Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
Laura G. Dooley
Professor of Law & Jack Hiller Distinguished Faculty Award Recipient 2007
Laura.Dooley@valpo.edu
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Education
J.D., Washington University School of Law, Order of the Coif (1986)
B.A. in English and Music, University of Arkansas, Phi Beta Kappa (1982)
Courses Taught & Research Interests
Civil Procedure, Complex Litigation, Jurisprudence, Conflict of Laws, Legal Process, Family Law, Women and the Law, Criminal Procedure: Adjudication, Feminist Jurisprudence
Scholarly Works
National Juries for National Cases: Preserving Citizen Participation in Large-Scale Litigation, forthcoming 83 N.Y.U. L. Rev. ____(2008).
The Dilution Effect: Federalization, Fair Cross-sections and the Concept of Community, 54 DePaul L. Rev. 79 (2004) Westlaw | Lexis | bepress
Unequal Racial Access to Kidney Transplantation (with Ian Ayres and Robert Gaston), book chapter, IAN AYRES, PERVASIVE PREJUDICE: UNCONVENTIONAL EVIDENCE OF RACE AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
Stumbling Toward Equity: The Government's Role in Kidney Transplantation, 1998 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 703 (with Robert Gaston)
IN THE NEWS
Law professor receives distinguished faculty award
Laura Dooley, a Valparaiso University professor of law who is respected as a teacher and scholar of the civil justice system, has been named this year's winner of the Jack A. Hiller Distinguished Faculty Award.
The Cult of Finality: Rethinking Collateral Estoppel in the Postmodern Age, 31 VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 43 (1996) (inaugural lecture)
Our Juries, Our Selves: The Power, Perception and Politics of the Civil Jury, 80 CORNELL LAW REVIEW 325 (1995)
Distinctions & Awards
Jack A. Hiller Distinguished Faculty Award (2007)
Order of the Coif
Phi Beta Kappa
Professional Activities
Members Consultative Group, Project on Aggregate Litigation. American Law Institute
AALS Civil Procedure Section Newsletter. Contributing Editor.
Valparaiso University Law Review. Advisor (1994-present).
University Honorary Degrees Committee. Chair (2002-present)
University Gender Studies Committee. Member (2000-present)
University Faculty Grievance Committee. Member (2002-present)
Previous Professional Experience
Bigelow Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago School of Law
Judicial Law Clerk to Judge Pasco Bowman, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
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