Mythology and Professionalism -- Women and the Legal Profession
ADVISORY BOARDS:
1994 - 1996 University of North Carolina School of Law, Intergenerational Ethics Project [The Intergenerational Ethics Project is now inactive]
OFFICES HELD IN NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
1980 - 1983 President, American Legal Studies Association
EDITORSHIPS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS:
1996 - Present Editor, Legal Studies Forum
1994 - 1995 Editorial Board, Legal Studies Forum
1987 - 1992 Book Review Editor, Journal of Legal Education
1985 - 1988 Editorial Board, Journal of Legal Education
January 1987 - August 1987 Book Review Editor, Legal Studies Forum
1983 - 1987 Editor, Transformations, Newsletter of the American Legal Studies Association
1979 - 1984 Editorial Board, Legal Studies Forum
EDITOR OF JOURNAL SYMPOSIUM ISSUES:
"Bring Me One of Everything: Selected Writings of Leslie Hall Pinder," 31 Legal Studies Forum 1033-1287 (2007)
"Correcting the World: Selected Poetry and Writings of Michael Blumenthal," 31 Legal Studies Forum 1-447 (2007)
"Crimes Gone By: Collected Collected Essays of Albert Borowitz 1966-2005," 29 Legal Studies Forum 588-1062 (2005) [on-line text]
"Poetry and Law | Lawyers and Poetry | Fiction & Memoirs," 29 Legal Studies Forum 1-587 (2005) ["Lawyers and Poetry": on-line text]
"Off the Record: An Anthology of Poetry by Lawyers," 28 Legal Studies Forum 1-732 (2004) [on-line text]
"Fiction by John William Corrington," 26 Legal Studies Forum 1-492 (2002)
"Fishing Deep Waters: John William Corrington (1932-1988)," 26 Legal Studies Forum 493-912(2002)
"The Legal Fiction of Lowell B. Komie," 25 Legal Studies Forum 1-246 (2001)
"Teaching a Lawyer's Confessions," 21 Legal Studies Forum 139-300 (1997)(with Michael Distelhorst)
"The Pedagogy of Narrative," 40 Journal of Legal Education 1-250 (1990)
"Legal Education and the Pedagogy of Ethics," 10 Legal Studies Forum 265-324 (1986)
"Narrative Jurisprudence," 9 Legal Studies Forum 123-234 (1985)
"Worlds of Silence: Women in Legal Education," 8 American Legal Studies Forum 1-161 (1984)
PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS):
Legal Interviewing and Counseling (West Publishing Co., 4th ed. 2005)(co-authored with Thomas Shaffer)
PUBLICATIONS (ESSAYS, ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS):
Popular Culture, Legal Films, and Legal Film Critics, 40 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 745-791 (2007)[on-line text]
Finding Pinder, 31 Legal Studies Forum 1035-1042 (2007) [on-line text]
Meditations on the Odd Lives We Live, 31 Legal Studies Forum 885-931 (2007)[on-line text]
TS Kerrigan: An Interview with James R. Elkins 31 Legal Studies Forum 473-493 (2007)[on-line text]
A Poetics--of and for--Ruthann Robson, 8 New York City Law Review 363-400 (2005) [on-line text]
In Search of the Lawyer Poets, Rattle #23 (Summer, 2005)(vol.11, no.1)(pp. 117-124) [revised version titled, "The Remnants of a Lost & Forgotten Library: On Finding the Lawyer Poets," 30 Legal Studies Forum 1-9 (2006)][on-line text]
Interview [Albert Borowitz], 29 Legal Studies Forum 1047-1056 (2005) [on-line text]
Simon Perchik: An Interview, 29 Legal Studies Forum 181-186 (2005)[on-line text]
Ruthann Robson and James R. Elkins: A Conversation, 29 Legal Studies Forum 145-172 (2005)[on-line text]
Reading/Teaching Lawyer Films, 28 Vermont Law Review 813-879 (2004) [on-line text]
[revised, condensed version, published in 25 (1) Les Cahiers de L'Apliut(Symposium: Cinéma et Langue de Spécialité) 8-25 (2006)][on-line text]
An Anthology of Poetry By Lawyers (Introduction), 28 Legal Studies Forum 1-19 (2004)[on-line text]
