Academics
Professor Metzloff talks about teaching Civil Procedure and the summer start program
Thomas B. Metzloff, the Law School's senior associate dean for academic affairs from 1998-2001 and a current member of the executive committee of Duke University's Academic Council, teaches civil procedure, ethics, and dispute resolution, as well as a specialized course on the American legal system for international LLM students. Metzloff has conducted a major empirical study of court-ordered mediation in medical malpractice cases funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, served as an advisory member to the North Carolina State Bar Ethics Committee, and also served on the North Carolina Supreme Court's Dispute Resolution Committee.
This summer, Metzloff is teaching Civil Procedure to the summer starters of the Class of 2012. Summer starters are students pursuing a dual degree — JD/LLM in International and Comparative Law, JD/MA, and JD/MS — who begin their first-year studies in June, taking two of the Law School's core courses, such as Contracts and Property. This allows these dual degree students to begin work on their master's degree during their first year of Law School, and to complete both of their degrees in three years. JD/MBA students may also choose to begin in the summer and pursue upper-level Law School coursework during the fall and spring of their first year.