Curriculum Vitae

Paul D. Carrington

Personal History

Born: June 12, 1931 at Dallas, Texas
Married: August 2, 1952 to Bessie Meek
Children: Clark DeWitt (1955), Mary (1957), William James (1962), Emily (1963)
Grandchildren: Erin Coutts (1985), Paul DeWitt Carrington (1986), Laura Coutts (1987), Mary Frances Carrington (1988), Maria Carrington (1992), Stewart Bell (1993), Madeline Carrington (1994), Courtney Bell (1997)

Academic and Professional Credentials

Degrees: B.A., University of Texas (1952); LL.B., Harvard University (1955)

Licenses: (Law): Texas (1955), Ohio (1962), Michigan (1966)

Employment

Private practice in Dallas, 1955
U.S. Army, enlisted service, 1955-57
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1957-58
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Wyoming, 1958-60
Assistant Professor of Law, Indiana University, 1960-62
Associate Professor of Law, Ohio State University, 1962-64
Professor of Law, Ohio State University, 1964
Professor of Law, University of Michigan, 1965-78
Professor of Law, Duke University, 1978-
Dean, 1978-88
Chadwick Professor of Law, 1989-

Publications

Books and Monographs

The Uniform Commercial Code (Wyoming Legal Research Bureau, 1960)
Accommodating the Workload of the United States Courts of Appeals (American Bar Foundation, 1968)
Civil Procedure: Cases with Comments on the Process of Adjudication (editor) (Little Brown & Co., 1969)
Reviewed: Barron, 68 Mich. L. Rev. 1062; Stone, 85 Harv. L. Rev. 712
Teachers' Manual, 1970
Supplement, 1974
Training for the Public Professions of the Law (Association of American Law Schools, 1971)
Reprinted: ALI-ABA Joint Committee, 1972; Packer & Ehrlich, New Directions in Legal Education (McGraw-Hill, 1972)
Reviewed: 1972 U. Ill. L. F. 843 (Brickman)
Appellate Justice: 1975 (editor) (National Center for State Courts, 5 vols.)
Justice on Appeal (West Pub. Co., 1976) (with Meador & Rosenberg)
Civil Procedure: Cases with Comments on the Process of Adjudication (Little Brown & Co., 2d ed., 1977) (edited with Babcock)
Reviewed: Walker, Stan. L. Rev. (1979)
Teachers' Manual, 1978
Supplement, 1980
Civil Procedure Supplement: Statutes and Rules of Court (Little Brown & Co., 1977) (edited with Babcock)
Civil Procedure, Gilbert's Outline (Harcourt Brace Janovich, 11th ed., 1980) (with Hazard)
Civil Procedure: Cases with Comments on the Process of Adjudication (Little Brown & Co., 3d ed., 1983) (edited with Babcock)
Teachers' Manual, 1984
Civil Procedure Supplement: Statutes and Rules of Court (Little Brown & Co., 2d ed., 1983) (edited with Babcock)
Federal Appellate Jurisdiction, 47-2 & 3 Law & Contemp. Prob. (1984) (Editor) (double issue)
Empirical Studies of Civil Procedure, 51-3 & 4 Law and Contemp. Prob. (1989) (Editor, double issue)
The Hague Conference on Private International Law, 57-3 Law and Contemp. Prob. (1994) (edited with Adair Dyer)
Appeals (Michie & Co. 1994) (edited with Meador and Rosenberg)
Readings on Judicial Independence and Accountability (American Bar Association 1998) (edited with Christopher D. Rae)
Judicial Independence and Democratic Accountability 61-1 Law and Contemp. Prob. (1999) (edited with D. Price Marshall)
Stewards of Democracy: Law as A Public Profession (Harper Collins Westview 1999)

Manuscripts in Progress

The Romance of American Law: The American Legal Profession and the Democratic Tradition from 1779 to 1979
International Litigation in U. S. Courts