"A Letter to 'Law & Literature' Students in Australia," in Law, Memory & Literature 20-33 (Australian Legal Philosophy Students Association, ALPSA 2004 Annual Publication, 2004)[on-line text]
The John William Corrington & Charles Bukowski Correspondence: On Poetry and Writing, 27 Legal Studies Forum 561-611 (2003)[on-line text]
A Great Gift: Reading John William Corrington, 26 Legal Studies Forum 425-490 (2002)[on-line text]
John William Corrington, 26 Legal Studies Forum 493-502 (2002)[on-line text]
John William Corrington's Journals 1980-1988, 26 Legal Stud. F. 541 (2002)(editor)[on-line text]
Lowell B. Komie of Chicago: Writer and Lawyer, 25 Legal Studies Forum 1-10 (2001)[on-line text]
Lowell B. Komie: An Interview, 25 Legal Studies Forum 223-246 (2001)[on-line text]
A Law Culture Diagnostic (Review Essay), 8 (1) Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture 48-57 (2001)[on-line text]
Lawyer Ethics: A Pedagogical Mosaic, 14 Notre Dame Journal Law, Ethics & Policy 117-222 (2000)
The Critical Thinking Movement: Alternating Currents in One Teacher's Thinking, 23 Legal Studies Forum 379 (1999)[web version][on-line text]
A Conversation of Moralists, 23 Legal Studies Forum 249 (1999)[on-line text]
The Things They Carry Into Legal Writing (And Legal Education), 22 Legal Studies Forum 749-788 (1998)[on-line text]
Rhetoric, Disciplines, and Stories: How Will We Know When We Have Too Much Law, 22 Legal Studies Forum 519-527 (1998)[on-line text]
Teaching a Lawyer's Confessions, 21 Legal Studies Forum 151-192 (1997)[on-line text]
An Argument Against Reticence in the Teaching of Virtue, 21 Legal Studies Forum 221-238 (1997)[on-line text]
What Kind of Story Is Legal Writing?, 20 Legal Studies Forum 95-135 (1996)[on-line text]
Thinking Like a Lawyer: Second Thoughts, 47 Mercer L. Rev. 511-541 (1996)[on-line text][Professor Peter R. Teachout's response]
Troubled Beginnings: Reflections on Becoming a Lawyer, 26 U. Memphis Law Review 1303-1324 (1996)[on-line text]
Pathologizing Professional Life: Psycho-Literary Case Stories, 18 Vermont Law Review 581-643 (1994)
The Moral Labyrinth of Zealous Advocacy, 20 Capital Law Review 735-796 (1993)[on-line text]
Writing Our Lives: Making Introspective Writing a Part of Legal Education, 29 Willamette Law Review 41-68 (1993)
Symptoms Exposed When Legalists Engage in Moral Discourse: Reflections on the Difficulties of Talking Ethics, 17 Vermont Law Review 353-423 (1993)[on-line text]
From the Symposium Editor, 40 Journal of Legal Education 1-2 (1990)(Introduction to Pedagogy of Narrative Symposium)
Socrates and the Pedagogy of Critique, 14 Legal Studies Forum 231-252 (1990) [on-line text]
A Bibliography of Narrative, 40 Journal of Legal Education 203-250 (1990)(Symposium on Pedagogy of Narrative)
The Stories We Tell Ourselves in Law, 40 Journal of Legal Education 47-76 (1990)(Symposium on Pedagogy of Narrative) [on-line text]
The Quest for Meaning: Narrative Accounts of Legal Education, 38 Journal of Legal Education 577-598 (1988)
Resistance to Legal Ethics, 12 Journal of the Legal Profession 29-48 (1987) (co-authored with Elizabeth Gee)
Reflections on the Religion Called Legal Education, 37 Journal of Legal Education 522-528 (1987)
The Reconstruction of Legal Ethics as Ethics (Review Essay), 36 Journal of Legal Education 274-283 (1986)
A Conversation Called Ethics, 10 Legal Studies Forum 265-274 (1986)[on-line text]
Professing Law: Does Teaching Matter, 31 Saint Louis University Law Journal 35-51 (1986) (Response to Sanford Levinson's, 1986 Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture, Saint Louis University)
