Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Scott Dodson is a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Duke Law School for the fall of 2008, where he teaches Civil Procedure. He currently holds a permanent appointment at the University of Arkansas School of Law as an Assistant Professor of Law, where he teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Jurisdiction, and Conflict of Laws.
Professor Dodson is a a scholar in the areas of civil procedure and federal jurisdiction, and he has published articles in Stanford Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, and Vanderbilt Law Review, among others. His writings have been cited by the Ninth Circuit on two separate occasions and by the Tenth Circuit. He has been a guest blogger on the Civil Procedure Prof Blog and on PrawfsBlawg, and he is a frequent commentator in various news media.
Professor Dodson graduated cum laude from Duke Law School in 2000, where he was an editor of the Duke Law Journal. He then clerked for the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis in the Eastern District of New York and began several years of litigation practice for private law firms and the federal government before his appointment to the University of Arkansas.