Articles, Chapters, and Reviews

Political Questions: The Judicial Check on the Executive, 42 Va. L. Rev. 175 (1956)
Book Review, Alexandrowicz: Constitutional Developments in India, 71 Harv. L. Rev. 1590 (1958)
The Moral Quality of the Criminal Law, 54 NW. U. L. Rev. 575 (1959)
A Foreword to the Study of the Uniform Commercial Code, 14 Wyo. L. J. 17 (1959)
Banking, Commercial Paper and Investment Securities Under the Uniform Commercial Code, 14 Wyo. L. J. 198 (1959)
Sales and Bulk Sales Under the Uniform Commercial Code, 15 Wyo. L.J. 1 (1960)
Book Review, Bok: Star Wormwood, 73 Harv. L. Rev. 1435 (1960)
The Modern Utility of the Quasi in Rem Jurisdiction, 76 Harv. L. Rev. 303 (1962)
Collateral Estoppel and Foreign Judgments, 24 Ohio St. L. J. 381 (1963)
Book Review, Honnold & Farnsworth: Cases and Materials on Commercial Law, 50 Minn. L. Rev. 601 (1966)
Book Review, Arnold: Fair Fights and Foul, 65 Mich. L. Rev. 562 (1966)
Substantive Interests and the Jurisdiction of State Courts, 66 Mich. L. Rev. 227 (1967) (with Martin)
Discovery: An Overview of the Uses and Goals of Discovery in Hospital Liability Cases, in Hospital Liability Law (Inst. Cont. Leg. Ed. 1968)
Tax Assessors and Their Information, 10 Michigan Assessors 3 (1968) (with Levy)
Professionalism and Our Troubled Times, 54 A.B.A. J. 943 (1969)
Crowded Dockets and the Courts of Appeals: The Threat to the Function of Review and the National Law, 82 Harv. L. Rev. 542 (1969)
The Power of the District Judge, 3 Ga. L. Rev. 507 (1969)
The Many Mansions of a University, 17 Am. J. Comp. Law 331 (1969)
Academic Freedom at the University of Mississippi, 56 AAUP Bulletin 75 (1970) (with Adams)
Adjudication Procedures, in The New Michigan Administrative Procedures (Cramton & Holmes, eds., 1970)
Statement on Student Rights and Responsibilities, 1 J. Human Rights 140 (1970) (with others) republished: Revista de Derechos Humanos (1971)
Improving Procedures in the Decisional Process, 52 F.R.D. 51 (1971)
Civilizing University Discipline, 69 Mich. L. Rev. 393 (1971)
The Limits of University Sanctions in Law and Discipline on Campus: 1971 (Inst. Cont. Leg. Ed.)
On Egalitarian Overzeal: A Polemic Against the Local School Property Tax Cases, 1971 U. Ill. L. F. 232 (1972) republished: Law Review Digest, 1973 Education and Law, 1972
Financing the American Dream: Equality and School Taxes, 73 Colum. L. Rev. 1227 (1973)
The Proposed Equal Education Opportunity Act of 1973, Law Quad Notes (1973)
Book Review, Fish: The Politics of Federal Judicial Administration, 72 Mich. L. Rev. 628 (1974)
Book Review, Posner, Law and Economics, 1974 U. ILL. L. F. 187.
A Foreword to the Study of the New Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure (West 1974)
Paraprofessionalism in Higher Education, House Judiciary Committee (1974)
United States Appeals: A Field and Statistical Analysis, 11 Houston L. Rev. 1104 (1974)
On the Pursuit of Competence, Trial Magazine, Dec. 1976
The Alienation of Law Students, 75 Mich. L. Rev. 887 (1977) (with Conley)
Current Developments in Judicial Administration, 80 F.R.D. 180 (1978)
Negative Attitudes of Law Students: A Republication of the Alienation and Dissatisfaction Factors, 76 Mich. L. Rev. 1036 (1978) (with Conley)
Let the Tribunal Fit the Case - A Comment, 80 F.R.D. 180 (1978)
The University Law School and Legal Services, 53 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 402 (1978)
Adjudication as a Private Good - A Comment, 8 J. Leg. St. 303 (1979)
Ceremony and Realism, 66 A.B.A. J. 860 (1980)
reviewed 55 Cal State Bar J 471 (1980)
The Right to Zealous Counsel, 1979 Duke L. J. 1291 (1980)
Book Review, Allen: Law, Intellect and Education, 79 Mich. L. Rev. 1477 (1981)
Dedication Address, 1 Duke Law Magazine 6 (1982)
Cultural Narcissism in Law, 93 F.R.D. 734 (1982)
Book Review, Stevens: Law School, 72 Calif. L. Rev. 477 (1984)
Call for A Profession of Truth, 34 J. Leg. Ed. 105 (1984)
Of Law and the River, 34 J. Leg. Ed. 222 (1984)
Civil Procedure and Alternative Dispute Resolution, 34 J. Leg. Ed. 298 (1984)
republished in Civil Procedure Anthology (Levine, Doernberg & Nelken eds, 1998)
Toward a Federal Interlocutory Appeals Act, 47-3 Law & Contemp. Prob.165 (1984)
Correspondence, 35 J. Leg. Ed. 924 (1985)
Book Review, Posner: The Federal Courts, 71 A.B.A. J. 160 (1985)
The Dangers of A Graduate School Model, 35 J.Leg.Ed. 11 (1986)
James A. Martin: An Appreciation, 84 Mich. L. Rev. (1986)
Trial by Jury, in 4 Ency. of the American Constitution (McMillan,1986) (Levy, Karst & Mahoney, eds.)
The Function of the Civil Appeal: A Late Century View, 1978 S.Car.L. Rev. 411 (1987)
Statement, Fair Housing Amendment Act of 1987 (S. 558), Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 100th Congress, 1st Sess. 570 (June 4, 1987)
Afterword: Why Deans Quit, 1987 Duke L.J. 342 (1987)
Law, the River and the Lamp (Occasional Paper of American College of Trial Lawyers, 1987)
Book Review, Halliday: Beyond Monopoly: Lawyers, State Crises and Professional Empowerment, 240 Science 1055 (1988)
Freedom and Community in the Academy, 66 Texas L. Rev. 1577 (1988)
Continuing Work on the Civil Rules: Summons, 63 Notre Dame L.Rev. 733 (1988)
Statement re Deletion of Supersession Provision from Rules Enabling Act, Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings (1988)
Exorcising the Bogy of Non-Transsubstantive Rules and Making Rules to Dispose of Manifestly Unfounded Assertions, 137 U.Pa.L.Rev 2067 (1989)
"Substance" and "Procedure" in the Rules Enabling Act, 1989 Duke L. J. 281
A Senate of Five, 23 Georgia L. Rev. 859 (1989).
David F. Cavers, 51-3 Law and Contemp. Problems xii (1989)
Foreword, Empirical Studies of Civil Procedure, 51-3 Law & Contemp. Prob. 1 (1989)
Commencement Remarks, 11 Benchmarks 38 (1989)
Courts of Appeals - District Court Relations, in The Federal Courts in the Twenty-First Century (Federal Judicial Center, 1990)
Trial by Jury in Civil Litigation: An American Idiosyncracy, in United States/Japan Commercial Law and Trade (Kusuda-Smick ed. 1990)
The Revolutionary Idea of University Legal Education, 31 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 527 (1990)