On the Emergence of Narrative Jurisprudence: The Humanistic Perspective Finds a New Path, 9 Legal Studies Forum 123-156 (1985)[on-line text]
The Examined Life: A Mind in Search of Heart, 30 American Journal of Jurisprudence 155-187 (1985)
The Pedagogy of Ethics, 10 Journal of the Legal Profession 37-83 (1985)
Rites of Passage: Law Students "Telling Their Lives," 35 Journal of Legal Education 27-55 (1985)
Ethics: Professionalism, Craft, and Failure, 73 Kentucky Law Journal 937-965 (1984-85)
Cinderella: The Mythic Lives of Women Law Students, 8 American Legal Studies Forum 125-146 (1984)[on-line text]
On Working with Feminine Energy, 8 American Legal Studies Forum 147-159 (1984)[on-line text]
On the Significance of Women in Legal Education, 7 American Legal Studies Forum 290-316 (1983)[on-line text]
Becoming a Lawyer: The Transformation of Self During Legal Education, 66 Soundings 450-468 (Winter 1983)
A Humanistic Perspective in Legal Education, 62 Nebraska Law Review 494-525 (1983)[on-line text]
Coping Strategies in Legal Education, 16 The Law Teacher 195-210 (1982)
Moral Discourse and Legalism in Legal Education, 32 Journal Legal Education 11-52 (1982)
"All My Friends Are Becoming Strangers": The Psychological Perspective in Legal Education, 84 West Virginia Law Review 161-222 (1981)[on-line text]
Reflections on Humanistic Teaching, 5 American Legal Studies Forum 3-19 (Winter, 1981)[on-line text]
Legal Representation of the Mentally Ill, 82 West Virginia Law Review 157-225 (1979)[on-line text]
The Paradox of A Life in Law, 40 University Pittsburgh Law Review 129-168 (1978)
The Legal Persona: An Essay on the Professional Mask, 64 Virginia Law Review 735-762 (1978)
The Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals: A Study in the Abdication of Judicial Responsibility, 1978 Duke Law Journal 113-153
Corporations and the Criminal Law: An Uneasy Alliance, 65 Kentucky Law Journal 73-129 (1977)
A Counseling Model for Lawyering in Divorce Cases, 53 Notre Dame Lawyer 229-265 (1977)
PUBLICATIONS (BOOK REVIEWS):
Book Review: Bunyan Bryant (ed.), Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies and Solutions, The Workbook (1996) (Albuquerque, NM: Southwest Research and Information Center)
Book Review: Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of Blue Collar and Minority Environmentalism in America by Jim Schwab, 20 (1) The WorkBook 27-29 (Spring, 1995)(Albuquerque, NM: Southwest Research and Information Center)
Book Review: Elizabeth Dvorkin, et. al., Becoming a Lawyer--A Humanistic Perspective on Legal Education and Professionalism, 6 American Legal Studies Forum 307-322 (1983)
Book Review: A Theory of Criminal Justice by Hyman Gross, 81 West Virginia Law Review 219-228 (1978-79)
Book Review: One L by Scott Turow, 3 American Legal Studies Forum 81-88 (1978)[on-line text]
Book Review: Legal Interviewing and Counseling by Thomas Shaffer, 30 Vanderbilt Law Review 923-940 (1977)
WEB SITES:
A Beginner's Guide to Legal Education
Strangers to Us All: Lawyers and Poetry
PUBLICATIONS (MISCELLANEOUS):
Professional Burnout Among U.S. Veterinarians: How Serious a Problem? 82 Veterinary Medicine 1245-1250 (1987) (with Dr. A.D. Elkins)
Guest Editorial: Professional Burnout & Veterinarians, 18 Journal American Animal Hospital Association 849-852 (1982) (with Dr. A.D. Elkins)
Psychiatric Judgments and Legal Standards of Proof, Newsletter, West Virginia District Branch, American Psychiatric Association (Spring 1979)
Imagination and Creativity in Lawyering: A Report on a Law School Seminar, 3(1) American Legal Studies Forum 13-22 (May 1978)[on-line text]
Seasons, Semesters and Paradoxes, 5 Cause of Action 8-9 (March 1977)
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