Teaching Law and Virtue at Transylvania University: The George Wythe Tradition in the Antebellum Years, 41 Mercer L. Rev 673 (1990)
The Civil Jury at 199: Reflections on a Forthcoming Bicentennial, 1990 U. Chi. L. F. 1
The Unknown Court, in Restructuring Justice (Hellman, ed., 1990)
Aftermath, in Essays in Honor of Patrick Atiyah (Cane & Stapleton eds., 1991)
The New Order in Judicial Rulemaking, 68 Judicature 131 (1991)
Teaching Law in the Antebellum Northwest, 23 U. Tol. L. Rev. 3 (1992)
Butterfly Effects: The Political Influence of Law Teachers, 41 Duke L. J. 741 (1992)
The Boalt Affair, 41 J. Leg. Ed. 263 (1992)
Why Deans Stay: A Quitters Response, 51 Md. L. Rev.505 (1992)
Law and Chivalry: An Exhortation from the Spirit of the Hon. Hugh Henry Brackenridge of Pittsburgh (1748-1816), 53 U.Pitt.L.Rev. 705 (1992)
Preble Stolz, 80 Calif. L. Rev. 811 (1992)
The Aims of Early American Law Teaching: the Patriotism of Francis Lieber, 42 J. Leg. Ed. 339 (1992)
Diversity!, 1992 Utah L. Rev. 1105
One Law: The Role of Legal Education in The Opening of the Legal Profession Since 1776, 44 Fla. L. Rev. 591 (1993)
Meaning and Professionalism in American Law, 10 Constitutional Commentary 297 (1993)
Comment on Derrick Bell's "Diversity and Academic Freedom," 43 J. Leg. Ed. 380 (1993)
Remembering Jefferson, 2 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 455 (1993)
International Litigation in the Courts of the United States, in The International Symposium on Civil Justice In The Era of Globalization: Collected Reports (1993)
Buffaloes and Straw Men, 26 Conn. L. Rev. 296 (1993)
How We Got Here and Where We Are Headed, in Revolutionary Changes in Practice Under The New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (M. Aspen & J. Solovy eds., 1994)
Our Courts Need Friends: How Rule 26 Came To Be, 156 F. R. D. 295 (1994)
Reflections on the Interface of Treaties and Rules of Procedure: Time for Federal Long-Arm Jurisdiction, 57-3 Law & Contemp. Prob. 153 (1994) (with Phillips)
Legal Education for the People: Populism and Civic Virtue, 43 Kan. L. Rev. 1 (1994)
The Missionary Diocese of Chicago, 44 J. Leg. Ed. 467 (1994)
The Twenty-First Wisdom, 52 Wash & Lee L. Rev. 333 (1995)
Good Sense and 21, 52 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 987 (1995)
Der Einschluss kontinentalen Rechts und Juristen und Rechtskultur der USA, 1776-1933, 11 Juristen Zeitung 183 (1995)
Hail! Langdell!, 20 J. Law & Social Inquiry 691 (1995)
William Gardiner Hammond and the Lieber Revival, 16 Cardozo L. Rev. 2135 (1995)
Professor Wigmore, 1 Toin L. Rev. 219 (1995) (in Japanese)
Maurice Rosenberg, 95 Colum. L. Rev. 1901 (1995)
Federal Use of State Institutions in the Administration of Justice, 49 SMU L. Rev. 557 (1996)
ADR and Future Adjudication: A Primer on Dispute Resolution, 15 Rev. of Litigation 1 (1996)
reprinted in 31 International Society of Barristers Quarterly 362 (1996)
A New Confederacy? Disunionism in the Federal Courts, 45 Duke L. J. 929 (1996)
A Tale of Two Lawyers, 91 Northwestern Univ. L. Rev. 615 (1997)
Contract and Jurisdiction, 1996 Supreme Court Review 331 (1997) (with Haagen)
Law as "The Common Thoughts of Men:" The Law-Teaching and Judging of Thomas McIntyre Cooley, 49 Stan. L. Rev. 495 (1997)
The War on Drugs: Time for A Reality Check?, 14 Thomas Cooley L. Rev. 179 (1997)
The Constitutional Limits of Judicial Rulemaking: The Illegitimacy of Mass Tort Settlements Under Federal Rules 23, 39 Ariz. L. Rev. 461 (1997) (with Apanovitch)
Reluctant Experts, 59-4 Law & Contemp. Prob. 101 (1997) (with Jones)
Law and The Wisconsin Idea, 48 J. Leg. Ed. 297 (1997) (with King)
Renovating Discovery, 49 Ala. L. Rev. 51 (May, 1997)
On Law and Science, Duke Law Magazine 30 (Spring, 1998)
O! Miss Larsen!, 1 Alibi 31 (1998)
The New Social Darwinism, 1 Green Bag 2d 235 (1998)
The Future of Civil Justice in North Carolina, N.C. State Bar J. 32 (Summer 1998)
Remarks on Discovery Reform, 39 B.C. L. Rev. 809 (1998)
Regulating Dispute Resolution Provisions in Adhesion Contracts, 35 Harv. J. Legis. 227 (1998)
Law and Economics in the Creation of Federal Administrative Law: Thomas Cooley, Village Elder to the Republic, 83 Iowa L. Rev. 363 (1997)
Virtual Civil Litigation: A Visit to John Bunyan's Celestial City, 98 Colum. L. Rev. 501 (1998)
The Constitutional Law Scholarship of Thomas McIntyre Cooley, 41 Am. J. Leg. Hist 368 (1997)
Moths to the Light: The Dubious Virtues of American Civil Procedure, 48 U. Kan. L. Rev. 1 and in Festschrift fur Bernhard Grossfeld zum 65. Geburtstag 129 (Ulrich Hubner & Werner Ebke ed., Frankfurt)
The Influences of Continental Law on American Legal Education and Legal Institutions, in Toward Comparative Law in the 21st Century at 1037 (Chuo University Press, Tokyo, 1998)
Ernst Freund, in 7 American National Biography 287 (1999)
Fitness Training, 2 Green Bag 2d 131 (1999)
My Devon: Memoir of a Nerd, 2 Alibi 35 (1999)
A Proposal for a Proceeding in the Nature of A Bill of Peace to Determine Scientific Issues Recurring in Civil Litigation (with Cramton and O'Connell) in Mass Torts Working Group of Judicial Conference of the United States, Conference on Mass Torts (1999)
Judicial Independence and Democratic Accountability, 61-3 Law & Contemp. Prob. 79 (1998)
Restoring Vitality to State and Local Politics: Correcting the Excessive Independence of the Supreme Court, 50 Ala. L. Rev. 397 (1999)
Virtuelles Ziviverfarhren in den USA: Ein Besuch in John Bunyans Himmlischer Statt in ZZZ International (Spring 1999)
Recent Efforts to Change Discovery Rules: Do They Advance the Purposes of Discovery? (Roscoe Pound Foundation, 1999) also to be published by Kansas J. of Law & Pub. Policy
Lawyers Amid the Redemption of the South, 4 Roger Williams L. Rev. 21 (1999)
Teaching Civil Procedure: A Retrospective View, 50 J. Leg. Ed. --- (1999) also to be published as Civil Procedure in the Canon, in The Canons of Legal Education (Jack Balkin & Sanford Levinson eds, New York University Press, 2000)
Tanking the Rankings: Thoughts on Law Schools Rankings by The Media (The American Lawyer, April 2000)
A True Confession, 3 Alibi 19 (2000)
No Substitute for Ed , 3 Alibi 20 (2000)
The Dark Side of Contract Law, 36-5 Trial 73 (May 2000)

Manuscripts Awaiting Publication

Big Money in Texas Judicial Elections: The Sickness and Its Remedies, 52 SMU L. Rev. --- (1999)
The Obsolescence of the United States Court of Appeals - J. Law & Politics ---- (1999)
Virtual Arbitration, --- Ohio State J. Disp. Res. --- (2000)
A Mother's Day Eulogy for Margaret Walker Wythe, 3 Green Bag 2d. - (2000) (with Kelley)
Imperialism and Evangelism in American Law: 1893-1919 (no publisher yet)
Tocqueville's Aristocracy in Minnesota (to be published by William Mitchell College of Law, 2000)
Appeals (Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, 2001 ed)
Two Letters to Judge Eaton (forthcoming Court Review)
A. Leon Higginbotham, -- N. C. Central L. Rev. ---

Activities

Temporary Academic Appointments

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Univ. of Missouri, Summer, 1959
Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern Univ, Summer 1962
Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Univ. of Minnesota, Summer 1964
Visiting Professor of Law, Univ. of Michigan, Spring 1965
Visiting Professor of Law, Southern Methodist Univ, Summer 1968
Scholar in Residence, Centro de Intercultural Documentacion, Cuernavaca MX, December, 1969
Scholar in Residence, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Spring, 1970
Walter E. Meyer Research Professor, Columbia Univ School of Law, 1972-73
Visiting Professor of Law, Univ of Texas, Summer, 1974
Visiting Professor of Law, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, Spring 1975
Visiting Professor, Program in American Law, Jilin University, Changchun, China July, 1985
Duke Institute in Transnational Law, Holte, Denmark, July, 1987
Visiting Professor of Law, Univ of Michigan, Summer, 1988
Visiting Professor of Law, Univ of California, Fall, 1988
Visiting Professor of Law, Univ of Texas, Spring, 1989
Simon J Guggenheim Research Scholar, 1990
Scholar in Residence, University of Tokyo, Spring, 1990
Duke Institute in Transnational Law, Brussels, Summer 1992
Resident Fellow, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Spring 1994
Wallace Fujiyama Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Hawai'i, Spring 1995
Visiting Professor of Law, Albert Ludwigs Universitat Freiburg, Spring 2000

Compensated Public Service

Consultant, Wyoming Legislative Research Bureau (re Uniform Commercial Code), 1958-60
Consultant, Administrative Conference of the United States, 1970-73
Commission Chair, United States Dist Court for the Western District of Michigan, In re Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, 1971
Consultant, Alabama Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules, 1972-73
Consultant, Office of Economic Opportunity re funding of Antioch School of Law, 1975
Commission Chair, United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, United States v. 2970 Acres (Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore), 1975
Director, Michigan Judicial Planning Committee, Sup. Ct. of Michigan, 1977-78
Reporter, Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1985-92
Co-Reporter, Century Fund — Citizens for Independent Courts 1998-1999

Services to Professional Organizations (AALS, ALI, and ABA)

AALS Committee on Curriculum, 1962-63
Elected Member, American Law Institute, 1966-1991; Life Membersince 1991
Director, American Bar Foundation Study of the United States Courts of Appeals, 1966-68
Director, Association of American Law Schools Project for the Study of the Law Curriculum, 1968-71
Chairman, Committee on Civil Rights and Responsibilities, A.B.A. Section on Individual Rights, 1968-72
ABA-AALS Inspection Team, Rutgers Univ - Newark, 1971
Board of Editors, Journal of Legal Education, 1971-73
House of Delegates, Assn. of American Law Schools, 1971-75
Consultant, AALS re Law Books Recommended for Libraries, 1973-74
Examiner, Multi-State Bar Examination on Civil Procedure, National Conference of Bar Examiners, 1974-75
AALS, Special Investigator, California Western Law School, San Diego, 1976
Chairman, Accreditation Committee, Association of American Law Schools 1976-78, 1980-81
AALS Investigator, Academic Freedom at the Univ of South Carolina, 1977
AALS Special Committee on Federal Aid to Legal Education, 1979
Executive Committee, Association of American Law Schools, 1984-86
Board of Directors, Council on Legal Education Exchange with China, 1984-1991
Elected Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 1985-1995; Life Member since 1995
Membership Requirements Review Committee, Association of American Law Schools, 1986-88
ALI-ABA CLE Faculty, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1992, 1993
ABA-AALS Inspection Team, Stanford University, May, 1987
ABA Section on Tort and Insurance Law, Task Force on Cost and Delay in Tort Litigation, 1988-89
ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Committee on Law School Architecture, 1988-89
Chair, ABA Section on Judicial Administration, Lawyers Conference Committee on Private Dispute Resolution, 1988-90
ABA-AALS Inspection Team, University of Virginia, March 1989
ABA Committee to Plan National Conference on Judicial Independence and Accountability, Philadelphia, 1998
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, May 2000

Pro Bono Professional Services

AAUP Counsel, Felch v. Findlay College, Ohio Court of Appeals, 1964
Counsel, City of Columbus v. Miqdadi, Municipal Ct, 1964
Univ. Activities Committee Counsel, People v. Cast of Dionysius '69, Washtenaw Cty. Circuit Ct., 1969
ACLU Counsel, Milford v. Beyer Hospital, Supreme Ct. of Michigan, 1969
AAUP Counsel, Fleming v. Marygrove College of Detroit, 1970
AAUP Counsel, Prof. Robert E. Moyers, Univ. of Michigan School of Dentistry, 1970-76
ACLU Counsel, Church v. Bd. of Ed. of Saline, E.D. Mich. 1970
ACLU Counsel, Campbell v. Bd. of Ed. of Grass Lake, Jackson Cty. Circuit Court, 1971
Consultant, Commission on Revision of Federal Court Appellate System, 1973-75
Detroit Public Schools, Milliken v. Bradley, US Supreme Court, 1977
Consultant, National Center for State Courts, Education Project, 1979-81
General Editor, Law and Contemporary Problems, 1980-84
Consultant, National Institute of Justice, Appellate Procedure, 1980-81
Fourth Circuit Conference Program Committee, 1982-85
Private Adjudication Center, Inc. Duke University
Executive Committee, Board of Directors, 1983-
Executive Director, 1988
President, 1989-1994
Chair of Board, 1995-
Consultant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1986, 1996
Consultant, Philippine Sugar Administration re claims against Marcos administrators, 1986-87
Honorary Board of Advisors, China Business Association, 1987-1989
Editorial Board, Alternatives, Center for Public Resources, 1991-
Consultant, Department of State, re Treaty on Judgments, 1992-95
Member, Advisory Board, Texas Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution, 1993-96
Amicus Brief, Duffield v. Robertson Stephens & Co. 9th Cir, 1997
Consultant, Commission on the Structure of the Courts of Appeals, March 1998
Consultant, Judicial Conference, Committee on Mass Torts, May 1998
Consultant, North Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee, March 1999
Consultant, Durham County re merger with city, 1999
Amicus Brief, Vermont v. Bank of Boston. Sup Ct. Vt, 1999
Consultant, Public Citizen Litigation Group, re Texas Campaign Finance Litigation, 1999
Member, National Academy of Science Panel on Science, Technology and Law, 2000-2003

University and AAUP Service

Chairman, AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom, Indiana Univ, 1961-62
Committee A, American Association of University Professors, 1965-66
Committee on State Legislation Affecting Academic Freedom, AAUP, 1966-70
AAUP Chapter Executive Committee, Univ. of Michigan, 1968-72
Chairman, University of Michigan Civil Liberties Board, 1968-71
AAUP Investigator, Academic Freedom at University of Mississippi, 1969
Chairman, University of Michigan Board of Inquiry, 1970 Student "Black Action" Riot
AAUP Committee on Discrimination in Higher Education, 1971-72
Consultant, University of Hawaii (re Law School), Honolulu, 1972
Consultant, Sangamon State University, Springfield IL (re paralegal program), 1973
Consultant, Pennsylvania State Univ., State College PA (re law school), 1974
President, AAUP Chapter, University of Michigan, 1977-78
Academic Council, Duke University 1989-1991, 1993, 1994
Founding Member, Duke Chapter, National Association of Scholars, 1990-
Consultant, Michigan State University re acqusition of Detroit College of Law, 1994
Consultant, Yale Law School History Project, 1995
Board of Overseers' Law School Visiting Committee, Harvard University, 1996-
Chair, Dean Search Committee, Duke University 1999

Non-Professional Community Service

Trustee, Ivinson Home for Children, Laramie, 1959-60
Precinct Captain, Democratic Party of Monroe County, Indiana, 1960-62
Executive Committee, Northwest Area Council on Human Relations, Columbus, 1963-64
Precinct Captain, Franklin County (Ohio) Democratic Party, 1964
Board of Directors, ACLU of Washtenaw County, 1968-70
Chairman, ACLU Schools Committee for SE Michigan, 1968-72
Elected Trustee, Ann Arbor Board of Education, 1970-73
Elected Delegate, Democratic Party of Washtenaw County, 1972
Board of Directors, ACLU of Michigan, 1970-72
Board of Directors, Durham Public Education Network, 1993-1997
Mentor, Lakewood School, Durham, 1996-98

Prepared Addresses

Conference of Western Law Schools, Seattle, April 1959
Wyoming Bankers Association, Riverton, August 1959re UCC
Wyoming Chamber of Commerce, Casper, April 1960re UCC
Wyoming Truckers' Association, Casper, May 1960re UCC
Wyoming Cattlemen's Association, Cheyenne, July 1960re UCC
Wyoming Bankers Association, Jackson, August 1960re UCC
Wyoming Bar Association, Laramie, April 1961re UCC
Ohio House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Columbus (re speaker ban legislation), May 1963
Minnesota Bar Association Section on Corporate Law, St. Paul, July 1964re UCC
A.A.U.P. Ohio Conference, Marietta College, Marietta, November 1964re speaker bans
Phi Alpha Delta Annual Conference, Columbus, November 1964
Michigan Tax Assessors, Ann Arbor, October 1967
Democratic Women of Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor (re judicial selection), October l967
I.C.L.E., Ann Arbor, (re discovery), November 1967
Judiciary Committee, US House of Representatives, August 1968
Americans for Democratic Action, Ann Arbor, October 1968
Ford Foundation Conference, Bogota, December, 1968
A.B.A. Section on Legal Education, Los Angeles, February, 1969
Michigan School Board Attorneys, Ann Arbor, April 1969
Democratic Party of Washtenaw County, Ann Arbor, June, 1969
Roscoe Pound Foundation Conference on Appellate Review, Boston , July 1969
AALS Program for Novice Law Teachers, Chapel Hill NC, August 1969
Centro de Intercultural Documentacion, Cuernavaca, MX December 1969
Universidad de Externado, Bogota, March 1970
Washtenaw County ACLU, Ann Arbor, May, 1970
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, May, 1970
Siena Heights College, Adrian MI, April 1970
Michigan Appellate Judges Conference, Traverse City, July 1970
A.B.A. Appellate Judges Conferences, St. Louis, August 1970
Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Ann Arbor, August 1970
University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, November 1970
I.C.L.E., Lansing, November 1970 (re administrative procedure)
I.C.L.E., Detroit, November 1970 (re administrative procedure),
University of Southern California Law School, Los Angeles, November 1970
Toledo Bar Association, Toledo, January 1971 (re discovery)
Columbia University School of Law, New York, March, 1971
New York University School of Law, New York, March 1971
Wayne State University, Detroit, March 1971
Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, May, 1971
Ann Arbor PTO, Ann Arbor, September 1971
Mott Lecture Series, Flint, October 1971
Univ. of Michigan School of Education, Ann Arbor, October 1971
Michigan State Board of Education Conference, Olivet, October 1971
Michigan State University, Lansing, November, 1971
Catholic University of America, Washington DC, January 1972
Miller Lecture, University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, February, 1972
University of Denver, Denver, July, 1972
The Conference of Chief Justices, Seattle, August 1972
Judiciary Committee, US House of Representatives, August 1972
A.B.A. Special Committee on Specialization, New Orleans, September, 1972
National Tax Association, Washington DC, October 1972
A.A.L.S. Section on Constitutional Law, New York, December 1972
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, February 1973
National Education Finance Conference, Atlanta, April, 1973
The Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference, Hot Springs VA., June 1973
Indiana University, Bloomington, November 1973
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, April 1974
University of Denver, Denver, June, 1974
Alabama Bar Association, Birmingham, July 1974
Federal Bar Association, Detroit, March 1974
University of Michigan Program on Values, Ann Arbor, October, 1974
Commission on Federal Appellate Court Reform, St. Louis, May 1975
Sixth Circuit Conference, Mackinac Island MI, July 1975
I.C.L.E., Ann Arbor, October, 1975
Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Spokane, July 1976
Jackson Community College, Jackson MI, September 1976
New York University Law School, New York, December, 1976
Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, Toronto, February 1977
Society of American Law Teachers, Tiburon CA, February 1977
Washington Appellate Judges' Conference, Union WA, March 1977
Sixth Circuit Conference, Louisville, May l977
A.B.A. Appellate Judges Seminar, Williamsburg, May 1977
A.B.A. Appellate Judges Conference, Chicago, August 1977
Texas Appellate Judges Conference, El Paso, September 1977
A.A.L.S. Plenary Session, New Orleans, December 1977
The Conference of Chief Justices, New Orleans, February 1978
Institute for Law and Economics, Miami, March 1978
Ohio Appellate Judges Conference, Dayton, May 1978
Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference, Brainerd MN, August 1978
IBEX Conference with Soviet Lawyers, New York, October 1978
North Carolina Trial Lawyers Association, Greensboro, October 1978
A.A.L.S. Plenary Session, Chicago, December, 1978
Arizona Bar Conference on Discovery Rules, Phoenix, February 1979
Federal Judicial Center Appellate Conference, Los Angeles, March 1979
Federal Judicial Center Appellate Conference, Atlanta, April 1979
Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference, Hot Springs, VA, August 1979
Law School Admission Council, Wentworth NH, October 1979
National Humanities Center, RTP, February, 1980
A.B.A. Appellate Judges Conference, Philadelphia, March 1980
Illinois Bar Association Conference, Allerton House, April 1980
F.J.C. Training Session for Newly Appointed Federal Judges, D.C., March 1980
A.A.L.S. Conference on Teaching Civil Procedure, Ithaca NY, June 1980
ALI-ABA Conference on Professional Competence, Houston, December 1980
A.A.L.S. Section on Civil Procedure, San Antonio, January 1981
Second Circuit Conference, Buck Hill Falls PA, May 1981
North Carolina Bar Association, Raleigh, June, 1981
University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, October 1981
A.B.A. Workshop for New Deans, Chicago, February 1982
Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference, Greenbrier WV, July 1982
University of Northern Kentucky, Covington, September 1982
Homer Ferguson Conference on Military Law, Washington DC, May 1983
Law School Admission Council, St. Petersburg FL, June, 1983
Conference of Southeastern Law Schools, Interlachen FL, August 1983
North Carolina Bar Conference on Alternative Dispute Resolution, Nov. 1983
House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administration of Justice, November 1983
A.A.L.S. Plenary Session, San Francisco CA, January 1984
A.B.A. Section on Legal Education, Las Vegas NV, February 1984
A.B.A. Conference on Law in the Year 2000, Sacramento, May 1984
Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., May 1984
Peoples' University, Beijing, China, May, 1984
Hangzhou University, Hangzhou, China, May, 1984
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, June 1984
Southeastern Association of Law Librarians, Durham, October 1984
A.A.L.S. Plenary Session, Washington DC, January, 1985
Federal Judicial Center Conference, Baltimore, February 1985
L&CP Conference, Economists on the Bench, Durham, April 1985
University of Akron, Akron, May 1985
Appellate Judges' Course, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, June 1985
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, June 1985
Fudan University, Shanghai, June 1985
Kyoto University, Kyoto, July 1985
Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville VA, October 1985
A.A.L.S. Section on Teaching Methods, New Orleans, January 1986
Federal Judicial Center Conference for 11th Circuit, Clearwater FL, February 1986
ALI-ABA Conference on Civil Procedure, Dallas, February, 1986
AALS Conference on Teaching Jurisprudence, Philadelphia, March 1986
Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference, Houston, May 1986
Brookings Institution, Washington DC, October 1986
University of South Carolina Law School, Columbia SC, October, 1986
Philippine Sugar Commission, Manila, December 1986,
Bagolod, Negros, PI, December, 1986
American College of Trial Lawyers, Boca Raton FL, February 1987
US Judicial Conference Seminar for Appellate Staff, Charleston SC, June 1987
Judiciary Committee, United States Senate, June 1987 (re trial by jury)
ALI-ABA Conference on Civil Procedure, Charleston SC, October 1987
House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Adminstration of Justice, October 1987
Conference on Academic Freedom, University of Texas, Austin, October 1987
Federal Judicial Conference Seminar on Local Rules, Boston College, Newton MA, November 1987
ABA Section on Litigation, Casa de Campo, Dominican Rep, Jan. 1988
AALS Section on Civil Procedure, Miami Beach FL, Jan. 1988
Conference on 50th Anniversary of FRCP, Univ of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN, February 1988
Center for Public Resources Annual Meeting, Charleston SC, March 1988
Memorial Service for David F. Cavers, Harvard University, April 1988
Fourth Circuit Conference, Greenbrier WV, July 1988
Committee for Legal Education on Satellite Network & P-A-C, New York,July, 1988
Ninth Circuit Conference, Couer d'Alene ID, August 1988
Conference on Japan-US Legal Relations, Tokyo, August 1988
Conference on 50th Anniversary of FRCP, Northeastern Univ, Boston, October 1988
Federal Judicial Center Bicentennial Conference for Federal Appellate Judges, October, 1988
Sibley Lecture, University of Georgia, November, 1988
A.B.A. Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, Denver, February, 1989
Wythe Lecture, College of William & Mary, February 1989
Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, Joint Conference, New Orleans, June 1989
Sixth Circuit Conference, Lexington KY, June 1989
Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, September 1989
Cannon Lecture, University of Toledo, October 1989
Vinson Lecture, Mercer University, Macon GA, October 1989
University of Chicago, October 1989
A. A. L. S. Workshop on Faculty Appointments and Promotions, San Francisco, January 1990
A. A. L. S. Section on Civil Procedure, San Francisco, January 1990
University of Tokyo, March and April, 1990
Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, May, 1990
Doshisha University, Kyoto, May, 1990
Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Tsukuba University, Tokyo, May, 1990
Association for Japanese American Legal Studies, Tokyo, May, 1990
Chuo University, Tokyo, May, 1990
Gokushuen University, Tokyo, May, 1990
Conference on the Revisal of Civil Procedure Codes, Judicial Yuan, Taipeh, May, 1990
Judicial Officials' Training Institute, Taipeh, May, 1990
A. B. A. Section on Judicial Administration, ADR Committee, Chicago, August, 1990
A. B. A. Section on Litigation, Chicago, August, 1990
Federal Courts Committee, Assn. of the Bar of the City of New York, October 1990
New York University Conference on Rule 11, New York, November, 1990
Graylin IV Conference on Legal Research, Winston-Salem, November 1990
North Carolina Bar Association CLE Program, Greensboro, December 1990
ALI-ABA Closed Circuit Seminar on Federal Procedure, Washington, April, 1991
American Judicature Society, Atlanta, August, 1991
ABA Commission on Opportunities for Minorities, Atlanta, August, 1991
New Jersey State Bar, New Brunswick NJ, January 1992
ALI-ABA Program on Federal Practice, Orlando, January, 1992
Louis Caplan Lecture, University of Pittsburgh, March 1992
ABA Section on Legal Education Conference on Academic Freedom in Legal Education, Tulane University, New Orleans, April 1992
National Conference on State-Federal Judicial Relations, National Center for State Courts, Orlando, April 1992
Judicial Conference for the Eleventh Circuit, Hilton Head SC, May 1992
University of Constanz, Constanz, June, 1992
University of Muenster, Muenster, July, 1992
Judicial Conference for the Tenth Circuit, Durango CO, July 1992
ABA Section on Torts and Insurance, San Francisco, August, 1992
University of Tokyo Conference on International Litigation, Tokyo, August 1992
Centennial of Hague Conference on Private International Law, Durham, October 1992
Association of American Law Schools Workshop on Constitutional Law, San Francisco, January 1993
Association of American Law Schools Special Program on Tenure Review, San Francisco, January 1993
ALI-ABA Program on Federal Practice, New York January 1993
Washington, May, 1993
250th Anniversary of Thomas Jefferson, College of William and Mary, April 1993
Founding Ceremony, Toin University Faculty of Law, Yokohama, June 1993
Stevens Lecture, University of Kansas, Lawrence, February 1994
ABA Section on Litigation Program on Revolutionary Changes in Practice, New York, February 1994
Albert Ludwigs Universitat - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, April, 1994
Conference on Commercial International Arbitration in the Pacific Region, Durham, June 1994
Southeastern Conference of Law Schools, Kiowa SC, July 1994
ABA Section on Litigation Program on New Rules, August 1994
Administrative Law Judges Conference, Hershey PA, September 1994
Tucker Lecture, Washington and Lee University Law School, September, 1994
University of North Carolina Law School, Chapel Hill, October 1994
University of Michigan Law School, December, 1994
University of Hawai'i Law Alumni Assn, Honolulu, February 1995
Hawai'i Bar Association Sections on Dispute Resolution and Internation Law, Honolulu, March 1995
Southwestern Legal Foundation Conference on Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Dallas, March 1995
Hawai'i Social Science Association, Honolulu, April, 1995
Institute on Judicial Administration Conference on Mass Tort Litigation, New York University, New York, April 1995
Seminar on Drug Policy, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, April, 1995
AALS Workshop on Civil Procedure, Washington, July, 1995
Van Arsdale Lecture, University of Illinois College of Law, September, 1995
Maurice Rosenberg Memorial Service, New York, October, 1995
AALS Workshop on Alternative Dispute Resolution, San Antonio, January, 1996
NYU Conference on Comparative Civil Procedure, Florence, Italy, May, 1996
Melvin G. Shimm Retirement, Durham, June 1996
Krinock Lecture, Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, October, 1996
Federalist Society re Affirmative Action, Durham, November, 1996
Conference on Class Actions at the Crossroads, University of Arizona, December, 1996
Civil Rules Committee Conference on Discovery, San Francisco, January, 1997
Abraham Lincoln Society, Springfield IL, February, 1997
ABA Conference on Implementing Civil Justice Reform Act, University of Alabama, March, 1997
Legislative Conference re Federal Arbitration Act, McGeorge College of Law, Sacramento, April, 1997
Civil Rules Committee Conference on Discovery, Boston, September 1997
Public Citizen Litigation Conference on Campaign Finance, Washington, 1997
National Academy of Sciences Conference in Issues in Law, Science, and Technology, Washington, 1997
University of Kansas Conference Honoring Robert Casad, Lawrence, 1997
Daniel J. Meador Lecture, University of Alabama, 1998
Ninth Circuit Commission, Washington, March, 1998
University of Arizona, ILEP Conference on Complex Cases, Tucson, April 1998
Judicial Conference Committee on Mass Torts, Philadelphia, May 1998
ABA Section on Judicial Administration, Toronto, August 1998
NYU Conference on Class Actions, New York, October 1998
Texas Supreme Court re Judicial Elections, Austin, October 1998
ABA Conference on Judicial Independence and Accountability, Philadelphia, December 1998
Roy Ray Lecture, Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, March 1999
Memorial Service for A. Leon Higginbotham, North Carolina Central University, March 1999
Roger Williams Law School, Bristol RI, April 1999
Roscoe Pound Foundation, San Francisco, July 1999
University of Kansas Business School, September 1999 (presented by R. Casad)
Ohio State University, Columbus, November 1999
AALS Civil Procedure Section, Washington, January 2000
Centennial Lecture, William Mitchell Law School, St. Paul, February 2000
ILEP Program in Complex Litigation, Naples FL, April 2000
Allen Chair Lecture, University of Richmond, Richmond, April 2000
International Association of Procedural Law, Ghent, Belgium, April 2000

SCHEDULED

Sullivan Lecture, Capital University, Columbus, January 2001

Published Letters and Interviews

New York Times, October 1968, re electoral college
Ann Arbor News, October, 1970, re Pioneer High School riot
Ann Arbor News, May, 1971, re costs of trusteeship
Detroit Free Press, March 1973, re resignation of Justice Swainson
National Shorthand Reporter, September 1978, re obsolescence of court reporting
North Carolina State Bar Quarterly, September 1978, re deanship
National Law Journal, November 1982, re Law and the River
Harvard Law Record, November 1982, re coverage of Law and The River
San Francisco Examiner, October 1988, re Univ of Calif Accreditation
Tokyo Bar Journal, August, 1992, re arbitration
Durham Herald, October 1994, re mandatory community service for students
Honolulu Advertiser, February 1995, re Hawaiian Sovereignty
Honolulu Advertiser, April, 1995, re Hawaiian Sovereignty
Hawaii Kei Lea, August 1995, re Univ of Hawaii Law School
New York Times, November 1995, re media coverage of trials
Washington Post, June 1996, re Whitewater investigation
The Economist, October 1996, re same-sex marriages
The Constitutionalist (NCBA publication), Jan 1997, unchallenged rhetoric
ABA Journal, April 1997, Rand-ly Criticized
Raleigh News & Observer, July 1997, re campaign finance
National Law Journal, October 1997, re discovery reform
Raleigh News & Observer, February 1998, re independent prosecutor
Commentary, March 1998, re campaign finance
Dallas Morning News, April 1999, re judicial campaign finance
Policy Review, Aug-Sep 1999, re impeachment

Broadcast Media

WUOM, Ann Arbor, October 1966, re local government law
WMIL, Lansing, October 1970, re school finance reform
WUOM, Ann Arbor,October 1971, re Metropolitan school desegregation
WNYC, New York, October 1972, re school finance reform
PBS, Debate on Freund Report on Supreme Court Jurisdiction, November 1972
WJR-TV, Detroit, September 1973, re Nixon impeachment
CBS, October 1979 re Proposed Nixon Library at Duke
Honolulu Public Radio, Price of Paradise, February 1995, re Sovereignty
Honolulu Public Radio, Price of Paradise, April 1995, re tort reform
KTSA, San Antonio, November 1995, re media coverage of trials